US 12,249,600 B2
Contact structures in RC-network components
Yohei Yamaguchi, Nagaokakyo (JP); Yasuhiro Murase, Nagaokakyo (JP); and Stéphane Bouvier, Cairon (FR)
Assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Nagaokakyo (JP)
Filed by Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Nagaokakyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,462.
Application 17/945,462 is a continuation of application No. PCT/IB2021/052529, filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20305348 (EP), filed on Mar. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0010467 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Prior Publication US 2024/0006404 A2, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. H01L 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 27/013 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An integrated RC-network component comprising:
a substrate;
a capacitor having a thin-film top electrode portion at a surface on a first side of the substrate;
an insulating layer on the thin-film top electrode portion of the capacitor;
a contact plate on the insulating layer, and
one or more bridging contacts in openings traversing the insulating layer, the bridging contacts electrically connecting the thin-film top electrode portion of the capacitor to the contact plate,
wherein the RC-network component has first and second contacts, the first contact comprising said contact plate, and a series RC circuit is present between the first and second contacts,
wherein the substrate is a low ohmic doped semiconductor substrate that makes a contribution of no more than 5% to a resistance of the RC-network component,
wherein, in a direction of a thickness of the thin-film top electrode portion of the capacitor, a length of the bridging contacts is sufficiently greater than the thickness of the thin-film top electrode portion that an equivalent series resistance of the capacitor is proportional to a sheet resistance of the thin-film top electrode portion divided by a number of the bridging contacts, and
wherein the openings have an elongated peripheral shape having an aspect ratio greater than 1:1.