US 12,266,681 B2
Capacitor device with multi-layer dielectric structure
Yu-En Jeng, Taichung (TW); Hsiang-Ku Shen, Hsinchu (TW); Cheng-Hao Hou, Hsinchu (TW); Chen-Chiu Huang, Taichung (TW); and Dian-Hau Chen, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/569,279.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/279,374, filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0154972 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H10B 12/00 (2023.01); H01L 49/02 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 28/40 (2013.01) [H10B 12/0335 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device structure, comprising:
a first insulating layer formed over a semiconductor substrate;
an interconnect structure formed in the first insulating layer;
a second insulating layer formed over the first insulating layer; and
a capacitor device embedded in the second insulating layer, comprising:
a first capacitor electrode layer electrically connected to the interconnect structure;
a capacitor insulating stack formed over the first capacitor electrode layer and comprising a plurality of first layers alternatingly stacked with a plurality of second layers, wherein a dielectric constant of the first layer is different than a dielectric constant of the second layer; and
a second capacitor electrode layer formed over the capacitor insulating stack,
wherein a lowermost first layer of the first layers is in direct contact with the first capacitor electrode layer and each of the first layers is thinner than each of the second layers;
a third insulating layer separating the interconnect structure from the first capacitor electrode layer; and
a via formed in the third insulating layer and capped by the first capacitor electrode layer, wherein the via is electrically connected between the first capacitor electrode layer and the interconnect structure.