Patents Examined by T. Ho
  • Patent number: 6476492
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device, which comprises a capacitor component comprising a first electrode, an oxide film with a high dielectric constant or ferroelectricity in contact with the first electrode and a second electrode in contact with the oxide film, as formed in this order, on one principal side of a silicon substrate with a metal wiring layer formed thereon, such problems as breaking of tungsten interconnect, lowering of reliability, lowering of yield, etc. of semi-conductor devices can be solved by using molybdenum-containing tungsten as the material of metal interconnect layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomio Iwasaki, Hideo Miura, Takashi Nakajima, Hiroyuki Ohta, Shinji Nishihara, Masashi Sahara