Patents by Inventor Toshinori Morihara

Toshinori Morihara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20040219748
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. A polysilicon film and a rough-surfaced polysilicon film are formed on inter-layer insulating film including side and bottom surfaces of openings formed in inter-layer insulating film. A photoresist is formed on the rough-surfaced polysilicon film. The photoresist, the rough-surfaced polysilicon film and the polysilicon film that are located on the top surface of inter-layer insulating film are removed by the CMP method. The polysilicon film and rough-surfaced polysilicon film are etched in a predetermined atmosphere to make the position of the top end of storage nodes lower than the top surface of inter-layer insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Takashi Miyajima, Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 6756267
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. A polysilicon film and a rough-surfaced polysilicon film are formed on inter-layer insulating film including side and bottom surfaces of openings formed in inter-layer insulating film. A photoresist is formed on the rough-surfaced polysilicon film. The photoresist, the rough-surfaced polysilicon film and the polysilicon film that are located on the top surface of inter-layer insulating film are removed by the CMP method. The polysilicon film and rough-surfaced polysilicon film are etched in a predetermined atmosphere to make the position of the top end of storage nodes lower than the top surface of inter-layer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Renesas Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Takashi Miyajima, Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 6635538
    Abstract: When sidewalls (10) are formed by anisotropic etching, an insulating film (9) serves as a protective film for a major surface of a semiconductor substrate (100) and therefore prevents the major surface from suffering etching damage. That relieves an electric field concentration in a pn junction, to effectively take advantage of an LDD structure. Since a portion of the insulating film (9) extending off the sidewalls (10) is removed, there is no need for etching of the insulating film (9) when the contact holes (12) are formed and only an insulating film (11) is etched. That prevents a short circuit between main electrodes (13) and a gate electrode (7) and makes it possible to determine the spacing between the contact holes (12) narrower than the width of the gate electrode (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6597599
    Abstract: In a semiconductor memory in which memory cells where a bit line is connected with the impurity diffused area of MOS transistors are arranged in a close packed layout in order to reduce the gate capacitance and junction capacitance of the impurity diffused area of the MOS transistor, the width W1 of the active region of the MOS transistor of field pattern FL constituting the memory cell is formed narrower than the width W2 of the active region of the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano, Katsumi Dosaka, Kazutami Arimoto
  • Publication number: 20030077861
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. A polysilicon film and a rough-surfaced polysilicon film are formed on inter-layer insulating film including side and bottom surfaces of openings formed in inter-layer insulating film. A photoresist is formed on the rough-surfaced polysilicon film. The photoresist, the rough-surfaced polysilicon film and the polysilicon film that are located on the top surface of inter-layer insulating film are removed by the CMP method. The polysilicon film and rough-surfaced polysilicon film are etched in a predetermined atmosphere to make the position of the top end of storage nodes lower than the top surface of inter-layer insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Takashi Miyajima, Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 6541807
    Abstract: A storage node electrically connected to one of source/drain regions of a MOS transistor is formed along the side wall and the bottom wall of an opening provided through a silicon nitride film, a BPTEOS film and a TEOS film. The surface of this storage node is roughened. Thus, a semiconductor device having high reliability and a method of manufacturing the same are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Morihara
  • Publication number: 20030021140
    Abstract: In a semiconductor memory in which memory cells where a bit line is connected with the impurity diffused area of MOS transistors are arranged in a close packed layout in order to reduce the gate capacitance and junction capacitance of the impurity diffused area of the MOS transistor, the width W1 of the active region of the MOS transistor of field pattern FL constituting the memory cell is formed narrower than the width W2 of the active region of the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano, Katsumi Dosaka, Kazutami Arimoto
  • Publication number: 20020195669
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising: a field placement creating a field pattern in an array form by closest packing on a first conductance-type semiconductor substrate, the field pattern including a plurality of memory cells which define an active area and a device isolation region of a field effect transistor, and which are arranged in a predetermined pitch in the longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively, each memory cell having a pattern of a certain length-to-width size; a cell plate placement providing a capacitor structure between a second conductance-type diffusion region formed by an impurity implant to the active area and a cell plate electrode formed so as to cover part of the active area with a predetermined cell plate pattern through a capacitor dielectric, the cell plate pattern extending in the transverse direction with a certain length size; and a word line placement in which a word line pattern is arranged in the transverse direction of a vacant zo
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano, Kazutami Arimoto
  • Patent number: 6495418
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. A polysilicon film and a rough-surfaced polysilicon film are formed on inter-layer insulating film including side and bottom surfaces of openings formed in inter-layer insulating film. A photoresist is formed on the rough-surfaced polysilicon film. The photoresist, the rough-surfaced polysilicon film and the polysilicon film that are located on the top surface of inter-layer insulating film are removed by the CMP method. The polysilicon film and rough-surfaced polysilicon film are etched in a predetermined atmosphere to make the position of the top end of storage nodes lower than the top surface of inter-layer insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Takashi Miyajima, Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 6487105
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit having a multi level interconnect structure comprising: a first wiring connected to a transistor region formed in a semiconductor substrate; an interlayer dielectric formed on this topography; first and second contacts formed in the interlayer dielectric; and a second wiring connected electrically to the first wiring via the first and second contacts, this circuit further including switching means, connected to said first and second wirings respectively, for feeding a high potential and a low potential alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano
  • Patent number: 6459113
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising: a field placement creating a field pattern in an array form by closest packing on a first conductance-type semiconductor substrate, the field pattern including a plurality of memory cells which define an active area and a device isolation region of a field effect transistor, and which are arranged in a predetermined pitch in the longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively, each memory cell having a pattern of a certain length-to-width size; a cell plate placement providing a capacitor structure between a second conductance-type diffusion region formed by an impurity implant to the active area and a cell plate electrode formed so as to cover part of the active area with a predetermined cell plate pattern through a capacitor dielectric, the cell plate pattern extending in the transverse direction with a certain length size; and a word line placement in which a word line pattern is arranged in the transverse direction of a vacant zo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano, Kazutami Arimoto
  • Patent number: 6377483
    Abstract: Tow bit lines are arranged in each column in which memory cells are disposed. For selecting a first group sub-word line, only a sense amplifier on one sense amplifier band is activated and for selecting a second group sub-word line, only a sense amplifier on the other sense amplifier band is activated. A storage node is formed under a bit line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutami Arimoto, Hiroki Shimano, Toshinori Morihara
  • Publication number: 20020031006
    Abstract: Tow bit lines are arranged in each column in which memory cells are disposed. For selecting a first group sub-word line, only a sense amplifier on one sense amplifier band is activated and for selecting a second group sub-word line, only a sense amplifier on the other sense amplifier band is activated. A storage node is formed under a bit line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutami Arimoto, Hiroki Shimano, Toshinori Morihara
  • Publication number: 20020028550
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising: a field placement creating a field pattern in an array form by closest packing on a first conductance-type semiconductor substrate, the field pattern including a plurality of memory cells which define an active area and a device isolation region of a field effect transistor, and which are arranged in a predetermined pitch in the longitudinal and transverse directions, respectively, each memory cell having a pattern of a certain length-to-width size; a cell plate placement providing a capacitor structure between a second conductance-type diffusion region formed by an impurity implant to the active area and a cell plate electrode formed so as to cover part of the active area with a predetermined cell plate pattern through a capacitor dielectric, the cell plate pattern extending in the transverse direction with a certain length size; and a word line placement in which a word line pattern is arranged in the transverse direction of a vacant zo
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano, Kazutami Arimoto
  • Publication number: 20020019089
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. A polysilicon film and a rough-surfaced polysilicon film are formed on inter-layer insulating film including side and bottom surfaces of openings formed in inter-layer insulating film. A photoresist is formed on the rough-surfaced polysilicon film. The photoresist, the rough-surfaced polysilicon film and the polysilicon film that are located on the top surface of inter-layer insulating film are removed by the CMP method. The polysilicon film and rough-surfaced polysilicon film are etched in a predetermined atmosphere to make the position of the top end of storage nodes lower than the top surface of inter-layer insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Shimizu, Takashi Miyajima, Toshinori Morihara
  • Publication number: 20010055219
    Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit having a multi level interconnect structure comprising: a first wiring connected to a transistor region formed in a semiconductor substrate; an interlayer dielectric formed on this topography; first and second contacts formed in the interlayer dielectric; and a second wiring connected electrically to the first wiring via the first and second contacts, this circuit further including switching means, connected to said first and second wirings respectively, for feeding a high potential and a low potential alternately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Hiroki Shimano
  • Patent number: 6271564
    Abstract: When sidewalls (10) are formed by anisotropic etching, an insulating film (9) serves as a protective film for a major surface of a semiconductor substrate (100) and therefore prevents the major surface from suffering etching damage. That relieves an electric field concentration in a pn junction, to effectively take advantage of an LDD structure. Since a portion of the insulating film (9) extending off the sidewalls (10) is removed, there is no need for etching of the insulating film (9) when the contact holes (12) are formed and only an insulating film (11) is etched. That prevents a short circuit between main electrodes (13) and a gate electrode (7) and makes it possible to determine the spacing between the contact holes (12) narrower than the width of the gate electrode (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshinori Morihara, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5888854
    Abstract: A dielectric layer is formed on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate. A silicon layer is formed on dielectric layer. MOS transistors are formed in silicon layer and include impurity regions in a semiconductor layer. A capacitor is formed by cooperation of the impurity region, the dielectric layer, and the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer also serves as an insulating film of an SOI structure. Thus, a semiconductor memory device which achieves high performance and allows high integration can easily be obtained in a DRAM having an SOI structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 5495439
    Abstract: A dielectric layer is formed on a main surface of a semiconductor substrate. A silicon layer is formed on dielectric layer. MOS transistors are formed in the silicon layer and include impurity regions in a semiconductor layer. A capacitor is formed by cooperation of the impurity region, the dielectric layer, and the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer also serves as an insulating film of an SOI structure. Thus, a semiconductor memory device which achieves high performance and allows high integration can easily be obtained in a DRAM having an SOI structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Morihara
  • Patent number: 5404038
    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing thereof has an opening of circular or oval columnar configuration in an active layer where a gate electrode is formed in self-alignment in a sidewall-spacer manner. The channel region has a curved surface so that a relatively large area can be ensured where the width of a gate electrode is constant to suppress the increase of threshold voltage due to narrow channel effect in accordance with miniaturization. Therefore, a vertical type MOS field effect transistor can be formed without degradation in transistor characteristic in accordance with miniaturization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Morihara