Abstract: A doping method using an oxide film and a nitride film on a trench wall as a protective film to prevent the impurity from diffusing into the silicon wafer adjacent to the outer wall and to enable the formation of a substantially flat interface between the first and the second trench to provide a smooth step difference between the first trench and the second trench is disclosed. A highly integrated semiconductor device having a trench comprising a first trench having a bottom and with a second trench formed in the bottom of the first trench with an interface between the first trench and the second trench characterized by the interface between the first and the second trench being substantially flat to provide a smooth step difference between the first trench and the second trench is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a trench capacitor in a silicon wafer using a photoresist etch back process comprising sequentially depositing an oxide layer, a nitride layer and an oxide layer as a mask layer on the Si wafer and coating the mask layer with a photoresist layer is disclosed. A first pattern is formed by removing a portion of the photoresist layer and a second a mask pattern is formed by removing the exposed mask layer along the photoresist pattern, and then completely removing the photoresist. A trench is formed in the Si wafer along the second mask pattern. A thin doped oxide layer having a constant thickness is deposited outside and inside the trench. The doped oxide layer is entirely coated with a photoresist, thereby filling the trench with photoresist. The top surface of the photoresist is then planarized. The resulting photoresist coated Si wafer is baked and the photoresist deposited outside and inside the trench is selectively etched back.