US20070001206A1 - Capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen.
- DRAMs increase in memory cell density, there is a continuing challenge to maintain sufficiently high storage capacitance despite decreasing cell area. Additionally, there is a continuing goal to further decrease cell area.
- One principal way of increasing cell capacitance is through cell structure techniques. Such techniques include three-dimensional cell capacitors, such as trenched or stacked capacitors. Yet as feature size continues to become smaller and smaller, development of improved materials for cell dielectrics as well as the cell structure are important.
- the feature size of 256 Mb DRAMs and beyond will be on the order of 0.25 micron or less, and conventional dielectrics such as SiO 2 and Si 3 N 4 might not be suitable because of small dielectric constants.
- Highly integrated memory devices such as 256 Mbit DRAMs, are expected to require a very thin dielectric film for the 3-dimensional capacitor of cylindrically stacked or trench structures.
- the capacitor dielectric film thickness will be below 2.5 nm of SiO 2 equivalent thickness.
- Insulating inorganic metal oxide materials are commonly referred to as “high k” materials due to their high dielectric constants, which make them attractive as dielectric materials in capacitors, for example for high density DRAMs and non-volatile memories.
- “high k” means a material having a dielectric constant of at least 11.
- Such materials include tantalum pentoxide, barium strontium titanate, strontium titanate, barium titanate, lead zirconium titanate and strontium bismuth titanate. Using such materials enables the creation of much smaller and simpler capacitor structures for a given stored charge requirement, enabling the packing density, dictated by future circuit design.
- high k dielectric materials have better current leakage characteristics in capacitors than other high k dielectric materials.
- aspects of a high k material which might be modified or tailored to achieve a highest capacitor dielectric constant possible will unfortunately also tend to hurt the leakage characteristics (i.e., increase current leakage).
- one class of high k capacitor dielectric materials includes metal oxides having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, such as the barium strontium titanate, lead zirconium titanate, and strontium bismuth titanate referred to above.
- barium strontium titanate it is found that increasing titanium concentration as compared to barium and/or strontium results in improved leakage characteristics, but decreases the dielectric constant.
- capacitance can be increased by increasing the concentration of barium and/or strontium, but unfortunately at the expense of increasing leakage.
- absence of titanium in the oxide lattice creates a metal vacancy in such multimetal titanates which can increase the dielectric constant, but unfortunately also increases the current leakage.
- FIG. 1 There illustrated is a semiconductor wafer fragment 10 comprising a bulk monocrystalline silicon substrate 12 .
- semiconductor substrate or “semiconductive substrate” is defined to mean any construction comprising semiconductive material, including, but not limited to, bulk semiconductive materials such as a semiconductive wafer (either alone or in assemblies comprising other materials thereon), and semiconductive material layers (either alone or in assemblies comprising other materials).
- substrate refers to any supporting structure, including, but not limited to, the semiconductive substrates described above.
- a conductive diffusion region 14 is formed within substrate 12 .
- An insulating dielectric layer 16 is formed over substrate 12 , and includes an opening 18 formed therein to diffusion region 14 . Opening 18 is filled with a suitable conductive material 20 , for example conductively doped polysilicon or a metal such as tungsten. Barrier, silicide or other layers might also of course be utilized, but are not otherwise described.
- a capacitor construction 22 is formed outwardly of insulating dielectric layer 16 and in electrical connection with conductive plugging material 20 .
- Such comprises an inner capacitor electrode 24 , an outer capacitor electrode 26 , and a capacitor dielectric region 25 sandwiched therebetween.
- Capacitor dielectric region 25 comprises a composite of three layers 26 , 27 and 28 .
- Region 27 comprises a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, such as barium strontium titanate, fabricated to provide a stoichiometry which maximizes the dielectric constant of the material.
- layers 26 and 28 are received outwardly of layer 27 and comprise a material such as Si 3 N 4 which exhibits extremely low current leakage.
- Si 3 N 4 has a considerably lower dielectric constant than the metal oxides having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. Such adversely reduces the overall dielectric constant, and accordingly the capacitive effect of capacitor dielectric region 25 .
- the invention comprises capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen.
- a capacitor includes first and second conductive electrodes having a high k capacitor dielectric region positioned therebetween.
- the high k capacitor dielectric region includes a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen.
- the layer has varying stoichiometry across its thickness.
- the layer includes an inner region, a middle region, and an outer region. The middle region has a different stoichiometry than both the inner and outer regions.
- FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a semiconductor wafer fragment processed in accordance with the prior art, as discussed in the “Background” section above.
- FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic sectional view of a semiconductor wafer fragment in accordance with the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view of a chemical vapor deposition chamber utilized in accordance with an aspect of the invention.
- FIG. 2 depicts a wafer fragment 30 comprising a capacitor 32 having first and second electrodes 24 and 26 .
- Example and preferred materials for electrodes 24 and 26 include conductively doped polysilicon, conductively doped hemispherical grain polysilicon, platinum, ruthenium, ruthenium oxides, iridium, iridium oxides, palladium, tungsten, tungsten nitride, tantalum nitride, titanium nitride, titanium oxygen nitride, and the like.
- capacitor dielectric region 35 is positioned between first capacitor electrode 24 and second capacitor electrode 26 .
- Capacitor dielectric region 35 comprises a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, for example those materials described above. Most preferably and as shown, capacitor dielectric region 35 consists essentially of such layer, meaning no other layers are received intermediate first electrode 24 and second electrode 26 which meaningfully impact the operation or capacitance of capacitor 32 .
- the metal oxide layer having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen has varying stoichiometry across its thickness. In other words, the stoichiometry in such layer is not substantially constant throughout the layer.
- a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen.
- One of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a first current leakage potential, while another of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a second current leakage potential which is greater than the first current leakage potential.
- a titanate such as barium strontium titanate. Titanium is an example of one metal which when bonded with oxygen has a lower current leakage potential than either barium or strontium when bonded with oxygen.
- the layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal bonded with oxygen which is more proximate at least one of the first and second electrodes than another portion which is more proximate a center of the layer.
- capacitor 32 depicts capacitor dielectric region and layer 35 as comprising an inner region 36 , a middle region 38 , and an outer region 40 .
- Regions 36 and 40 most preferably constitute portions which are fabricated to have a greater concentration of the one metal, in this example titanium, bonded with oxygen than portion 38 . Accordingly, regions 40 and 36 are more proximate at least one of the first and second electrodes than is portion 38 more proximate a center of the layer within capacitor dielectric region 35 .
- the layer or region 35 in this example comprises portions 36 and 40 having a greater concentration of the one metal bonded with oxygen more proximate both the first and second electrodes than the another portion 38 more proximate the center of the layer of capacitor dielectric region 35 .
- region 38 has a greater concentration of the another of the metals (i.e., a greater concentration of one or both of barium and strontium) bonded with oxygen than portions 36 and 40 .
- at least one of portions 36 and 40 contacts one of the first and second electrodes. As shown, portion 36 contacts electrode 24 , while portion 40 contacts electrode 26 . Regions 36 , 38 and 40 can be fabricated to be the same thickness or different relative thicknesses.
- regions 36 and 40 can be fabricated to comprise essentially the same stoichiometry or different stoichiometries. Accordingly, FIG. 2 depicts but one example where the high k capacitor dielectric region includes a layer where a middle region has a different stoichiometry than both inner and outer regions.
- a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen produces a first material having a first current leakage potential. Further, absence of the one metal in the oxide creates a vacancy and a second material having a second current leakage potential which is greater than the first current leakage potential.
- An example would be a multiple metal component titanate, such as barium strontium titanate, where the one metal comprises titanium.
- the metal oxide layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the first material which is more proximate at least one of the first and second electrodes than another portion which is more proximate a center of the layer.
- FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary construction, whereby at least one of portions 36 and 40 can be fabricated to have a greater concentration of the first material than another portion 38 .
- titanium constitutes a metal in such material which, when bonded with oxygen, produces greater current leakage potential or resistance than when a vacancy is created in the oxide by absence of the titanium atoms. Accordingly, barium and strontium quantity could essentially be constant throughout the layer of capacitor dielectric region 35 , with only the quantity of titanium varying relative to such regions such a described in the preferred example immediately above.
- a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a first dielectric constant. Another of the metals of such layer when bonded with oxygen has a second dielectric constant which is less than the first dielectric constant.
- the layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal bonded with oxygen more proximate a center of the layer than another portion more proximate either of the first and second electrodes.
- barium strontium titanate constitutes one such material.
- barium and strontium in such material constitutes metals which, when bonded with oxygen, produce a first dielectric constant which is greater than when titanium is bonded with oxygen.
- region 38 constitutes the one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal (i.e., one or both of barium and strontium) bonded with oxygen which is more proximate a center of the layer.
- a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen produces a first material having a first dielectric constant. Absence of the one metal in the oxide creates a vacancy, and a second material having a second dielectric constant which is less than the first dielectric constant.
- the metal oxide layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the first material which is more proximate a center of the layer than another portion which is more proximate either of the first and second electrodes.
- barium and strontium are example metals whose absence in the lattice when producing vacancies results in a dielectric constant which is less than when present.
- the one metal comprises at least one of barium and strontium.
- An exemplary construction encompassing the same is again as depicted in FIG. 2 .
- FIG. 3 depicts an exemplary process of depositing a dielectric layer comprising metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen in accordance with an aspect of the invention.
- a chemical vapor deposition chamber 70 has a substrate 72 upon which deposition is desired positioned therein.
- Exemplary multiple gas inlets 76 , 77 , 78 and 80 are depicted schematically as extending to chamber 70 . Fewer or more gas inlets could, of course, be provided. Further, gases could be mixed further upstream of the schematic depicted by FIG. 3 , and flowed as mixtures or combinations relative to one or more inlets.
- a process for depositing (Ba,Sr) TiO 3 includes utilizing precursors of Ba(DPM) 2 , Sr(DPM) 2 and Ti(OC 3 H 7 ) 4 , O 2 at 0.5 Torr and 410° C., where “DPM” denotes “dipivaloylmethanato”.
- DPM denotes “dipivaloylmethanato”.
- one of each of these gases could be flowed from the respective inlets 76 , 77 , 78 and 80 .
- the flow of at least one of the precursors is varied during the feeding to achieve different concentrations of the different metals bonded with oxygen at different depths in the deposited layer.
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The invention comprises capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. In one embodiment, a capacitor includes first and second conductive electrodes having a high k capacitor dielectric region positioned therebetween. The high k capacitor dielectric region includes a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. The layer has varying stoichiometry across its thickness. The layer includes an inner region, a middle region, and an outer region. The middle region has a different stoichiometry than both the inner and outer regions.
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- This patent application is a Divisional Application of Ser. No. 11/215,642, filed Aug. 30, 2005, entitled “Capacitors Having a Capacitor Dielectric Layer Comprising A Metal Oxide Having Multiple Different Metals Bonded With Oxygen,” naming Vishnu K. Agarwal and Husam N. Al-Shareef as inventors which is a Continuation Application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/388,063 filed Aug. 30, 1999, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
- This invention relates to capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen.
- As DRAMs increase in memory cell density, there is a continuing challenge to maintain sufficiently high storage capacitance despite decreasing cell area. Additionally, there is a continuing goal to further decrease cell area. One principal way of increasing cell capacitance is through cell structure techniques. Such techniques include three-dimensional cell capacitors, such as trenched or stacked capacitors. Yet as feature size continues to become smaller and smaller, development of improved materials for cell dielectrics as well as the cell structure are important. The feature size of 256 Mb DRAMs and beyond will be on the order of 0.25 micron or less, and conventional dielectrics such as SiO2 and Si3N4 might not be suitable because of small dielectric constants.
- Highly integrated memory devices, such as 256 Mbit DRAMs, are expected to require a very thin dielectric film for the 3-dimensional capacitor of cylindrically stacked or trench structures. To meet this requirement, the capacitor dielectric film thickness will be below 2.5 nm of SiO2 equivalent thickness.
- Insulating inorganic metal oxide materials (such as ferroelectric materials, perovskite materials and pentoxides) are commonly referred to as “high k” materials due to their high dielectric constants, which make them attractive as dielectric materials in capacitors, for example for high density DRAMs and non-volatile memories. In the context of this document, “high k” means a material having a dielectric constant of at least 11. Such materials include tantalum pentoxide, barium strontium titanate, strontium titanate, barium titanate, lead zirconium titanate and strontium bismuth titanate. Using such materials enables the creation of much smaller and simpler capacitor structures for a given stored charge requirement, enabling the packing density, dictated by future circuit design.
- Certain high k dielectric materials have better current leakage characteristics in capacitors than other high k dielectric materials. In some materials, aspects of a high k material which might be modified or tailored to achieve a highest capacitor dielectric constant possible will unfortunately also tend to hurt the leakage characteristics (i.e., increase current leakage). For example, one class of high k capacitor dielectric materials includes metal oxides having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, such as the barium strontium titanate, lead zirconium titanate, and strontium bismuth titanate referred to above. For example with respect to barium strontium titanate, it is found that increasing titanium concentration as compared to barium and/or strontium results in improved leakage characteristics, but decreases the dielectric constant. Accordingly, capacitance can be increased by increasing the concentration of barium and/or strontium, but unfortunately at the expense of increasing leakage. Further, absence of titanium in the oxide lattice creates a metal vacancy in such multimetal titanates which can increase the dielectric constant, but unfortunately also increases the current leakage.
- One method of decreasing leakage while maximizing capacitance is to increase the thickness of the dielectric region in the capacitor. Unfortunately, this is not always desirable. Another prior art method of decreasing leakage is described with respect to
FIG. 1 . There illustrated is asemiconductor wafer fragment 10 comprising a bulkmonocrystalline silicon substrate 12. In the context of this document, the term “semiconductor substrate” or “semiconductive substrate” is defined to mean any construction comprising semiconductive material, including, but not limited to, bulk semiconductive materials such as a semiconductive wafer (either alone or in assemblies comprising other materials thereon), and semiconductive material layers (either alone or in assemblies comprising other materials). The term “substrate” refers to any supporting structure, including, but not limited to, the semiconductive substrates described above. Aconductive diffusion region 14 is formed withinsubstrate 12. An insulatingdielectric layer 16 is formed oversubstrate 12, and includes anopening 18 formed therein todiffusion region 14.Opening 18 is filled with a suitableconductive material 20, for example conductively doped polysilicon or a metal such as tungsten. Barrier, silicide or other layers might also of course be utilized, but are not otherwise described. - A
capacitor construction 22 is formed outwardly of insulatingdielectric layer 16 and in electrical connection withconductive plugging material 20. Such comprises aninner capacitor electrode 24, anouter capacitor electrode 26, and a capacitordielectric region 25 sandwiched therebetween. Capacitordielectric region 25 comprises a composite of threelayers Region 27 comprises a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, such as barium strontium titanate, fabricated to provide a stoichiometry which maximizes the dielectric constant of the material. As referred to above, this unfortunately adversely affects the desired leakage properties of the layer. Accordingly,layers layer 27 and comprise a material such as Si3N4 which exhibits extremely low current leakage. Unfortunately, Si3N4 has a considerably lower dielectric constant than the metal oxides having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. Such adversely reduces the overall dielectric constant, and accordingly the capacitive effect of capacitordielectric region 25. - The invention comprises capacitors having a capacitor dielectric layer comprising a metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. In one embodiment, a capacitor includes first and second conductive electrodes having a high k capacitor dielectric region positioned therebetween. The high k capacitor dielectric region includes a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. The layer has varying stoichiometry across its thickness. The layer includes an inner region, a middle region, and an outer region. The middle region has a different stoichiometry than both the inner and outer regions.
- Preferred embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to the following accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a semiconductor wafer fragment processed in accordance with the prior art, as discussed in the “Background” section above. -
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic sectional view of a semiconductor wafer fragment in accordance with the invention. -
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view of a chemical vapor deposition chamber utilized in accordance with an aspect of the invention. - This disclosure of the invention is submitted in furtherance of the constitutional purposes of the U.S. Patent Laws “to promote the progress of science and useful arts” (
Article 1, Section 8). - The invention is described in one exemplary structural embodiment as depicted by
FIG. 2 . Like numerals from theFIG. 1 prior art embodiment are utilized where appropriate, with differences being indicated with different numerals.FIG. 2 depicts awafer fragment 30 comprising acapacitor 32 having first andsecond electrodes electrodes - A high k capacitor
dielectric region 35 is positioned betweenfirst capacitor electrode 24 andsecond capacitor electrode 26. Capacitordielectric region 35 comprises a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, for example those materials described above. Most preferably and as shown, capacitordielectric region 35 consists essentially of such layer, meaning no other layers are received intermediatefirst electrode 24 andsecond electrode 26 which meaningfully impact the operation or capacitance ofcapacitor 32. In accordance with but one aspect of the invention, the metal oxide layer having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen has varying stoichiometry across its thickness. In other words, the stoichiometry in such layer is not substantially constant throughout the layer. - In accordance with but one aspect of the invention, consider a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen. One of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a first current leakage potential, while another of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a second current leakage potential which is greater than the first current leakage potential. By way of example only, consider a titanate, such as barium strontium titanate. Titanium is an example of one metal which when bonded with oxygen has a lower current leakage potential than either barium or strontium when bonded with oxygen. In this embodiment, the layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal bonded with oxygen which is more proximate at least one of the first and second electrodes than another portion which is more proximate a center of the layer.
- By way of example only,
capacitor 32 depicts capacitor dielectric region andlayer 35 as comprising aninner region 36, amiddle region 38, and anouter region 40.Regions portion 38. Accordingly,regions portion 38 more proximate a center of the layer withincapacitor dielectric region 35. - Accordingly, the layer or
region 35 in this example comprisesportions portion 38 more proximate the center of the layer ofcapacitor dielectric region 35. Further preferably,region 38 has a greater concentration of the another of the metals (i.e., a greater concentration of one or both of barium and strontium) bonded with oxygen thanportions portions 36 and 40 (both of such portions as shown) contacts one of the first and second electrodes. As shown,portion 36contacts electrode 24, whileportion 40contacts electrode 26.Regions regions FIG. 2 depicts but one example where the high k capacitor dielectric region includes a layer where a middle region has a different stoichiometry than both inner and outer regions. - In an additional or alternate aspect or consideration, consider a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen produces a first material having a first current leakage potential. Further, absence of the one metal in the oxide creates a vacancy and a second material having a second current leakage potential which is greater than the first current leakage potential. An example would be a multiple metal component titanate, such as barium strontium titanate, where the one metal comprises titanium. In accordance with this implementation, the metal oxide layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the first material which is more proximate at least one of the first and second electrodes than another portion which is more proximate a center of the layer.
- Again,
FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary construction, whereby at least one ofportions portion 38. Again using barium strontium titanate as an example, titanium constitutes a metal in such material which, when bonded with oxygen, produces greater current leakage potential or resistance than when a vacancy is created in the oxide by absence of the titanium atoms. Accordingly, barium and strontium quantity could essentially be constant throughout the layer ofcapacitor dielectric region 35, with only the quantity of titanium varying relative to such regions such a described in the preferred example immediately above. - In an additional or alternate considered aspect of the invention, consider a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen has a first dielectric constant. Another of the metals of such layer when bonded with oxygen has a second dielectric constant which is less than the first dielectric constant. The layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal bonded with oxygen more proximate a center of the layer than another portion more proximate either of the first and second electrodes. By way of example only, barium strontium titanate constitutes one such material. Specifically, barium and strontium in such material constitutes metals which, when bonded with oxygen, produce a first dielectric constant which is greater than when titanium is bonded with oxygen. Accordingly, and again by way of example only and in reference to the above
FIG. 2 ,region 38 constitutes the one portion having a greater concentration of the one metal (i.e., one or both of barium and strontium) bonded with oxygen which is more proximate a center of the layer. - In an additional or alternate considered aspect of the invention, consider a high k capacitor dielectric region comprising a layer of metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, where one of the metals when bonded with oxygen produces a first material having a first dielectric constant. Absence of the one metal in the oxide creates a vacancy, and a second material having a second dielectric constant which is less than the first dielectric constant. The metal oxide layer comprises at least one portion having a greater concentration of the first material which is more proximate a center of the layer than another portion which is more proximate either of the first and second electrodes.
- Again using barium strontium titanate as an example, barium and strontium are example metals whose absence in the lattice when producing vacancies results in a dielectric constant which is less than when present. Accordingly in this example with respect to barium strontium titanate, the one metal comprises at least one of barium and strontium. An exemplary construction encompassing the same is again as depicted in
FIG. 2 . - The above-described preferred embodiment was with respect to multiple component titanates wherein both the current leakage potential and dielectric constant aspects of the invention are met in the same material. Alternate materials are also, of course, contemplated whereby perhaps only one of the current leakage potential relationship or the capacitor dielectric constant relationship results, with the invention only being limited by the accompanying claims appropriately interpreted in accordance with the Doctrine of Equivalents.
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FIG. 3 depicts an exemplary process of depositing a dielectric layer comprising metal oxide having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen in accordance with an aspect of the invention. A chemicalvapor deposition chamber 70 has asubstrate 72 upon which deposition is desired positioned therein. Exemplarymultiple gas inlets chamber 70. Fewer or more gas inlets could, of course, be provided. Further, gases could be mixed further upstream of the schematic depicted byFIG. 3 , and flowed as mixtures or combinations relative to one or more inlets. - Multiple gaseous precursors are fed to the chamber under conditions effective to deposit the dielectric layer having multiple different metals bonded with oxygen on
substrate 72. At least some of the precursors comprise different metals of the respective multiple different metals bonded with oxygen, which is deposited in the layer on the substrate. As one example, a process for depositing (Ba,Sr) TiO3 includes utilizing precursors of Ba(DPM)2, Sr(DPM)2 and Ti(OC3H7)4, O2 at 0.5 Torr and 410° C., where “DPM” denotes “dipivaloylmethanato”. For example, one of each of these gases could be flowed from therespective inlets - In compliance with the statute, the invention has been described in language more or less specific as to structural and methodical features. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not limited to the specific features shown and described, since the means herein disclosed comprise preferred forms of putting the invention into effect. The invention is, therefore, claimed in any of its forms or modifications within the proper scope of the appended claims appropriately interpreted in accordance with the doctrine of equivalents.
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1-31. (canceled)
32. A method of forming a capacitor comprising:
providing a first electrode over a substrate;
forming a dielectric layer over the first electrode and comprising high k dielectric material, the forming of the dielectric layer comprising:
forming a first portion proximate the first electrode;
forming a center portion over the first portion; and
forming a third portion over the center portion, the center portion comprising a thickness which is substantially the same as a thickness of at least one of the first and third portions, and at least one of the portions comprising a dielectric constant and/or a current leakage potential that is different from at least one of the other two portions; and
providing a second electrode over the third portion of the dielectric layer.
33. The method of claim 32 wherein the first portion comprises a thickness which is substantially the same as the thickness of the center portion.
34. The method of claim 32 wherein the second portion comprises a thickness which is substantially the same as the thickness of the center portion.
35. The method of claim 32 wherein the first and second portions comprise respective thicknesses which are substantially the same as the thickness of the center portion.
36. The method of claim 32 wherein the center portion comprises a dielectric constant that is greater than respective dielectric constants of the first and third portions.
37. The method of claim 32 wherein the center portion comprises a current leakage potential that is less than respective current leakage potentials of the first and third portions.
38. The method of claim 32 wherein the first portion comprises a current leakage potential that is substantially the same as a current leakage potential of the third portion.
39. The method of claim 32 wherein the capacitor is comprised by a memory cell.
40. The method of claim 32 wherein the capacitor is comprised by a memory array.
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