In accordance with the invention, a thin film capacitor including a dielectric of nitrogen or silicon-doped tantalum oxide and at least one electrode including chromium. Preferably the capacitor is fabricated by anodically oxidizing TaNx or Ta2Si and forming a Cr counterelectrode. The method is fully compatible with MCM processing. It produces anodic Ta2O5 capacitors having exceptionally low leaka...

A method of fabricating a capacitor of a semiconductor device is disclosed including the steps of forming a first polysilicon layer and an insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, implanting ions into the insulating layer to form an ion-implanted layer, patterning the insulating layer including the ion-implanted layer, etching the insulating layer pattern, forming a second polysilicon layer ...

A process of fabricating the storage capacitor of a DRAM memory IC device having increased electrode surface area is disclosed. The hemispherical-grain silicon layer used to effect the area increase does not suffer stripping-off during the process of removal of its native oxide. The prevention of the stripping-off is achieved by the employment of a amorphous silicon layer underlying the hemispheri...

Methods of forming a roughened surface through diffusion-enhanced crystallization of an amorphous material are disclosed. In one aspect, conductive hemispherical grain silicon can be formed through dopant diffusion-enhanced crystallization of one or more layers of amorphous silicon. To further enhance uniformity in the formation of the hemispherical grain silicon, the exposed surface of the amorph...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate the starting of the device by applying a preliminary load to the device, as well as to prevent the attrition of the device by reducing the differential back clearance of this spiral gear type differential gear. SOLUTION: An assembly type of spacer means is provided between the axles 12 and 14 of the differential gear, and between the side gears 16 and 18. The sp...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drafting device capable of suppressing burdens by the conversion operation of data for indicating the shape and arrangement, etc., of a solid body and performing an efficient operation. SOLUTION: The control part 24 of work machines 2a-2c generates drawing data such as framing plan drawing data and framing elevation drawing data, etc., for indicating a projection...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a dielectric capacitor having resistance against forming gas annealing so that the lower electrode is not oxidized, when the forming gas annealing is performed for the recovery of transistor characteristics, and the lower electrode is not reduced. SOLUTION: This manufacturing method of a dielectric capacitor provided with a lower electrode 23, consists of at least o...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manufacture a capacitor in a dynamic RAM, by changing a first tantalum oxide layer to a first acid tantalum nitride layer due to RTA treatment, and by forming a second acid tantalum nitride layer being formed on the first tantalum nitride layer on a second tantalum oxide layer. SOLUTION: A first tantalum oxide layer is formed on a polysilicon layer 30 being used as a lower...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device having a capacitor which uses ferroelectrics as a capacitor insulating film, and in hysteresis increased, while the leakage current of the capacitor is suppressed, and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. SOLUTION: A semiconductor device is provided with a capacitor having a semiconductor substrate 11, an insulating film 12 fo...

Curable coating composition based on polyepoxide-containing polymers and polyacid curing agents are disclosed. The polyepoxide containing polymers contain one or more pendant groups of carbamate, urea or urethane groups. The coating compositions are useful as clear coats in composite color plus clear coatings where the pendant groups provide for better intercoat adhesion.

A sorter includes a plurality of receiver members for receiving a workpiece, and a rotary circulating mechanism driven by a driving unit to circulate along a circulatory path. The circulating mechanism mounts the receiver members to be pivotable about a first pivot axis. On the circulatory path of the rotary circulating mechanism, each receiver member is switchable between an extended posture at w...

A coupling part is carried by a junction device housing for movement between a position wherein a face surface of the coupling part is flush (co-planar) with a face surface of the junction device housing and a position wherein the coupling part is recessed within the housing. A lift and latch mechanism urges the coupling part to its flush disposition and serves to latch the coupling part in the re...

A system and method for choosing communication pathways for data transfers on a computer chip based on desired latency and bandwidth characteristics. On a computer chip including a network of resources, those resources are allocated based upon the needs of the various components of the computer chip. Typical resources on the computer chip include a first bus with a plurality of data lines and cont...

A method of impeding the evaporation of a solvent by at least partially dissolving a solvent soluble polymer in the solvent in sufficient amounts so as to impede the evaporation of the solvent is disclosed. In one embodiment the soluble polymer may be selected from the group including oligomeric or polymeric homo-, co-, and terpolymers wherein a vinylcyclohexyl moiety comprises at least 10% weight...

In order to prevent the formation of flash on a gasket used to seal a filter element when the filter element is mounted in a housing to filter a fluid, such as air for an internal combustion engine, a molding method and apparatus utilizes a pair of mold components which abut along a mold line and define a cavity for forming the gasket. As the expandable material expands to fill the cavity and form...

A filled and polymerizable dental material is described which contains a sol of SiO2 particles in a liquid, organic dispersion agent, the SiO2 particles being organically surface modified, having an average size of 10 to 100 nm and being non-agglomerated.

A half pixel motion estimator, wherein a first search window having a constant size is formed with pixels stored in a previous buffer, and a first motion estimation is performed on the first window generating an integer vector and absolute errors, and a second search window having a constant size is formed by centering candidate blocks determined by an integer pixel motion vector, a second motion ...

A method and apparatus for splicing transport streams from multiple sources without violating the clock slew rates specified for a receiver. The method employs a digital phase lock loop (PLL) to lock both the transport output clock of the digital studio and the transmission symbol clock to a stable reference clock of 27 MHz.

A method and apparatus for assigning a temporary label to each connected area in an image by scanning the image by using a window which has a size of two pixels in the vertical direction and of a plurality of pixels in the horizontal direction. A set of values of pixels contained in the above window is obtained and one of predetermined temporary label assignment rules corresponding to the obtained...

This invention is a video security system (10) and a method for visually monitoring a scene and detecting motion of an intruder within the scene. A camera (C) continually views the scene and produces a representative signal. A processor (12) processes the signal and produces an image (f2) represented by the signal. This image is compared with a similar image (f1) of the scene from a previous point...