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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim general manager Jerry Dipoto made his marquee trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks over the winter, his clubhouse lost more than just 235 pounds and a big 33-ounce bat.
"We lost a big character guy in Mark Trumbo when we made that trade," Dipoto said Tuesday at Cactus League media day. He was all smiles as he expounded.
Trumbo, who brings some of the best right-handed power in baseball to the desert, is just as highly touted for his strong makeup as he is for his strength at the plate, which has produced 95 home runs in just over 1,700 at-bats.
"He's a leader," Dipoto raved. "He will lead through his work habits. He's a tremendously hard worker."
Such habits led to a top-30 slot over the last three seasons among American Leaguers in FanGraphs.com's weighted runs created (wRC) metric, which calculates how many runs a player "creates" -- via all notable offensive categories -- more than the league average. In another metric, isolated slugging -- which zeros in more on power -- Trumbo ranks 16th among AL hitters since 2011, with a .221 mark. His aforementioned 95 home runs rank fifth in the majors during the same span.
Just 28 years old and entering his fourth full season as a major leaguer, Trumbo just as quickly rose to prominence for his influence within the confines of the Angels' clubhouse, even with longtime veterans like Torii Hunter, Vernon Wells, Albert Pujols and Bobby Abreu crowding the rosters he made.
"You used to look at Mark and (see) that he was the one guy in our clubhouse that the veteran players respected who he was as a person and the young players looked up to who he was as a player and his work habits," Dipoto explained.
Trumbo's extolled makeup is now transcending locker room walls and cropping up in the Diamondbacks clubhouse.
"He's fit in great," Eric Chavez, the Diamondbacks' longest-tenured veteran, said. "He's just got a great demeanor about him. You can tell he's very serious about baseball and competing and wanting to be the best that he can be."
The more that you hear about the Diamondbacks' prime offseason acquisition, the more he begins to sound like another big bat in the clubhouse -- 2013 NL MVP runner-up, Paul Goldschmidt.
"They're both very similar," Chavez noted. "They're quiet, but the way they go about their business is very similar."
With clubhouse leaders like Chavez and Goldschmidt, Miguel Montero, J.J. Putz and Aaron Hill already in place, it's not as if there was any void that the brawny Trumbo needed to fill for the Diamondbacks in the way of influence. But the organization will surely begin to deeply value and take notice of his exemplary approach to the game, as Dipoto did.
"I couldn't say enough about the human being," the Angels GM remarked.
"He's a remarkable guy. He cared about the people, cared about his teammates, cared about the community."
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After last year, most people expected the Colts to be 2-6 at this point (and that's the optimistic fans among us. My dad had them going 3-13 this year). Given that they're 5-3, Evan Hilbert's article on Indy's midseason awards is actually bearable. Most are pretty obvious picks; one that surprised me: Biggest disappointment -- K Adam Vinatieri: The 17-year pro is off to his worst career start, connecting on just 16 of 22 field goals for a 72.7 percent average. His worst full-season average is 73.5 percent, back in 2003. This isn't a disappointment; a lot of us knew Vinatieri wasn't good last season, but he didn't get enough chances to prove it.
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JIM LEHRER: And finally tonight, some state of union preview thoughts from Shields and Brooks: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields –David Brooks of the Weekly Standard. David, an important speech at an important time?
DAVID BROOKS: Potentially, especially on the downside. If he doesn't deliver a good speech, it could really be a disaster for his administration. They have a history, this administration, of letting the kibitzers have their field day for a few weeks, letting them control the debate, and then the president comes in, in one of these set speeches at the bottom of the ninth, and he hits a home run. Suppose this time he doesn't hit the home run? Support for the war is declining. Support for Pres. Bush is declining. If he doesn't hit a home run, then that decline accelerates.
JIM LEHRER: What constitutes a good speech?
DAVID BROOKS: Getting far from the maddening crowd. There's all this crowd debating something. What Bush has done is gone beyond them. Remember, a year ago, Korea, North Korea and Iraq and Iran, the axis of evil– people were not talking about that, but bush went far beyond them. If Bush can go beyond what the current kibitzers are saying on Medicare, domestic policy, and Iraq, and talk grandly about what America's call is in the world, then I think it will be a success.
JIM LEHRER: How would you define a good speech tonight, Mark?
MARK SHIELDS: First, Jim, I think the point David makes is a very important one, because George Bush, the adversaries and critics of George Bush, have historically, to coin a phrase the president himself he used, mis-underestimated him. He's benefited from exceeding expectations. Expectations are not low tonight. He's being compared not to just George Bush against Al Gore in the debate; he's being compared to Ronald Reagan at the time of the Challenger crisis and tragedy. He's being compared in people's minds… not consciously, but they'll be comparing him to John Kennedy at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This is a president where there's the first crisis of confidence in his leadership since September 11. He's addressing the nation tonight. I mean, so that is an entirely different challenge for him. I think that he will get… state of the union speeches are catnip politically. They give a lift to whoever gives them, regardless of what condition the president is in politically. And the president will get a lift tonight. But I think the test has to be that tomorrow people say, "well, he did make sense on Iraq." Iraq is the central test of the speech tonight. It's not Medicare. It's not even his non-starter economic tax package, which is foundering already. It's Iraq. It's American blood, and it's America going to war.
JIM LEHRER: Do you agree?
DAVID BROOKS: I basically agree. There was a debate about whether they should release actual intelligence data in the speech tonight. For weeks, the administration has been promising us they would do it. It's been a fan dance the burlesque singers would do, where I'm going to show you the goods, and then they never show it. They've decided apparently not to do it tonight. I think that's because they know there's another speech coming in about three weeks, a prime-time war speech which presumably the president will make before we have the attack. That's where they're going to lay it out, and maybe next week Colin Powell. I think what he's going to do is say, listen, America is the number one power in the world. This is fundamentally why he threatens us without any details. This is what the world will look like if we don't act. We're preserving the peace, not challenging it.
JIM LEHRER: Does he have to put a new oomph to it tonight? Everything you just said he has already said before.
DAVID BROOKS: Right. He can't say Saddam is running out of time. He can't say he gassed his own people. He can't say all the things he said a million times, because that's just where we've been. He has to address the fundamental issues, which is why act now and why act alone if necessary.
JIM LEHRER: Do you agree?
MARK SHIELDS: I think it's a real test of his leadership, Jim. I don't think there's any question that support is diminished. The sense of fear about Saddam has been circumscribed by the presence of inspectors in his country and by the presence of American troops in the area. So the president better have a different argument to present tonight. I think David is right. They're not going to present the evidence — at least my own reporting tells me tonight. But there is a cry for evidence. I mean, seven out of ten Americans say the president has to present evidence to get allies aboard and to get the American people aboard.
JIM LEHRER: But isn't the word from the White House that tonight is a state of the union speech? This is not a war speech. This is not about, you know, making the case for specific… I mean, specific case and all that sort of stuff for war. It's more of a rallying thing. That's not going to work?
MARK SHIELDS: I don't think it's going to work, Jim. What the state of the union is, is not particularly terrific. I mean, by any earthly indicia. You know, if you take….
JIM LEHRER: What was that word?
MARK SHIELDS: Earthly indicia.
JIM LEHRER: David understood that.
DAVID BROOKS: It's actually Greek.
MARK SHIELDS: Well, it's Greek to you. No. So, I mean, but the central… I mean, the 800-pound gorilla in the room is not the economy, which is bad, but it is in fact Iraq. It's American troops going into battle.
DAVID BROOKS: We're sort of stuck in a law-and-order situation where the Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Clouseau or Hans Blix is out there looking for a murder weapon. That's not why you're going to war because you're punishing a crime. That's not why Churchill would have gone to war and Roosevelt would have gone to war. Tonight he has to elevate it just above what the inspectors happened to find or not find.
JIM LEHRER: What about the additional issue that, okay, we may have to fight a war in Iraq, but we also have this economy problem, and we also have to protect the homeland security, and we also have to fix Medicare, and we also… all these other things. Does he have a problem to say, hey, we can do it all?
DAVID BROOKS: He can wrap it up. If I were to say one historical speech he could go back to and look at a model, Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech called the "Strenuous Life" speech, saying individuals have to live lives that are not modest but strenuous and vigorous. We have to adopt this and that challenge. We can't put off our problems any longer. I would think that's the sort of model for the speech he has to give tonight.
MARK SHIELDS: I don't disagree with that, but the problem that George W. Bush has is, in order to do that, he has to celebrate the successes we've already accomplished. That's antithetical to his political philosophy, because the successes we've already accomplished have been through the instrument of government, whether it's the G.I. Bill, whether it's building the country, whether it's the land grant, colleges. They're all part of a large public enterprise. The president's whole predilection is to respond to public problems with private solutions, as he's going to do in Medicare tonight. That's going to be a tough sell for him, just because of his own personal convictions and philosophy.
JIM LEHRER: What about David's point that this isn't really about specifics tonight? This is more than usual, this state of the union is… it's got to go another level.
MARK SHIELDS: If it does, I don't argue with that. But if it does, Jim, it has to include some sense of sacrifice, some sense of mission which has been totally absent from the president's rhetoric and reality since Sept. 11.
DAVID BROOKS: Teddy Roosevelt made a very daring argument. He said suppose peace had been the primary value for Lincoln and the Republicans of 1861? We would have saved a lot of lives and dollars, and yet, as Roosevelt said, they would have exposed themselves as weaklings and shameful. Peace is not the highest value. There are things worth fighting for and things you have to fight for. That's the kind of daring speech he has to give.
JIM LEHRER: We'll find out shortly whether he makes it.
MARK SHIELDS: Even higher than the tax cuts.
JIM LEHRER: Even higher than the tax cuts?
MARK SHIELDS: Yeah.
JIM LEHRER: Thank you both very much. We'll see you later.


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A process for forming a capacitor with a high-k dielectric or ferroelectric layer within a semiconductor device is used to reduce the likelihood of oxidation or materials interactions between that layer and an underlying layer. A first electrode layer includes atoms that form along grain boundaries within the first electrode layer to reduce the oxidation of a conductive plug or undesired materials interactions.
1. A process for forming a semiconductor device comprising:
forming a conductive region that is capable of being oxidized into an insulator;
forming a first electrode over the conductive region, wherein:
the first electrode includes grain boundaries; and
annealing the first electrode using an oxygen-containing gas, wherein dopant atoms lie within the first electrode at the grain boundaries and improve an oxygen barrier property of the first electrode compared to the dopant atoms not being present at the grain boundaries; and
forming a semiconductor-containing source layer before forming the first electrode,
the dopant atoms are semiconductive atoms; and
the dopant atoms migrate into the first electrode during the annealing.
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the dopant atoms are incorporated into the first electrode by ion implantation; and
the dopant atoms are selected from a group of elements consisting of Si, Be, Al, Ge, As, and combinations thereof.
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forming a capacitor dielectric layer over the first electrode; and
forming a second electrode over the capacitor dielectric layer,
wherein the annealing is performed after forming the capacitor dielectric layer.
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9. A process for forming a semiconductor device comprising:
forming an insulating layer over a substrate;
forming a semiconductor containing source layer over the insulating layer;
defining an opening extending through the insulating layer and semiconductor-containing source layer;
forming a conductive structure within the opening;
forming a first electrode over the semiconductor-containing source layer, wherein the first electrode includes gain boundaries: and
incorporating oxygen atoms into the first electrode; and
annealing the substrate, wherein during the anneal, semiconductor atoms form the semiconductor-containing source layer migrate into the first electrode at the grain boundaries and improve an oxygen barrier property of the first electrode compared to the dopant atoms not being present at the grain boundaries.
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forming a capacitor dielectric layer over the first electrode; and
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This is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/022,756, entitled "Method of Forming a Semiconductor Device" filed on Feb. 12, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,344,413 which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/995,534, entitled "Method of Forming a Semiconductor Device" filed on Dec. 22, 1997, now abandoned. Both applications are assigned to the current assignee hereof and are incorporated herein by reference.
This invention relates in general to processes for forming semiconductor devices, and more particularly, to processes for forming semiconductor devices having a deposited layer.
High-k dielectrics are needed for capacitors used in semiconductor devices having design rules at or below 0.25 micron. A problem in forming these capacitors has been the unintentional oxidation of conductive plugs that are used to electrically connect the capacitors with other circuitry within the semiconductor device. When forming the capacitor, a first electrode is typically deposited over the conductive plug. The first electrode may have materials incompatibility issues with the conductive plug, or the first electrode may not adequately protect the underlying conductive plug from being oxidized during a subsequent deposition process step or an oxidizing anneal process step typically needed for the high-k dielectric.
A conductive barrier layer may be placed between the bottom electrode and the conductive plug. However, most barrier layers do not always adequately protect the conductive plug from being oxidized because oxygen from the subsequent deposition or anneal process can diffuse to the conductive plug and oxidize it. In addition, most conductive barrier layers that are used within the semiconductor industry cannot withstand annealing temperatures higher than approximately 550� C. At higher temperatures, the barrier layer may partially or completely oxidize, thereby forming a series capacitor with the storage capacitor, and therefore, degrading the overall capacitance density of the device. Additionally, severe oxidation of the plug material may result in a catastrophic failure of the device due to the physical expansion of the oxidized plug material.
The present invention is illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the accompanying figures., in which like references indicate similar elements, and in which:
FIG. 1 includes a process flow diagram for forming a high dielectric constant capacitor in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention; and
FIGS. 2-7 include illustrations of cross-sectional views of a portion of a semiconductor device during the formation of a high dielectric constant capacitor.
Skilled artisans appreciate that elements in the FIGS. are illustrated for simplicity and clarity and have not necessarily been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the FIGS. may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help to improve understanding of embodiments of the present invention.
A process for forming a capacitor with a high-k dielectric or ferroelectric layer within a semiconductor device is used to reduce the likelihood of oxidation or materials interactions between that layer and an underlying layer. A first electrode layer includes atoms that form along grain boundaries within the first electrode layer to reduce the oxidation of a conductive plug or undesired materials interactions. The present invention is defined by the claims and is better understood after reading the specification.
FIG. 1 includes a process flow diagram showing some ways of forming a high-k dielectric capacitor. FIG. 1 will be discussed in conjunction with the illustrations shown in FIGS. 2-7. An interlevel dielectric (ILD) formation step is carried out as shown in box 102. Referring to FIG. 2, a semiconductor device substrate 20 includes field isolation regions 22 and doped regions 24. As used in this specification, a semiconductor device substrate includes a monocrystalline semiconductor wafer, a semiconductor-on-insulator wafer, or any other substrate used for forming semiconductor devices. A gate dielectric layer 26 overlies portions of the semiconductor device substrate 20 and the doped regions 24. A gate electrode 27 overlies the gate dielectric layer 26. Sidewall spacers 28 are formed adjacent to the gate electrode 27 and gate dielectric layer 26. A first ILD layer 29 is then deposited over the semiconductor device substrate 20 and is planarized as shown in FIG. 2.
At this point, many variations are possible. One non-limiting embodiment is described here and others will follow. An optional semiconductor-containing source layer 32 is formed over the first ILD layer 29 as shown in FIG. 3 (see box 104 of FIG. 1). The semiconductor-containing source layer 32 has an excess of semiconductive atoms including silicon, germanium, carbon, tin, or the like. In one embodiment, the semiconductor-containing source layer 32 is a silicon-rich silicon nitride layer, a silicon-rich silicon oxide layer, or a silicon-rich silicon oxynitride layer. Typically, layer 32 has a thickness in a range of approximately 5-100 nanometers (nm), and more often has a thickness in a range of approximately 10-30 nm. The amount of extra semiconductor atoms is usually in a range of approximately 3-95 atomic percent of the layer. Still, in another embodiment, layer 32 could be all semiconductive atoms, such as an amorphous silicon layer.
An opening 42 is then formed through the semiconductor-containing source layer 32 and the first ILD layer 29 as seen in FIG. 4. The opening extends through layers 29 and 32 and contacts one of the doped regions 24. After forming the opening, an adhesion/barrier layer 44 and a conductive fill material 46 are formed within the opening 42 and overlying the semiconductor-containing source layer 32. A polishing step is performed to remove portions of films 44 and 46 overlying the semiconductor containing source layer 32 to form a conductive plug 48 as illustrated in FIG. 4. In this specific embodiment, the adhesion/barrier film 44 can include titanium/titanium nitride or other similar compounds. The conductive fill material 46 is tungsten. However, in other embodiments, both the conductive fill material 46 and adhesion/barrier film 44 can be replaced with doped polysilicon.
At this point, a first electrode for the capacitor is formed as shown in box 106 in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 5, the bottom electrode 52 can be formed using a number of different methods including physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), or plating. The layer is then patterned to form the bottom electrode 52 as shown in FIG. 5. The thickness (height) of the bottom electrode 52 is in a range of approximately 50-200 nm. The bottom electrode 52 includes iridium, platinum, palladium, ruthenium or the like.
The bottom electrode 52 includes appropriately selected dopant elements that preferentially reside at the grain boundaries of the electrode material and tend to strongly interact with oxygen. The combination of the location of the dopant elements in the microstructure and the dopant element's affinity for oxygen inhibits the diffusion of oxygen through the electrode by effectively "stuffing" the grain boundaries. As a result of improving the oxygen barrier qualities of the electrode, the underlying conductive plug material 46 is protected from oxidation during the subsequent processing of the high-k dielectric layer 62 of FIG. 6. These dopants are typically chosen from, but not limited to, Si, Be, Al, Ge, As or a combination thereof.
The method of introduction of these dopants may utilize in-situ or ex-situ (post-formation) processes. The dashed lines connecting box 108 to the flow diagram in FIG. 1 give some, but not all, examples where the post-formation process can be performed. Some examples of the processes used to introduce the dopant atoms include, ion implantation, chemical additions during electrode deposition (PVD, CVD and plating), or by thermal processing in conjunction with the presence of a dopant-containing source layer 32 adjacent to the electrode. With each of these methods the resultant dopant concentration in the electrode is in the range of approximately 0.10 to 20.0 atomic percent.
In one embodiment, ion implantation is used to introduce the dopants into the electrode material. The dose used for the implant depends on many factors. These factors include whether a subsequent anneal is performed and the grain boundary density within the bottom electrode 52. Other factors could likewise affect the dose. While nearly any dose improves the resistance to oxygen diffusion, the ion implantation is typically performed to a dose in the range of approximately 1E15 to 1E16 ions per square centimeter, at an energy of approximately 50 to 100 kiloelectron volts. This implantation is performed such that the projected range of the implant lies near the center of the electrode material. At a dose of approximately 1E15 to 1E16 ions per square centimeter, the bottom electrode has a dopant concentration on the order of approximately 1.0 atomic percent.
Afterward, an annealing step is used to segregate the dopants to the grain boundary regions of the polycrystalline electrode. This anneal does not need to occur immediately after the formation of the electrode but could be performed later. Similarly, the rest of the post formation processing does not need to be performed immediately. For example, the anneal can be performed after the high-k dielectric layer has been formed or even after the second electrode for the capacitor has been formed.
In a second embodiment, the doping can be performed during physical vapor deposition of the bottom electrode layer. In this particular embodiment, the sputtering target used for the electrode deposition would contain the desired dopants as well as the electrode material, or a co-sputtering process could be used where deposition from multiple targets occurs simultaneously. In this embodiment a post formation anneal step is optional.
In a third embodiment, the doping can be performed by allowing the excess dopant atoms contained in the semiconductor source layer 32 to diffuse upward along the grain boundaries of the electrode layer 52 during an anneal cycle. The total anneal is typically performed at a temperature in a range of approximately 400-700� C. for a time in a range of approximately 2 to 30 minutes. Generally, longer times can be used with the lower annealing temperatures, and shorter times are used with the higher annealing temperatures. Typically, this anneal is performed using a rapid thermal process. However, other tools could also be used such as fast ramp or conventional furnaces.
In addition to the introduction of dopants to enhance the oxygen diffusion barrier qualities of the electrode, an optional introduction of small amounts of oxygen to the bottom electrode can prevent possible adverse reactions or interactions between the electrode dopants and the high-k dielectric layer. Through the appropriate introduction of oxygen (see examples below) into the bottom electrode the original dopant atoms are effectively immobilized within the electrode microstructure and are prevented from interacting with the high-k dielectric layer. Two non-limiting, illustrative examples are described in order to clarify the above concept. For a case when the dopant atoms are introduced into the electrode material by using an adjacent layer containing the dopant elements, the subsequent anneal step can be used to introduce oxygen into the electrode. At first, during the anneal cycle an oxygen free ambient is used followed by a second anneal step which can be performed with an oxygen-containing gas, such as oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, ozone, or the like. The anneal can be performed with or without plasma assistance. The total anneal is typically performed in the temperature range of approximately 400-700� C. for a time in the range of approximately 2 to 30 minutes.
In the second illustrative example, additional doping of the electrode with oxygen can be performed in-situ during PVD deposition of the electrode layer. The process gases typically include a noble gas and an oxygen-containing gas including oxygen, nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, ozone, or the like. In a similar fashion to the anneal process, the deposition can be performed in two steps; first only the noble gas is used in the plasma followed by a second step where an oxygen-containing gas is introduced. During the second process step, the oxygen-containing gas is approximately 2-50 volume percent of the total feed gases making up the plasma. More often, the oxygen concentration is in the range of approximately 5-20 volume percent. In each of these non-limiting examples, the addition of oxygen will help with the localization of the electrode dopant elements, preventing segregation of the elements to the electrode/high-k dielectric material interface. Utilizing either of these processes, or other processes similar in effect, should prevent the formation of undesirable interfacial layers or a degradation of the electrical characteristics of the high-k dielectric material itself.
Returning to the capacitor formation, a high-k dielectric layer is then formed as shown in box 110 in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 6, the high-k dielectric layer 62 is formed over the first electrode 52. The high-k dielectric layer 62 typically has a dielectric constant of at least 20. Typical materials include barium strontium titanate, lead zirconate titanate, strontium bismuth niobium tantalate, or the like. Alternatively, a ferroelectric material could be used instead of a high-k dielectric material. Although most, but not all, ferroelectric materials have a high dielectric constant, the integration issues with these materials are nearly the same as for high-k dielectrics; namely good adhesion without adverse interactions with adjacent materials. If a dynamic random access memory cell is being formed, layer 62 usually has a thickness in a range of approximately 15-40 nm. For a ferroelectric random access memory, the thickness may be in a range of approximately 15-300 nm. The actual thickness depends on the electrical characteristics necessary and the device performance that is desired.
The second electrode is then formed as shown in box 112 in FIG. 1. Referring to FIG. 6, the second electrode layer 64 is then formed over the substrate. This material can be formed in a similar fashion as the first electrode or may be different. Typical materials used for the second electrode include platinum, palladium, iridium, ruthenium or the like. Again, the oxygen doping of the second electrode layer may be used to enhance the electrical properties of the capacitor.
Processing is continued to form a substantially completed device as illustrated in FIG. 7. In this FIG., a second ILD layer 70 is deposited and patterned to form a dual inlaid opening 72. An adhesion/barrier film 74 is then formed that makes contact with the second electrode layer 64. The opening is then filled with a conductive fill material 76 that typically is mostly aluminum or copper. After forming the layers, the substrate is then polished to remove that portion of the films 74 and 76 lying outside the dual inlaid opening 72. A passivation layer 78 is then formed over the layer of the uppermost interconnects. Although not shown, electrical connections are made to the other doped region 24 and the gate electrode 27. Further, if other interconnect levels are required, additional ILD layers and interconnects can be formed. The process steps needed to form this are relatively easy to integrate. Additionally, the use of the semiconductor-containing source layer can be an antireflective layer and improve adhesion between the electrode and the ILD layers.
In the foregoing specification, the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments. However, one of ordinary skill in the art appreciates that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention as set forth in the claims below. Accordingly, the specification and FIGS. are to be regarded in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense, and all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of present invention.
Benefits, other advantages, and solutions to problems have been described above with regard to specific embodiments. However, the benefits, advantages, solutions to problems, and any element(s) that may cause any benefit, advantage, or solution to occur or become more pronounced are not to be construed as a critical, required, or essential feature or element of any or all the claims. As used herein, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
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When news first broke of the mass rape of women and girls in the Congo at the end of the summer we were told that about 150 had been raped.
A little over a week later the number jumped to 240 women and girls.
Today, reports from the U.N. reveal that the number of victims is really over 500 – the youngest being a month-old baby boy and the oldest a woman of 110 years old.
Will it ever end?
TAKE ACTION: Urge UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to ensure the women of the Congo will never be subjected to a tragedy like this again.
The U.N. has admitted to "failing" victims of the Congo (with qualifiers of course) noting that, "While the primary responsibility for protection of civilians lies with the state, its national army and police force, clearly we have also failed. Our actions were not adequate, resulting in unacceptable brutalisation of the population of the villages in the area. We must do better."
Margot Wallstrom, the woman responsible for UN efforts to combat sexual violence in conflict said the following about this summer's mass rapes: "It is evident that rape is increasingly selected as the weapon of choice in eastern [Congo], with numbers reaching endemic proportions. The sad reality is that incidents of rape have become so commonplace that they do not trigger our most urgent interventions."
"…do not trigger our most urgent interventions." Hundreds of innocent people, from newborns to grandmothers, were (and continue to be) brutally raped – many by more than one man and often in front of family. How does this not trigger "urgent intervention?"
Wallstrom's attitude (which I'm sure is shared by many) is horrifying, as is the notion that rape in the DRC has become so commonplace it no longer raises alarm. How many more women and children must be viciously violated before "urgent intervention" is taken?
As Amelia points out in her post earlier this week, these peacekeeping missions aren't doing their job so what will?
I'll tell you one thing; at the very least a renewed sense of outrage and shock instead of indifference and acceptance at the mass raping of innocent women, children, and babies is desperately needed. These atrocities should fill us with an anger so deep it propels us – all of us – into action.
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Do they ever think that the same thing could happen to their mothers, sisters and daughters? What a shame!
I favor giving the women there weapons & teaching them to aim for the nuts when they're attacked.
It is a tool by a government that ignores human rights. Not fazed by the UN, they will terrorize to subjugate the populace. This is also why, throughout history, you read about conquering armies pillaging and raping. As long as there is conflict between countries, cultures and religions, this will always exist to a certain extent. The more developed nations will still do it, albeit to a lesser degree. Even a US soldier was found to have raped and killed a young teenager in Iraq. Sad...as it will always be a tool of war.
This is sad!
It happens all over Africa i`m from south africa and i know what happens there, so yes its nothing new to me , but its still shocking !! and thats why i left with my kids . I pray for all the woman raped. Ps i myself has nearly been raped 3 times but i had luck to get away Thank God
Shocking that so many men resort to this insanity! I feel so sorry for those poor women!!
Margot Wallstrom is wrong. This shocking disclosur does warrant urgent action.
Thankyou for informing us on this horrific issue.
I don't think I am really that surprised but I am horribly disgusted. I don't understand how this is allowed. I am at a loss for words, my shock, disgust, and horror that people can do this at all let alone to children and babies is beyond what I can say in words.
A one month old? inconceivable, my mind just can't get around that one. What are these creatures called who rape babies? And people say there is a god who is merciful? who are they kidding? what part of the divine plan is this, huh?
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Must-click link: do fans care more about the hot stove than the game action?
Jul 28, 2014, 9:46 AM EDT
This Will Leitch piece in New York Magazine begins with LeBron and the NBA, but it gets to a general point about sports I've thought about for a long time: whether fans care about the off-the-field, free agency/hot stove aspects of sports more than they care about the actual games.
After noting that he can't ever hope to put himself in the position of a star athlete competing for a championship, Leitch talks about what he and other sports fans can comprehend:
What I can grasp is what happens off the court. Draft lotteries. Salary-cap maneuvering. Free-agent negotiations. Roster construction. And not only grasp: Like just about every other sports fan in America, I've been doing all of those things in fantasy sports for two decades. Also like just about every other sports fan in America, I've started to think I'm pretty good at it. We all have. Which has made the action on the court, or the field, feel somehow like the subplot.
A friend of mine is fond of saying — and has been saying for years — that there once was a time when kids grew up wanting to be star athletes. Now they grow up wanting to be general managers. I think that's an overstatement, but there is some essential truth there. There is something driving fantasy sports, sabermetrics and the conversation in and around blogs like this one that is way more informed by off-the-field, team-building considerations than the actual kinetic aspects of sports. HardballTalk's best month, traffic wise, is always December. Every single year.
Obviously the games are why we're into sports. It all starts there. But it certainly doesn't end there. And those games may not be what engage us most about the sports we love.
- jarathen - Jul 28, 2014 at 9:53 AM
That's certainly a bigger part than it used to be, and I think it's due to the spread of information. It's hard to critique a given at-bat, but much more fun and detailed to critique roster construction (or lineup construction, for some people).
If you've ever played OOTP (and I have played quite a bit), it really is a ton of fun to sit there and watch players develop, to construct the perfect roster, to pull off the trade that takes your team to the next level or creates payroll flexibility and adds to minor league depth. It's an aspect of the game that almost anyone can participate in. You don't need great reflexes or even the eye of a seasoned scout.
And that part of the game has no off-season, which makes it the year-round representative of the sport.
- NatsLady - Jul 28, 2014 at 9:54 AM
Can't imagine ever caring about fantasy baseball. The real thing is too much fun–and I'm just a fan watching and observing, not playing.
- blacksables - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:02 AM
- yahmule - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:08 AM
The players at the highest levels of rotisserie baseball know the game as well or better than the most dedicated fans of a single team. It's not possible to compete in high dollar leagues like the NFBC unless you're extremely familiar with all 30 teams and their farm systems.
- blacksables - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:16 AM
Knowing a bunch of names and numbers is not the same as knowing the game.
As evidenced 90% of the time someone tries to interpret a rule without ever having read the rule book or played the game (you know, practical knowledge).
- yahmule - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:24 AM
Being able to assess and talent and predict results indicates a deep understanding of the game and that's not achieved by simply knowing names and numbers.
- justinreds - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:09 AM
What is more fun, restoring an old car or driving it around after you are done? Sure driving is awesome, and it's the end goal. But you can't tell me that there aren't people out there who have more fun building and customizing versus enjoying the finished product.
- natstowngreg - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:21 AM
This is my 30th season of playing some sort of fantasy baseball. I started by resolving that it would be secondary to the real thing. Think I've been able to do so. Not everyone can.
If anything, playing fantasy baseball has enhanced my appreciation of the real thing, in three ways.
— My feeble efforts to construct (mostly Scoresheet Baseball) teams make me appreciate how hard it is to be a GM. And, how little I really know about the business of baseball. A valuable perspective, for example, when reading some commenters' more absurd proposed player moves.
— While my prime concern is with the fortunes of the Washington Nationals, playing fantasy gives me a perspective across MLB. Similar to why I like interleague play; it was good to see Mike Trout and Yu Darvish play in person. And, see Albert Pujols hit his 500th homer (not as a Nats fan, to be sure, but as a baseball fan).
— When I was ready to give up on baseball (in particular, 1994-1995), playing fantasy kept me going. [Well, Cal Ripken didn't hurt.]
- Jason @ IIATMS - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:38 AM
My three highest months of traffic ever were this past winter. When no games were played. And traffic trends lower as the summer lags.
Anecdotal, for sure.
- RickyB - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:10 AM
I may be in the minority, but trade conjecture and free agent discussions leave me bored to death. Just like recruiting at the college level cannot hold my interest for even a few seconds. How players are developing in the minor leagues is interesting to me, but beyond that, you can take the hot stove league and keep it behind a curtain for all I care.
- paperlions - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:28 AM
During the off season, every team drafts, every team signs or loses FAs, every team can make trades….there is something there for every fan base regardless of the quality of their teams roster during the previous season. During the season, fan bases usually slowly check out as their teams playoff prospects dim and the fans look to the future.
It may also be that during the year, people mostly watch games, during the off season, without games to watch, they find other activities that drive traffic or interest.
- maddog11896 - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:35 AM
Not to plug anything but if you're not much into playing the game but more of building a realistic franchise from head to toe with EVERY MLB detail, I suggest buying one of the Out Of The Park Baseball games. I buy them nearly every year and I'm never disappointed http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/out-of-the-park-baseball/
- godsmacked1 - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:44 AM
Craig, this is why I'm in the "baseball is dying" camp, though I really don't think it will "die." My dream as an 7 year old was to attend every home game and watch every road game of the Mets, as excruciating as that sounds today. Today, I am more interested in reading about the building of the organization from top to bottom than I am sitting through 162 three and a half hour games, and it's not because I've matured (according to my wife). I think your friend is right, though the transition of wanting to play to wanting to become GM for most comes at a very young age with the realization that we have no shot of playing big league ball.
- temporarilyexiled - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:13 PM
I'll post GM-wannabe-like comments way more often when I feel things are amiss. When my team is doing well, I tend to watch and enjoy. I'll always love watching baseball more than trying to "improve" my team. I'll just assume that since most teams need to do better, and the comments tend to be more griping than crowing, it just looks like people are focused on the peripherals. If you look at the actual team sites, you'll see a lot more crowing to go along with the griping. And it usually comes off as just about the most square, corny, boring stuff you can imagine. Or maybe it's just that I'm beyond redemption, and can't get publically excited very often with the likeminded.
- dinofrank60 - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:30 PM
Do people even like playing sports anymore? It goes beyond playing professionally or in organized leagues, but just for fun. I don't see that much anymore.
Pro sports have tried for decades to create as much interest as possible. They have it now, because the enjoyment isn't derived from playing the sport at any level, but from other aspects such as fantasy. This allows people to enjoy and be entertained without having to have been an athlete, which can be an exclusionary point of view.
It almost seems like playing is a detriment to understanding the sport and that how to play is boring and unimportant in relation to understanding the significance of evey action and its historical and statistical ramifications.
Man, I need some oxygen after spewing out this! All this hot air is making my head dizzy!
- RickyB - Jul 28, 2014 at 10:53 PM
Just because I don't watch American Idol or The Bachlorette or any number of reality shows, and don't know anyone that actually does, does not mean there aren't a lot of people that watch those shows (unfortunately). Same goes for playing sports. Plenty of kids and adults, from youth leagues to adult leagues, play a number of different sports — baseball, hockey, basketball, tennis, racquetball. Everyone has their own experiences, but it takes widespread data to get a good hold on something like this, not anecdotal evidence.
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Malawi national cricket team
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The Malawian cricket team is the team that represents the country of Malawi in international cricket.
In 2002 Malawi participated in the Africa Cup in which 10 nations took part. They came last in the group, losing all 4 matches.
They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2003.[1] Their international debut came the following year in the African affiliates championship, where they came fourth. They participated in the equivalent tournament in 2006, Division Three of the African region of the World Cricket League, once again coming fourth.[2]
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The meaning of the standard fecal coliform test used to monitor water quality has been called into question by a new study that identified sources of Escherichia coli bacteria that might not indicate an environmental hazard.
Fecal pollution of surface waters is measured by the concentration of E. coli bacteria in the water because E. coli is believed to live only in the intestines and waste of humans and other warm-blooded animals, and quickly die outside its host. The presence of E. coli in water also serves as a marker for other potentially more harmful organisms that may accompany it. Positive E. coli tests may lead to the summertime closing of beaches and other recreational bodies of water.
In this new study, researchers report identifying and sequencing the genomes of nine strains of E. coli that have adapted to living in the environment independent of warm-blooded hosts. These strains are indistinguishable from typical E. coli based on traditional tests and yield a positive fecal coliform result though researchers say they may not represent a true environmental hazard.
"The basis for E. coli's widespread use as a fecal pollution indicator is the traditional thinking that E. coli cannot survive for extended periods outside a host or waste, but this study indicates that's not true," said Kostas Konstantinidis, an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. "These results suggest the need to develop a new culture-independent, genome-based coliform test so that the non-hazardous environmental types of E. coli are not counted as fecal contamination."
A paper describing the research was published April 11 in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The work was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
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c.1600, from Latin lugubris "mournful, pertaining to mourning," from lugere "to mourn," from PIE root *leug- "to break; to cause pain" (cf. Greek lygros "mournful, sad," Sanskrit rujati "breaks, torments," Lettish lauzit "to break the heart"). Related: Lugubriously; lugubriousness.


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The surprising Cleveland Browns can top the AFC North if QB Brian Hoyer can lead them to a third win against Buffalo.
By Paul Higham Twitter: @SkySportsPaulH
Last Updated: 03/10/13 11:47pm
Hoyer can become the first Browns quarterback to win his first three starts for the team if he can continue his surprising rise to fame after replacing the ineffective and injured Brand Weedon under centre.
If Cleveland's 0-2 start was no surprise, their trading of first-round running back Trent Richardson to the Colts certainly was, but just as it looked like another doomed season they pulled out two huge victories.
Cleveland native Hoyer took the reins and showed what could be done, throwing a last-minute touchdown to beat the Vikings in Minnesota before throwing two TDs and no interceptions on Sunday to beat highly-rated divisional rivals Cincinnati.
If Hoyer can continue his dream form, as he will start Thursday even though Weedon is fit again, the Browns will move to 3-2 and top the division, albeit only temporarily, and there will finally be some cause for optimism amongst their long-suffering fans.
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"The alternative is bad when you're 0-4 or 1-3 and fighting to try to get into the race," Browns tackle Joe Thomas said. "Sitting at 2-2, it's not where we wanted to be. But after an 0-2 start, it's as good as we could have done. Sitting there with a lot of games to go, but still fighting in the division. You can't ask for any more.
"Brian's done a nice job for us coming in, providing that spark. He had two nice games already making the right throws, getting the ball out on time, just making sure everybody's on the same page."
Cleveland's success has, though, been on the back of their third-ranked defence, which kept the Bengals out of the end zone last week and will hope to do the same to the Bills, on a short week and with both their running backs nursing injuries.
CJ Spiller and Fred Jackson are both expected to play as Buffalo look to continue with their second-ranked running game, but Cleveland boast the best rush defence in the league with only 2.9 yards per carry being allowed this season.
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That may switch the emphasis to rookie quarterback EJ Manuel, who has performed well so far but has his star receiver Stevie Johnson struggling with a hamstring problem.
The Bills may also be without injured starters Jairus Byrd and Leodis McKelvin again in their secondary, but they still managed to pick off Joe Flacco five times last week as will be looking to put up similar numbers on Hoyer.
Cleveland's own passing attack has been surprisingly effective, especially with Hoyer, and tight end Jordan Cameron who has 30 catches and five touchdowns already, while Josh Gordon has returned from his two-game suspension and is growing into the team.
Buffalo beat Super Bowl champions Baltimore last week, so will be in good spirits despite being on the road on a short week, although a win and move to 3-2 for them would still leave them trailing in unbeaten New England's wake.