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----* ''Series/TicTacDough'' had several "red box" categories which allowed a contestant to gain an overwhelming upper hand almost immediately, if played correctly. The most notable of these were...** "Bonus Category", which immediately allowed the contestant another turn if s/he answered a three-part question correctly. The thing was the category board shuffled, and invariably the "Bonus Category" would appear in an adjacent box or in a space that allowed him/her to set up and/or complete a tic-tac-toe. There were several instances where, when this category appeared, the opponent never got to play the game (although they were always invited back to play the next game). Eventually, in the interest of fair play, the category was retired.** "Double-or-Nothing", a modified "ExtraTurn" category which added an element of risk take the box or select another box and lose them both on an incorrect answer. The category board didn't shuffle with this category, allowing the opposing player a chance to play.* ''TheJokersWild'': Spinning three Jokers on a single spin automatically won the game for that contestant, provided s/he correctly answered a question. More than once, this happened on the first spin, but only once the first time it happened, in early 1973 did it result in the opponent not getting a chance to play; the second and all subsequent times it occurred, the opponent was always given at least one opportunity to "catch up" (by continuing to answer questions until they either caught up, won by surpassing the opponent's score or answering incorrectly).** Additionally, like ''Tic-Tac-Dough'', the 1978-86 syndicated version had a number of special scoring categories which contestants could use to either win immediately, catch up or, in the very least, build a huge advantage and pressure their opponent. Most notable were:*** "Fast Forward", where a category was read and the player could answer as many questions as they wanted (for either $50, $100, or $200 depending on what else was spun), with the catch that they could stop at any time and keep the money accumulated or risk it on answering the next question correctly; a wrong answer meant all accumulated cash on that question was lost and the opponent could answer just one question for face value.*** The "Bid" category: The player decided in advance how many questions he wanted to answer; if he got all of them right, he won the total amount (e.g., three questions at $100 each earned $300). An incorrect answer gave the opponent a chance to answer just one question to win the money. Played successfully, the "Bid" category put pressure on the opponent, but it could also backfire: late in the run, a contestant on her first spin got a natural triple with the category (also awarding a growing jackpot), bid five questions at $200 each (for $1,000, more than enough to win), got the first question wrong, and the champion immediately cashed in with a single correct answer to win the game. Creator/BillCullen, the host, basically said afterward the contestant's "quick kill" strategy wasn't a very good one, and unlike other quickly defeated contestants on Barry-Enright shows, she wasn't invited back.* ''Series/{{Concentration}}'': Rarely did it happen, but when a contestant was able to solve the puzzle immediately upon making the first match of the game on the game's first turn, never allowing the opponent a chance to play. ''Classic'' averted this after it instituted a best-of-three (and later, two-losses-and-done) format, while the 1973-78 syndicated version had both players play two matches...but on the original NBC series (and early in the ''Classic'' run), it was *tsk tsk* too bad for the unfortunately blitzed contestant.* ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'': Had a form of this with the Money Cards on the Fame Game board. Choosing the $25 card late in the game often put the game away for the leading contestant, even with the introduction of the 60-second SpeedRound.* Michael Larson, a contestant on the game show ''PressYourLuck''. He ''memorized'' the patterns that the board revolves around ahead of time, and became the biggest winner in the show's history by a huge margin ($110,237 in cash and prizes). Immediately after this, the patterns were changed to prevent another such incident, and CBS refused to allow anyone to air the episodes (yes, his taping actually took so long they had to edit it into a two-parter) on TV for nearly 20 years.** To put it into perspective, this was the most anyone had won on U.S. TV in a single game until ''WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' debuted.* Until 2003, ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' champions could win up to five games before being retired. Starting in the 2003-04 season, the producers instituted a "sky's the limit" rule where champions could go on and on winning until being defeated. Towards the season's end, Ken Jennings came along and went on a 74-game winning streak [[GoneHorriblyRight that lasted into the next season]].* ''ThePriceIsRight'': Many pricing games have unwritten tricks or rules that can be easily broken. Note that several of these games didn't actually have these unstated rules until about the very end of the 1970s or very early 1980s, and are never stated outright, but faithful viewers of the show have picked up on these recurring quirks. Examples:** '''Clock Game''': The game often uses multiples of 100 or figures ending in 99. Many contestants have gone right to an $x99 price and gotten it right on the first guess.** '''Cliff Hangers''': The game can almost always be won with guesses of $20-$30-$40 or $25-$35-$45.** '''Dice Game''': Averted early in the game's history, when despite the fact that a die has no numbers higher than six on it there ''could'' be numbers in the car's price higher than six. Went away once the game settled into its normal rules.** '''Golden Road''': In the final prize, none of the digits repeat. For instance, the contestant is shown $75,_49, and has 1, 4, 6 and 9 to choose from to fill in the blank; based on the unwritten rule, the contestant has essentially an either-or decision (either the 1 or 6).** '''Hole in One
or Two''': An unintentional dent in the course once caused a contestant to ''[[GoneHorriblyRight win!]]'' See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMUpLqcM2g here:]]*** ...Could it be that WesternAnimation/BugsBunny [[EpilepticTrees held a magnet under the golf ball course and drug the ball to the hole]], a la ''Film/SpaceJam?'' ** '''Lucky Seven''': Zeros are never in the price of the car. [[NintendoHard Not exactly a game breaker though]].** '''Now....or Then''': There are always four products that have correct answers of "now", with the remaining two "then." Also, there used to be a problem with recently-made products which were always "now", until the producers caught on and made it possible for these items to be "then" by assigning a lower price through calculation.** '''Pay the Rent''': The least-expensive item of the six grocery items ''never'' goes on the lowest platform (i.e., "in the mailbox").** '''Rat Race''': The third prize almost always has had an actual retail price of between $150 and $300, meaning that given the $100 spread either way, a bid of $200-250 can guarantee a pick of at least one rat.** '''Safe Crackers''': The lock tumblers always include a "0," and that zero is intended as the last number, essentially giving the contestant an either-or pick (e.g., $570 or $750?).** '''Temptation''': The prices in the prizes always have two unique digits (e.g., $828 or $1551), giving the contestant an either-or pick for each spot in the price of the car.** '''10 Chances''': The prices always end in 0, or 5 if there is no 0 pick from.** '''That's Too Much!''': The correct answer is neither the first- nor 10th-given price. [[note]]For a short time during the 2008-2009 season, the right answer was almost always the second or ninth price, which skewed a Robert Dobkowitz-era rule that the correct answer almost always fell between slots 3 and 8; the production staff let up when fans complained.[[/note]]* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' has a ton.** Many categories have obvious letters in them: S is usually a good bet if the category is a plural (e.g. "Things" or "People"); Star & Role always has AS in it; Song/Artist and Title/Author always has BY in it; and Food & Drink tends to follow the formula of "X with Y".** Initially, Same Name always contained the word "AND". After literally every contestant started the round with N-D-A, they changed it so that an ampersand (&) would be in place of the word AND. Oddly, they've mostly reverted to spelling out AND.** What Are You Doing? almost always has an -ING ending somewhere. Unlike with Same Name, it seems that contestants are encouraged to call N-G-I first.** The Final Spin of the Speed-Up round can zig-zag this. Originally, its value was just whatever dollar amount the host landed on, thus leading to many cases where a contestant had enough of a lead that his opponents had no chance of victory. (Can't build much traction at, say, $300 per letter.) This was counterbalanced somewhat by adding $1,000 to the value of the Final Spin, but even before ''that'' rule change, the Final Spin could become a game breaker if he hits $5,000 (or $2,000 on daytime). Over the years, many a contestant has managed to pull a come-from-behind victory on a $5,000- or $6,000-per-letter Speed-Up, including many who have actually gone from ''no money whatsoever'' to victory thanks entirely to said round.** In a non puzzle-related example, there used to be a Free Spin wedge on the Wheel. Countless contestants ended up banking large numbers of Free Spins due to hitting the wedge repeatedly, thus ensuring greater chances of keeping the Wheel out of their opponents' hands. A Summer 1986 daytime episode had the yellow contestant rack up ''five'' Free Spins and use them in Round 2, resulting in Round 3 beginning as a Speed-Up for $2,000/consonant and the '''blue''' player won thanks to a $2,000-per-letter Speed-Up. This was finally circumvented by reducing Free Spin to a single disc placed over a dollar amount. It was later retired for Free ''Play'', a wedge which allows the contestant to make any move without penalty, or the chance at one free vowel.*** The Free Play itself has become a major game-breaker. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAX_M6t-6o One guy landed on the space 5 times in a row]] [[LoopholeAbuse and used it to steal all 5 vowels]], and even besides that, when a player lands on it, [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome they will always immediately jump on the vowels]] without any regard for the possibility of an extra $500 for a consonant.** When the five-and-a-vowel Bonus Round debuted in 1981, contestants gave five consonants and a vowel before getting 15 seconds to solve the puzzle. However, a FollowTheLeader trend broke out of RSTLNE because [[LoopholeAbuse they were so common in the English language]], [[GoneHorriblyRight it almost assured success]]. The producers [[GameplayDerailment caught on]] but let it slide until October 3, 1988, when both versions [[ObviousRulePatch changed the rules]] to give RSTLNE automatically (to fill in ''some'' blanks of the puzzle) with the contestant giving another three-and-a-vowel (until the addition of the Wild Card let them pick another consonant) with just 10 seconds to figure out the answer.** The Prize Puzzle is often this, as merely solving the puzzle awards a trip of some sort that's usually in the $6,000 range. And on many occasions, the winner of the game has a score that, if one takes away said trip's value, drops down to second or third place; fans tend to criticize this because, as you can probably guess, such winners only did so through a guaranteed prize rather than their own skill and also because quite a few of these players also stink up the Bonus Round.*** The Prize Puzzle has managed to up the ante in Season 31, as the round (Round 3) also has an Express Wedge, on which a contestant can opt to stop spinning and keep picking off consonants for $1,000 a pop until he or she solves or calls a wrong letter (which acts as a [[{{Whammy}} Bankrupt]] in this case). However, they seem to realize the potential of a grossly-overinflated payday, as the Prize Puzzles in Season 31 have been noticeably shorter.** The Ẅ Car tags can be this; unlike other "extras", they are replenished in Rounds 1-3 if one of the two is won (but not if both are). This means that a contestant can pick up the tags in two different rounds and, so long as he or she solves both puzzles without losing either tag to Bankrupt, still win the car. While it's always a lower-end car, that's still a $15,000 hike in score and usually a guaranteed victory.* For the final round of ''Series/MatchGame'', contestants chose one panelist to work with. Richard Dawson was so good at matching that nearly everyone picked him, so the fed-up producers added the Star Wheel in June 1978.* Any Flemish (and perhaps every single one, since the Flemish ones were organized by Endemol) phone-in game show ever that relied on counting. Due to the fact that the answers rely all on the exact same calculation pattern (which always involved an addition) that could always be identified with a counting key. With only the calculation process units being different each time (with obscure Chinese units for instance being a real thing there) one only has to see a certain number of answers (which were always given at the end of the show) in order to have access to a code that shows you how to solve a calculation question that is asked to you in a phone-in game show. With only one out of six answers being wrong due to calculation errors by the very company that makes those shows one only has to know what the counting key looks like in order to win literally five out of six Flemish phone-in game shows involving counting until the company catches up on the facts and makes a new one. Due to how long it takes for those companies to realize that one only needs to participate in every single phone-in game show ever solving every single puzzle with the counting key in your hand and finish when the counting key changes with 1 million euro's in your pocket. 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A method for fabricating a bottle-shaped deep trench in a semiconductor substrate is disclosed. A pad stack layer is formed on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate. A deep trench is etched into the substrate through the pad stack layer. The deep trench has a vertical sidewall and a bottom surface. A CVD silicon nitride thin film is deposited on the interior surface of the deep trench. Subsequently, the upper portion of the CVD silicon nitride thin film is bombarded with inert gas ions by tilt-angle ion implantation. The bombarded upper portion of the CVD silicon nitride thin film is then selectively etched away to expose the substrate in the deep trench. The remaining CVD silicon nitride thin film at the lower portion of the deep trench serves as an oxidation mask. A thermal oxidation is carried out to oxidize the exposed substrate to form a silicon oxide layer at the neck of the deep trench. The oxidation mask is then stripped off to expose the lower portion of the deep trench, which is isotropically etched to form a bottle-shaped deep trench.
1. A method for fabricating a bottle-shaped trench for DRAM devices, comprising:
providing a substrate having thereon a pad layer;
etching said pad layer and said substrate to form a deep trench having a vertical sidewall and bottom surface;
depositing a conformal silicon nitride protection layer on said vertical sidewall and bottom surface of said deep trench;
ion bombarding an upper portion of said conformal silicon nitride protection layer;
selectively etching away said ion bombarded upper portion of said conformal silicon nitride protection layer to expose an upper portion of said vertical sidewall of said deep trench, wherein remaining said conformal silicon nitride protection layer constitutes a silicon nitride hard mask protecting a lower portion of said deep trench;
oxidizing said exposed upper portion of said vertical sidewall of said deep trench thereby forming a collar silicon oxide layer above said silicon nitride hard mask;
selectively etching away said silicon nitride hard mask; and
using said collar silicon oxide layer as an etch mask to isotropic etching said vertical sidewall and said bottom surface of said deep trench that are not covered by said collar silicon oxide layer, thereby forming a bottle-shaped deep trench.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a semiconductor process, and more particularly, to a simplified process of manufacturing a bottle-shaped deep trench capacitor for a DRAM device.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Trench-capacitor DRAM devices are known in the art. A trench-storage capacitor typically consists of a very-high-aspect-ratio contact-style hole pattern etched into the substrate, a thin storage-node dielectric insulator, a doped low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) polysilicon fill, and buried-plate diffusion in the substrate. The doped LPCVD silicon fill and the buried plate serve as the electrodes of the capacitor. A dielectric isolation collar in the upper region of the trench prevents leakage of the signal charge from the storage-node diffusion to the buried-plate diffusion of the capacitor. As the size of a memory cell shrinks, the chip area available for a single memory cell becomes very small. This causes reduction in capacitor area on a single chip and therefore leads to problems such as inadequate capacitance and large electrode resistance.
Various schemes are known for increasing the capacitance per unit area, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,448,131 filed Aug. 14, 2001, entitled "Method for Increasing the Capacitance of A Trench Capacitor", assigned to International Business Machines Corp., discloses a method for increasing the trench capacitor surface area. The method, which utilizes a metal silicide to roughen the trench walls, increases capacitance due to the increase in the trench surface area after the silicide has been removed. The roughening of the trench walls can be controlled by varying one or more of the following parameters: the density of the metal, the metal film thickness, the silicide phase, and the choice of the metal.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,555,430 filed Nov. 28, 2000, entitled "Process Flow for Capacitance Enhancement In A DRAM Trench", assigned to International Business Machines Corp., discloses a method including the steps of forming a discontinuous polysilicon layer on exposed walls of a lower trench region, the discontinuous polysilicon layer having gaps therein which expose portions of said substrate; oxidizing the lower trench region such that the exposed portions of said substrate provided by the gaps in the discontinuous polysilicon layer are oxidized into oxide material which forms a smooth and wavy layer with the discontinuous polysilicon layer; and etching said oxide material so as to form smooth hemispherical grooves on the walls of the trench region.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,018,174 filed Jun. 26, 1998, entitled "Bottle-Shaped Trench Capacitor With Epi Buried Layer", assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, DE) and International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, N.Y.), discloses a bottle-shaped trench capacitor having an expanded lower trench portion with an epi layer therein. The epi layer serves as the buried plate of the trench capacitor. A diffusion region surrounds the expanded lower trench portion to enhance the dopant concentration of the epi layer. The diffusion region is formed by, for example, gas phase doping, plasma doping, or plasma immersion ion implantation.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,190,988 filed May 28, 1998, by Toshiharu et al., entitled "Method for A Controlled Bottle Trench for A DRAM Storage Node", assigned to International Business Machines Corp., discloses a bottle-shaped trench capacitor with a buried plate formed in a controlled etch process. The bottle-shape is fabricated by etching deep trenches from a layered substrate, using the layers as a mask, and covering the sidewalls of the substrate with protective oxide and nitride layers. With the side walls covered, deep trench etching is then resumed, and a lower trench portion, below the protective layers of the side wall are formed. By diffusing a first dopant in the lower portion of the deep trench region, using the side wall protective layers as a mask, an etch stop is established for a wet etch process at the p/n junction established by the first dopant. The width of the lower trench portion is regulated by the time and temperature of the diffusion. Removing the doped material and applying a second dopant to the lower trench portion establishes a continuous buried plate region between trenches. A capacitor is formed by applying an insulating layer to the trench and filling with a conductor.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,365,485 filed Apr. 19, 2000, by Shiao et al., entitled "DRAM Technology of Buried Plate Formation of Bottle-Shaped Deep Trench", assigned to Promos Tech., Inc, (TW); Mosel Vitelic Inc. (Hsinchu, TW); Siemens Ag. (Munich, DE), discloses an improved method for forming a buried plate in a bottle-shaped deep trench capacitor. The method includes the steps of: (a) forming a deep trench into a semiconductive substrate; (b) filling the deep trench with a first dielectric material to a first predetermined depth; (c) forming a silicon nitride sidewall spacer in the deep trench above the dielectric layer; (d) removing the first dielectric layer, leaving the portion of the substrate below the sidewall spacer to be exposed; (e) using the sidewall spacer as a mask, causing the exposed portion of the substrate to be oxidized, then removing the oxidized substrate; (f) forming an arsenic-ion-dope conformal layer around the side walls of the deep trench, including the sidewall spacer; (g) heating the substrate to cause the arsenic ions to diffuse into the substrate in the deep trench not covered by the sidewall spacer; and (h) removing the entire arsenic-ion-doped layer.
However, the above-mentioned prior arts have a drawback in that the process steps for making a bottle-shaped trench are too complicated, resulting in high cost and low throughput. It is often desired to simplify the semiconductor fabrication process so as to reduce the manufacturing cost.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an improved and effective method for fabricating a bottle-shaped trench capacitor of DRAM devices.
According to the claimed invention, a method for fabricating a bottle-shaped trench for DRAM devices is disclosed. A substrate having thereon a pad layer is provided. The pad layer and the substrate are etched to form a deep trench having a vertical sidewall and bottom surface. A conformal silicon nitride protection layer is then deposited on the vertical sidewall and bottom surface of the deep trench. A title angle ion bombardment is carried out to ion bombard an upper portion of the silicon nitride protection layer. The ion bombarded upper portion of the silicon nitride protection layer is selectively etched away to expose an upper portion of the vertical sidewall of the deep trench, wherein remaining silicon nitride protection layer constitutes a silicon nitride hard mask protecting a lower portion of the deep trench. The exposed upper portion of the vertical sidewall of the deep trench is then oxidized to form a collar silicon oxide layer above the silicon nitride hard mask. Subsequently, the silicon nitride hard mask is selectively etched away. Finally, using the collar silicon oxide layer as an etch mask, the vertical sidewall and the bottom surface of the deep trench that are not covered by the collar silicon oxide layer is isotropic etched, thereby forming a bottle-shaped deep trench.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, but are not restrictive, of the invention. Other objects, advantages, and novel features of the claimed invention will become more clearly and readily apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:
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- Birthdate: 06/02/1977 (age 38)
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There's a lot of excitement around many college football teams as the season starts this week. Everybody has potential, and with a new four-team playoff system established, there will be a true and undeniable national champion at the end of the year. The University of Minnesota is one of several teams to open its regular season Thursday night.
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I've never seen The Secret Life of Machines, a purportedly light-hearted documentary series by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, but it comes highly recommend by one Hon. D. Rutter, so I gather it's worth a download. Lucky for me, then, that its creators have put new versions online for free download, including episodes in an "iPhone" format, quite very nearly DVD quality. I'm slurping them down now. (Firefox users with FlashGot: This is a very great time to use the filter feature of the "FlashGot All" selection. Just filter for "m4v" and it'll queue up all the episodes.) The Secret Life of Machines [Exploratorium.edu via Dan's Data]
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love this show. like the original mythbusters..sans myths.
I used to love this when it was originally on TV (probably about 15 years ago?). I hope it has aged well…
This show has aged very well, and its creators have been very generous over the years in allowing it to be shared online in various forms, and through various means.
I loved this show when it was on The Learning Channel, before TLC became mostly reality show garbage.
Bestest show ever! The fax machine has a very interesting history. I think the Mythbusters took some inspiration from these guys.
Unfortunately the iPhone format video was taken down. I got the first season and the first episode of the second but that's it. Anyone know of a torrent for these?
I got that link from Tim Hunkin's own site so please don't remove it down without checking below.