Patent 11088240 was granted and assigned to Samsung on August, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A capacitor includes a lower electrode including a first metal material and having a first crystal size in a range of a few nanometers, a dielectric layer covering the lower electrode and having a second crystal size that is a value of a crystal expansion ratio times the first crystal size and an upper electrode including a second metal material and covering the dielectric layer. The upper electrode has a third crystal size smaller than the second crystal size.