Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Skhynix Inc.

Chang Moon Lim

Jae Chang Jung

Cheol Kyu Bok

Seung Chan Moon

Jun Taek Park

Seo Min Kim

Sam Young Kim

In Hwan Lee

Byoung Hoon Lee

Jin Soo Kim

Myoung Soo Kim

Seung Hyun Moon

Jeong Su Park

Yong Dae Kim

Tae Joong Ha

Yoon Suk Hyun

Mi Jeong Lim

Seok Kyun Kim

Byung Hoon Lee

Sun Young Koo

A reflective mask includes a first reflection layer disposed on a mask substrate, a first capping layer disposed on the first reflection layer, a second reflection pattern disposed on a portion of the first capping layer, and a phase shifter disposed between the second reflection pattern and the first capping layer to cause a phase difference between a first light reflecting from the first reflection layer and a second light reflecting from the second reflection pattern. Related methods are also provided.

Reflective mask and method of fabricating the same

In a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same, a pillar pattern is formed in an alternating pattern and a one side contact (OSC) is formed without using a tilted ion implantation process or a mask, resulting in formation of a vertical gate. The semiconductor device includes an alternating or zigzag-type pillar pattern formed over a semiconductor substrate, a first hole formed between pillars of the pillar pattern, a passivation layer formed over a sidewall of the first hole, a second hole formed by partially etching a lower part of the first hole, a bit line formed in the second hole, and a contact formed at a lower part of the pillar pattern.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device includes a cell mask pattern disposed in a cell region of a mask substrate and a vernier mask pattern disposed in a vernier region of the mask substrate. The vernier mask pattern includes a variable mask pattern portion to transfer a different shape of pattern depending on the magnitude of exposure energy.

Photomask and method for forming pattern of semiconductor device using the same

Lithography processes are provided. The lithography process includes installing a reticle masking (REMA) part having a REMA open region in a lithography apparatus, loading a reticle including at least one reticle chip region in which circuit patterns are disposed into the lithography apparatus, and sequentially exposing a first wafer field, which includes a first chip region corresponding to the reticle chip region, and a second wafer field, which includes a second chip region corresponding to the reticle chip region, of a wafer to rays using the reticle and the REMA part to transfer images of the circuit patterns onto the wafer. An edge boundary of the REMA open region transferred on the first wafer field is located on a scribe lane region between the first and second chip regions while the first wafer field is exposed. Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the lithography process are also provided.

Lithography processes utilizing extreme ultraviolet rays and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices using the same

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a vertical cell transistor structure may include forming a vertical cell transistor structure over a semiconductor substrate of a cell region; forming an insulating film over the vertical cell transistor structure; planarizing the insulating film to expose a hard mask film disposed at a top portion of the vertical cell transistor structure; and forming a storage node contact by removing the hard mask film.

A polymer for immersion lithography comprising a repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and a photoresist composition containing the same. A photoresist film formed by the photoresist composition of the invention is highly resistant to dissolution, a photoacid generator in an aqueous solution for immersion lithography, thereby preventing contamination of an exposure lens and deformation of the photoresist pattern by exposure.

Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device

A method for forming a fine photoresist pattern of a semiconductor device, the method comprising the steps of forming a chemically amplified photoresist film over an underlying layer formed over a semiconductor substrate to form a first photoresist pattern; exposing the first photoresist pattern without exposure mask to bake the resulting structure; and flowing the photoresist of the first photoresist pattern to obtain a second photoresist pattern.

Method for fabricating semiconductor device

A lithography method has a simulation method for mathematically approximating a photoresist film pattern with a Diffused Aerial Image Model ('DAIM') for semiconductor device fabrication. The DAIM is applied with at least two acids having heterogeneous diffusion characteristics.

Diffused aerial image model semiconductor device fabrication

A method of forming a pattern of a semiconductor device comprises forming a first hard mask film, a first resist film, and a second hard mask film over an underlying layer of a semiconductor substrate; forming a second resist pattern over the second hard mask film; etching the second hard mask film using the second resist pattern as an etching mask to form a second hard mask pattern; performing an ion-implanting process on the first resist film with the second hard mask pattern as an ion implanting mask to form an ion implanting layer in a portion of the first resist film, and selectively etching the first resist film with the second hard mask pattern and an ion implanting layer as an etching mask to form a first resist pattern.

Method of forming pattern of semiconductor device

Polymer for immersion lithography and photoresist composition

Disclosed herein is a top anti-reflective coating polymer represented by Formula 1, below: wherein R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, fluoro, methyl or fluoromethyl; R3 is a C1-10 hydrocarbon or a C1-10 hydrocarbon in which the hydrogen atoms are partly replaced by fluorine atoms; and a, b and c, representing the mole fraction of each monomer, are in the range between 0.05 and 0.9. Because a top anti-reflective coating formed using the anti-reflective coating polymer of Formula 1 is not soluble in water, it can be applied to immersion lithography using water as a medium for a light source. In addition, because the top anti-reflective coating can reduce the reflectance from an underlying layer, the uniformity of CD is improved, thus enabling the formation of an ultra fine pattern.

Top anti-reflective coating polymer, its preparation method and top anti-reflective coating composition comprising the same

Disclosed herein is a top anti-reflective coating composition comprising a bissulfone compound, as a photoacid generator, represented by Formula 1 below:  Since the top anti-reflective coating composition dissolves a portion of a photoacid generator present at the top of an underlying photosensitizer, particularly, upon formation of a top anti-reflective coating, it can prevent the top from being formed into a thick section. Therefore, the use of the anti-reflective coating composition enables the formation of a vertical pattern of a semiconductor device.

Top anti-reflective coating composition, method for forming the pattern of a semiconductor device using the same, and semiconductor device comprising the pattern

Disclosed herein is a top anti-reflective coating polymer and its composition comprising the same represented by Formula 1 below: 

Disclosed herein is a photoacid generating polymer represented by Formula 1 below: wherein Ris a Chydrocarbon or a Chydrocarbon in which the hydrogen atoms are wholly or partly replaced by fluorine atoms; Ris hydrogen or a methyl group; and a, b, c and d represent the mole fraction of each monomer and are in the range between about 0.05 and about 0.9, such that the sum of a, b, c, and d equals one. Since the photoacid generating polymer of Formula 1 is not water-soluble and acts as a photoacid generator, it can be used to prepare a top anti-reflective coating composition for immersion lithography.

Photoacid generating polymer, its preparation method, top anti-reflective coating composition comprising the same, method of forming a pattern in a semiconductor device, and semiconductor device

Disclosed herein is a top anti-reflective coating composition which comprises a photoacid generator represented by Formula 1 below.  Since the top anti-reflective coating composition dissolves a portion of a photoacid generator present at the top of an underlying photosensitizer, particularly, upon formation of a top anti-reflective coating, it can prevent the top from being formed into a thick section. Therefore, the use of the anti-reflective coating composition enables the formation of a vertical pattern on a semiconductor device.

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Chang Moon Lim