Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Changwoo Oh

Myung Gil Kang

Sung-Dae Suk

Sungil Park

Heedon Jeong

Chiwon Cho

Dongwon Kim

Choong-Ho Lee

Keun Hwi Cho

Song-Yi Han

Kang-ill Seo

Jongwook Lee

Seung Chul Lee

Heesoo Kang

Dongil Bae

Seonah Nam

Bomsoo Kim

Toshinori Fukai

Donggu Yi

Hyungsuk Lee

Li Ming

Sangpil Sim

Jongshik Yoon

Ilryong Kim

Field effect transistors are provided. According to the field effect transistor, a source region and a drain region are provided on a substrate and a fin portion is provided to protrude from the substrate. The fin portion connects the source region and the drain region to each other. A gate electrode pattern is disposed on the fin portion and extends to cross over the fin portion. A gate dielectric layer is disposed between the fin portion and the gate electrode pattern. A semiconductor layer is disposed between the fin portion and the gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer and the fin portion have dopant-concentrations different from each other, respectively.

Field effect transistors including fin structures with different doped regions and semiconductor devices including the same

Embodiments of the inventive concepts provide a resistor and a semiconductor device including the same. The resistor includes a substrate, a device isolation layer in the substrate which defines active regions arranged in a first direction a resistance layer including resistance patterns that vertically protrude from the active regions and are connected to each other in the first direction, and contact electrodes on the resistance layer.

Resistor formed using resistance patterns and semiconductor devices including the same

A Field Effect Transistor (FET) structure may include a fin on a substrate having a first lattice constant and at least two different lattice constant layers on respective different axially oriented surfaces of the fin, wherein the at least two different lattice constant layers each comprise lattice constants that are different than the first lattice constant and each other.

Fin field effect transistors including multiple lattice constants and methods of fabricating the same

Semiconductor devices including a first transistor and a second transistor are integrated on a substrate. Each of the first and second transistors include a nano-sized active region including source and drain regions provided in respective end portions of the nano-sized active region and a channel forming region provided between the source and drain regions. The source and drain regions of the first transistor have the same conductivity type as those of the second transistor, and the second transistor has a threshold voltage lower than that of the first transistor. The channel forming region of the second transistor may include a homogeneously doped region, whose conductivity type is the same as the source and drain regions of the second transistor and is different from the channel forming region of the first transistor.

Integrated junction and junctionless nanotransistors

Provided is a semiconductor device, which includes a gate electrode crossing over a semiconductor fin disposed on a substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor fin, a channel region having a three dimensional structure defined in the semiconductor fin under the gate electrode, impurity regions disposed in the semiconductor fin at both sides of the gate electrode and spaced apart from the gate electrode, a first interlayer dielectric layer covering an entire surface of the substrate, except for the gate electrode, first contact plugs passing through the first interlayer dielectric layer and contacting the impurity regions, and a second interlayer dielectric layer covering the gate electrode and partially filling a space between the gate electrode and the impurity regions to define an air gap between the gate electrode and the impurity regions.

Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same

Provided are field effect transistors and methods of fabricating the same. The transistor may include a substrate with an active pattern, the active pattern having a top surface and two sidewalls, a gate electrode proximal to the top surface and the sidewalls of the active pattern and crossing the active pattern, a gate spacer covering a sidewall of the gate electrode, a gate dielectric pattern at a bottom surface of the gate electrode, a source electrode on the active pattern at one side of the gate electrode, a drain electrode on the active pattern at another side of the gate electrode, and silicide patterns on surfaces of the source and drain electrodes, respectively. The gate dielectric pattern includes at least one high-k layer and the gate spacer has a dielectric constant that is smaller than that of the gate dielectric pattern.

Field effect transistor and method of fabricating the same

Provided are methods of fabricating a semiconductor device including a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor. The methods include forming a gate pattern on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is etched using the gate pattern as an etching mask to form a pair of active trenches spaced apart from each other in the semiconductor substrate. Epitaxial layers are formed in the active trenches, respectively. The respective epitaxial layers are formed by sequentially stacking first and second layers. The first and second layers are formed of a semiconductor layer having a lattice constant greater than the semiconductor substrate, and a composition ratio of the second layer is different from that of the first layer. Semiconductor devices having the first and second layers are also provided.

Methods of fabricating devices including source/drain region with abrupt junction profile

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Changwoo Oh