Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Chunhyung Chung

Daehyun Kim

Sungmi Yoon

Hoon Mo Park

Satoru Yamada

Dong-Hyun Im

Junsoo Kim

Jae-Hong Seo

Donghyun Im

Juhyung We

Jae-Joong Choi

Jooyub Kim

Honglae Park

Naoto Umezawa

Namhoon Lee

Min Hee Cho

Seunghwan Lee

Sunjung Kim

Moonyoung Jeong

Wonseok Yoo

Bongjin Kuh

Kyo-Suk Chae

Daeyoung Moon

Youngsun Kim

Jamin Koo

Jinwon Ma

Hyoshin Ahn

Joohyun Jeon

Kyuwan Kim

Sungsam Lee

Eunae Choi

Hoonsang Choi

Sangwook Lim

A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; an isolation layer in a first trench, defining an active region of the substrate; a gate structure in a second trench intersecting the active region; and first and second impurity regions spaced apart from each other by the gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer in the second trench; a first metal layer on the gate dielectric layer; and a gate capping layer on the first metal layer. The gate dielectric layer includes Dand NDin an interface region, adjacent the first metal layer, and D is deuterium, N is nitrogen, and Dis positively-charged deuterium.

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same

An integrated circuit device includes; word lines extending in a first direction across a substrate and spaced apart in a second direction different from the first direction, bit lines extending on the word lines in the second direction and spaced apart in the first direction, a first contact plug arranged among the bitlines, contacting a first active region of the substrate, having a first width, and having a first dopant concentration, and a second contact plug arranged among the bitlines, contacting a second active region of the substrate, having a second width, and having a second dopant concentration less than the first dopant concentration.

Integrated circuit device

A semiconductor device may include active pattern, a silicon liner, an insulation layer, an isolation pattern and a transistor. The active pattern may protrude from a substrate. The silicon liner having a crystalline structure may be formed conformally on surfaces of the active pattern and the substrate. The insulation layer may be formed on the silicon liner. The isolation pattern may be formed on the insulation layer to fill a trench adjacent to the active pattern. The transistor may include a gate structure and impurity regions. The gate structure may be disposed on the silicon liner, and the impurity regions may be formed at the silicon liner and the active pattern adjacent to both sides of the gate structure.

Semiconductor devices including a liner and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device may include a substrate including a recess, a gate insulation layer on a surface of the recess, an impurity barrier layer on a surface of the gate insulation layer to cover the surface of the gate insulation layer, a first gate pattern on impurity barrier layer to fill a lower portion of the recess, a second gate pattern on the first gate pattern in the recess, a capping insulation pattern on the second gate pattern to fill the recess, and impurity regions at the substrate adjacent to an upper sidewall of the recess. The impurity barrier layer may have a concentration of nitrogen higher than a concentration of nitrogen included in the gate insulation layer. The second gate pattern may include a material different from a material of the first gate pattern. A lower surface of the impurity regions may be higher than an upper surface of the first gate pattern. Thus, the semiconductor device may have good characteristics.

Semiconductor devices having an insulation layer in a recess and an impurity barrier layer extending along the insulation layer

Semiconductor devices including a silicon liner on an active pattern and method of manufacturing the same

A method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes etching a substrate that forms a trench that crosses active regions of the substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on bottom and side surfaces of the trench, forming a first gate electrode on the gate insulating layer that fills a lower portion of the trench, oxidizing a top surface of the first gate electrode where a preliminary barrier layer is formed, nitrifying the preliminary barrier layer where a barrier layer is formed, and forming a second gate electrode on the barrier layer that fills an upper portion of the trench.

Semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same

Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including: patterning a substrate to form a plurality of active patterns including two adjacent active patterns having a first trench therebetween; forming a semiconductor layer on the plurality of active patterns to cover the plurality of active patterns; forming a device isolation layer on the semiconductor layer to cover the semiconductor layer for oxidization and fill the first trench; patterning the device isolation layer and the plurality of active patterns so that a second trench intersecting the first trench is formed and the two active patterns protrudes from the device isolation layer in the second trench; and forming a gate electrode in the second trench. Here, a first thickness of the semiconductor layer covering a top surface of each of the two active patterns is greater than a second thickness of the semiconductor layer covering a bottom of the first trench.

Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate including a trench, the semiconductor substrate having a crystal structure; and an insulating layer covering an inner sidewall of the trench, wherein the inner sidewall of the trench has at least one plane included in a {320} family of planes of the crystal structure or at least one plane similar to the {320} family of planes.

In one embodiment, the method of forming a dielectric layer includes supplying a first precursor at a temperature less than 400 degrees Celsius to a chamber including a substrate. The first precursor includes dysprosium. A first reaction gas is supplied to the chamber to react with the first precursor. A second precursor is supplied at a temperature less than 400 degrees Celsius to the chamber, and the second precursor includes scandium. A second reaction gas is supplied to the chamber to react with the second precursor.

Method of forming dielectric including dysprosium and scandium by atomic layer deposition and integrated circuit device including the dielectric layer

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Chunhyung Chung