Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Daeik Kim

Yoosang Hwang

Jemin Park

Bong-Soo Kim

Hui-Jung Kim

Keunnam Kim

Hyun-Woo Chung

Eunjung Kim

Taejin Park

Hyeongsun Hong

Semyeong Jang

Jiyoung Kim

Yongchul Oh

Kang-Uk Kim

Nakjin Son

Kiseok Lee

Dong Jin Lee

Boun Yoon

Sunghee Han

Chan-Sic Yoon

Byoungho Kwon

Sungho Jang

Kyung-Eun Kim

Sooho Shin

Hyoungsub Kim

Young-Seung Cho

Sung-Min Cho

Jihye Hwang

Gyoyoung Jin

Kyuhyun Lee

Nara Kim

Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a stack structure on the substrate. The stack structure includes a first insulating material and a second insulating material that is on the first insulating material. The semiconductor device includes a spacer that extends from a sidewall of the first insulating material of the stack structure to a portion of a sidewall of the second insulating material of the stack structure. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a conductive line that is on the spacer. Methods of forming semiconductor devices are also provided.

Semiconductor devices and methods of forming semiconductor devices

A semiconductor memory device includes word lines extending in a first direction on a semiconductor substrate, bit line structures crossing over the word lines and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and contact pad structures between the word lines and between the bit line structures in plan view. A spacer structure extends between the bit line structures and the contact pad structures. The spacer structure includes a first air gap extending in the second direction along sidewalls of the bit line structures and a second air gap surrounding each of the contact pad structures and coupled to the first air gap.

Semiconductor memory device

A volatile memory device can include a bit line structure having a vertical side wall. A lower spacer can be on a lower portion of the vertical side wall, where the lower spacer can be defined by a first thickness from the vertical side wall to an outer side wall of the lower spacer. An upper spacer can be on an upper portion of the vertical side wall above the lower portion, where the upper spacer can be defined by a second thickness that is less than the first thickness, the upper spacer exposing an uppermost portion of the outer side wall of the lower spacer.

Semiconductor memory devices including separate upper and lower bit line spacers and methods of forming the same

Semiconductor memory devices including separate upper and lower bit line spacers

A method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes forming a bit line and a bit line capping pattern on the semiconductor substrate, forming a first spacer covering a sidewall of the bit line capping pattern and a sidewall of the bit line, forming a contact plug in contact with a sidewall of the first spacer and having a top surface that is lower than an upper end of the first spacer, removing an upper portion of the first spacer, forming a first sacrificial layer closing at least an entrance of the void, forming a second spacer covering the sidewall of the bit line capping pattern and having a bottom surface in contact with a top surface of the first spacer, and removing the first sacrificial layer. The bit line capping pattern is on the bit line. The contact plug includes a void exposed on the top surface.

Methods of fabricating semiconductor memory devices

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a bit line structure on the substrate, a first contact structure on a sidewall of the bit line structure, a second contact structure on the bit line structure and spaced apart from the first contact structure across the bit line structure, and an insulation pattern between the bit line structure and the first contact structure. The second contact structure covers at least a portion of a top surface of the bit line structure. The insulation pattern comprises a protrusion that protrudes from a sidewall of the insulation pattern that immediately adjacent to the bit line structure. The protrusion protrudes in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate.

Semiconductor device includes a substrate having conductive contact structures thereon

Methods of fabricating a memory device are provided. The methods may include forming a mask pattern including line-shaped portions that are parallel to each other and extend on a first region of a substrate. The mask pattern may extend on a second region of the substrate. The methods may also include forming word line regions in the first region using the mask pattern as a mask, forming word lines in the word line regions, respectively, and removing the mask pattern from the second region to expose the second region. The mask pattern may remain on the first region after removing the mask pattern from the second region. The methods may further include forming a channel epitaxial layer on the second region while using the mask pattern as a barrier to growth of the channel epitaxial layer on the first region.

Methods of fabricating memory devices

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include etching a bulk pattern on a peripheral region to form patterns and then forming a layer on both a cell region and a peripheral region. The methods may include forming line patterns that extend from the cell region onto the peripheral region and then forming a layer on both the cell region and a peripheral region.

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device

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