Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dong Suk Shin

Seok Hoon Kim

Cho Eun Lee

Seung Hun Lee

Hyun Jung Lee

Sun Jung Kim

Jin Bum Kim

Hyun Kwan Yu

Ki Hwan Kim

Gi Gwan Park

Jung Gun You

Jeong Ho Yoo

Tae Jin Park

Kyung Ho Kim

Min-Hee Choi

Sung Uk Jang

Pan Kwi Park

Il Gyou Shin

Dong Myoung Kim

Edward Nam Kyu Cho

Hyun Yul Choi

Hyo Jin Kim

Jin Wook Kim

Jong Min Lee

Gyeom Kim

Yang Xu

Dong Chan Suh

Ryong Ha

Hoi Sung Chung

Jun-Won Lee

Kang Hun Moon

Keum Seok Park

Chong-Kwang Chang

Nam Kyu Cho

Yong Seung Kim

Sang Gil Lee

Si Hyung Lee

Jae Myung Choe

Kong Soo Lee

Ha Kyu Seong

Yi Hwan Kim

Tae Sung Kang

Kyung Hee Kim

Ji Hye Yi

A semiconductor device including first fin-shaped patterns in a first region of a substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, second fin-shaped patterns in a second region of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, a first field insulating film on the substrate and covering sidewalls of the first fin-shaped patterns, a second field insulating film on the substrate and covering sidewalls of the second fin-shaped patterns, a first source/drain pattern on the first field insulating film, connected to the first fin-shaped patterns, and including a first silicon-germanium pattern, and a second source/drain pattern on the second field insulating film, connected to the second fin-shaped patterns, and including a second silicon-germanium pattern, the second source/drain pattern and the second field insulating film defining one or more first air gaps therebetween may be provided.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a first fin type pattern on a substrate, a second fin type pattern, parallel to the first fin type pattern, on the substrate, and an epitaxial pattern on the first and second fin type patterns. The epitaxial pattern may include a shared semiconductor pattern on the first fin type pattern and the second fin type pattern. The shared semiconductor pattern may include a first sidewall adjacent to the first fin type pattern and a second sidewall adjacent to the second fin type pattern. The first sidewall may include a first lower facet, a first upper facet on the first lower facet and a first connecting curved surface connecting the first lower and upper facets. The second sidewall may include a second lower facet, a second upper facet on the second lower facet and a second connecting curved surface connecting the second lower and upper facets.

Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include forming a gate structure on a core-peri region of a substrate. The substrate may further include a cell region. The methods may also include forming a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure, forming a first impurity region adjacent the gate spacer in the core-peri region of the substrate by performing a first ion implantation process, removing the gate spacer, forming a second impurity region in the core-peri region of the substrate between the gate structure and the first impurity region by performing a second ion implantation process, forming a stress film on the gate structure, an upper surface of the first impurity region, and an upper surface of the second impurity region, and forming a recrystallization region by crystallizing the first impurity region and the second impurity region by performing an annealing process.

Methods of fabricating semiconductor device

A precleaning apparatus includes a chamber having an internal space in which a substrate is cleaned, a substrate support disposed in the chamber and configured to support the substrate, a plasma generation unit disposed in the chamber and configured to generate plasma gas, a heating unit configured to heat the substrate on the substrate support, a cleaning gas supply unit configured to supply gas for oxide etching to the internal space of the chamber, and a hydrogen gas supply unit configured to supply hydrogen gas to the internal space of the chamber.

Precleaning apparatus and substrate processing system

Semiconductor device including a shared semiconductor pattern having faceted sidewalls and method for fabricating the same

There is provided a semiconductor device capable of enhancing short channel effect by forming a carbon-containing semiconductor pattern in a source/drain region. The semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode spaced apart from each other on a fin-type pattern, a recess formed in the fin-type pattern between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, and a semiconductor pattern including a lower semiconductor film formed along a profile of the recess and an upper semiconductor film on the lower semiconductor film, wherein the lower semiconductor film includes a lower epitaxial layer and an upper epitaxial layer sequentially formed on the fin-type pattern, and a carbon concentration of the upper epitaxial layer is greater than a carbon concentration of the lower epitaxial layer.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

A semiconductor device includes a field insulating film including a first region and a second region on a substrate, a recess in the first region of the field insulating film, a gate electrode on the second region of the field insulating film, and a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate electrode and a sidewall of the recess.

Semiconductor device with fin-type patterns

A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a channel pattern on a substrate, the channel pattern extending in a first direction; a gate pattern on the substrate, the gate pattern extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and surrounding the channel pattern; and an interface layer between the channel pattern and the gate pattern, the interface layer being formed on at least one surface of an upper surface and a lower surface of the channel pattern.

Semiconductor device including channel pattern and manufacturing method thereof

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a dummy gate electrode on a substrate, forming a trench on a side surface of the dummy gate electrode, performing a bake process of removing an impurity from the trench and forming a source/drain in the trench, wherein the bake process comprises a first stage and a second stage following the first stage, an air pressure in which the substrate is disposed during the first stage is different from an air pressure in which the substrate is disposed during the second stage, and the bake process is performed while the substrate is on a stage rotating the substrate, wherein a revolution per minute (RPM) of the substrate during the first stage is different from a revolution per minute (RPM) of the substrate during the second stage.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, first through fourth gate electrodes, and first through fifth fin active pattern. A first recess which is formed in the substrate between the first and second gate electrodes intersecting the second fin active pattern, is filled with a first source/drain region, and has a first depth in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions. A second recess which is formed in the substrate between the third and fourth gate electrodes intersecting the second fin active pattern, is filled with a second source/drain region, and has a second depth in the third direction. A third recess which is formed in the substrate between the second and third gate electrodes intersecting the second fin active pattern, is filled with a third source/drain region, and has a third depth in the third direction. The third depth is greater than the first and second depths.

Multi-gate transistor

A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having an active region; a gate structure disposed in the active region; source/drain regions respectively formed within portions of the active region disposed on both sides of the gate structure; a metal silicide layer disposed on a surface of each of the source/drain regions; and contact plugs disposed on the source/drain regions and electrically connected to the source/drain regions through the metal silicide layer, respectively. The metal silicide layer is formed so as to have a monocrystalline structure.

The semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising first and second regions, in the first region, first and second gate electrodes formed parallel to each other on the substrate, and being spaced apart from each other by a first distance, in the second region, third and fourth gate electrodes formed parallel to each other on the substrate, and being spaced apart from each other by a second distance which is greater than the first distance, in the first region, a first recess formed on the substrate between the first and second gate electrodes, in the second region, a second recess formed on the substrate between the third and fourth gate electrodes, a first epitaxial source/drain filling the first recess and a second epitaxial source/drain filling the second recess, wherein an uppermost portion of an upper surface of the first epitaxial source/drain is higher than an uppermost portion of an upper surface of the second epitaxial source/drain.

Semiconductor device having fin-type patterns

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising first and second regions, in the first region, first and second gate electrodes formed parallel to each other on the substrate, and being spaced apart from each other by a first distance, in the second region, third and fourth gate electrodes formed parallel to each other on the substrate, and being spaced apart from each other by a second distance which is greater than the first distance, in the first region, a first recess formed on the substrate between the first and second gate electrodes, in the second region, a second recess formed on the substrate between the third and fourth gate electrodes, a first epitaxial source/drain filling the first recess and a second epitaxial source/drain filling the second recess, wherein an uppermost portion of an upper surface of the first epitaxial source/drain is higher than an uppermost portion of an upper surface of the second epitaxial source/drain.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions, a first fin-type pattern and a second fin-type pattern formed in the first region and extending in a first direction, and a third fin-type pattern and a fourth fin-type pattern formed in the second region and extending in a third direction. A first source/drain is formed on the first fin-type pattern and a second source/drain region is formed on the second fin-type pattern. Each of first and second source/drains have a cross section defining a same convex polygonal shape. A third source/drain is formed on the third fin-type pattern and a fourth source/drain region is formed on the fourth fin-type pattern. Cross-sections of the third and fourth source/drains define different convex polygonal shapes from one another.

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Dong Suk Shin