Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hee-Sung Kang

Choong-Ryul Ryou

Byung-Sun Kim

Young-Gun Ko

Young-wug Kim

Young-Wug Kim

Hyuk-Ju Ryu

Sung-bae Park

Heon-jong Shin

Chang-Bong Oh

Myoung-hwan Oh

Young-Kwang Kim

Abraham Yoo

Mu-Kyoung Jung

Min-Su Kim

Nae-in Lee

Geum-Jong Bae

Jong-hyon Ahn

Yun-Hee Lee

Dal-Hee Lee

Suk-Joo Lee

Min-su Kim

Kwang-Il Kim

Kwang-il Kim

Joong-won Jeon

Mu-kyeng Jung

Kong-soo Cheong

Ki-seog Youn

Kyung-soo Kim

Tae-Woong Kang

Sung-Dae Park

Dae-Ho Yoon

Chang-Hyun Park

Woo-young Chung

You-Jean Chang

Jin-Hua Liu

A method of forming a pattern in a semiconductor device is described. A substrate divided into cell and peripheral regions is provided, and an object layer is formed on a substrate. A buffer pattern is formed on the object layer in the cell region along a first direction. A spacer is formed along a sidewall of the buffer pattern in the cell region, and a hard mask layer remains on the object layer in the peripheral region. The buffer layer is removed, and the spacer is separated along a second direction different from the first direction, thereby forming a cell hard mask pattern. A peripheral hard mask pattern is formed in the peripheral region. A minute pattern is formed using the cell and peripheral hard mask patterns in the substrate. Therefore, a line width variation or an edge line roughness due to the photolithography process is minimized.

Method of forming a pattern in a semiconductor device and method of forming a gate using the same

A semiconductor device includes a logic region disposed in a central region of the semiconductor device, and a peripheral region disposed in an outer region thereof. The logic region includes a line-shaped logic transistor and a box-shaped decoupling capacitor. The peripheral region includes a line-shaped peripheral transistor and a line-shaped peripheral dummy transistor disposed adjacent to the peripheral transistor.

Semiconductor device having decoupling capacitors and dummy transistors

A shared contact structure, semiconductor device and method of fabricating the semiconductor device, in which the shared contact structure may include a gate electrode disposed on an active region of a substrate and including facing first and second sidewalls. The first sidewall may be covered with an insulating spacer. The source/drain regions may be formed within the active region adjacent the first sidewall, and provided on the opposite side of the second sidewall. A corner protection pattern may be formed adjacent the source/drain regions and the insulating spacer, and covered by an inter-layer dielectric. A shared contact plug may be formed through the inter-layer dielectric, to be in contact with the gate electrode, corner protection pattern and source/drain regions.

Shared contact structure, semiconductor device and method of fabricating the semiconductor device

An SRAM cell that may reduce or eliminate floating body effect when using a SOI and a method for fabricating the same are provided. A floating body of an access transistor of the SRAM is connected to a source region of a driver transistor, for example, through a body extension region extending from an active region. A silicide layer may be formed or a ground line contact may be over-etched to form a conductive contact plug that may provide a current path between the body exterior regions and the source region of the driver transistor.

Methods for fabricating reduced floating body effect static random access memory cells

In a method of forming a semiconductor device, a copper diffusion-prevention layer is formed underneath a substrate. Impurity regions are formed on the surface of the substrate. A copper wiring is electrically connected to the impurity regions. The copper diffusion-prevention layer is formed before forming the lightly doped source/drain regions to prevent copper atoms from diffusing into the substrate.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

In a CMOS semiconductor device using a silicon germanium gate and a method of fabricating the same, a gate insulating layer, a conductive electrode layer that is a seed layer, a silicon germanium electrode layer, and an amorphous conductive electrode layer are sequentially formed on a semiconductor substrate. A photolithographic process is then carried out to remove the silicon germanium electrode layer in the NMOS region, so that the silicon germanium layer is formed only in the PMOS region and is not formed in the NMOS region.

CMOS transistor having different PMOS and NMOS gate electrode structures and method of fabrication thereof

In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having an alignment mark, a buffer layer is formed on a substrate. A trench is formed at an isolation region of the substrate. The trench is filled with an insulating layer. An alignment groove is formed on the insulating layer in a scribe lane region of the substrate. The buffer layer is removed to form an alignment pattern. An alignment mark includes the alignment pattern and the alignment groove. Therefore, the alignment pattern may be not attacked by solutions in a successive cleaning process such that the alignment mark may be not damaged and maintains its original shape.

Alignment mark and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having the same

A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device having improved performance includes a first device active region including at least one pair of transistor active regions wherein one transistor active region has a first width and the other transistor active region for forming a contact has a second width, a first gate arranged on the first device active region, a MOS transistor of a first conductivity type including a source/drain region of the first conductivity type formed in the first device active region, a second device active region having a third width greater than the first width, a second gate arranged on the second device active region, and a MOS transistor of a second conductivity type including a source/drain region of the second conductivity type formed in the second device active region.

CMOS device with improved performance and method of fabricating the same

There is provided a method of fabricating a MOS transistor having a fully silicided gate, including forming a gate pattern and gate spacers on a semiconductor substrate, the gate pattern including a lower gate pattern, an insulating layer pattern, and an upper gate pattern, which are sequentially stacked. Source/drain regions are formed by implanting impurity ions into an active region using the gate pattern and the gate spacers as ion implantation masks. Then, a protecting layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate having the gate pattern, and the protecting layer is planarized until the upper gate pattern is exposed. Then, by removing the exposed upper gate pattern and the insulating layer pattern, the lower gate pattern is exposed. Then, the protecting layer is selectively removed, thereby exposing the source/drain regions. The exposed lower gate pattern is fully converted to a gate silicide layer, and a silicide layer is concurrently formed on the surfaces of the source/drain regions.

Method of fabricating MOS transistor having fully silicided gate

Reduced floating body effect static random access memory cells and methods for fabricating the same

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a device including gate electrodes and asymmetric source and drain regions is formed by employing a semiconductor layer structure. The short channel effect is prevented in the resulting device even though the gate electrodes are of a dimension on the order of nanometers. Additionally, the gate electrodes and asymmetric source and drain regions of the semiconductor device may be precisely formed to have dimensions on the nanometer scale because a semiconductor layer structure is used in the process for manufacturing the semiconductor device.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

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