Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Heesook Cheon

Boun Yoon

Jonghyuk Park

Ilyoung Yoon

Yanghee Lee

Yoonyoung Choi

Seungjin Kim

Tae-Kyu Kim

Byung-Hyun Lee

Hyun-Sil Hong

Bo-Wo Choi

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second region, a bit line structure on the first region, key structures on the second region, each key structure having an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the bit line structure, a first trench disposed between two adjacent key structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a filling pattern in a lower portion of the first trench, the filling pattern having a flat upper surface and including a first conductive material, and a first conductive structure on the flat upper surface of the filling pattern, an upper sidewall of the first trench, and the upper surface of each of the plurality of key structures, the first conductive structure including a second conductive material.

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including preparing a substrate including a wafer inner region and a wafer edge region, the wafer inner region including a chip region and a scribe lane region, sequentially stacking a mold layer and a supporting layer on the substrate, forming a first mask layer on the supporting layer, the first mask layer including a first stepped region on the wafer edge region, forming a step-difference compensation pattern on the first stepped region, forming a second mask pattern including openings, on the first mask layer and the step-difference compensation pattern, and sequentially etching the first mask layer, the supporting layer, and the mold layer using the second mask pattern as an etch mask to form a plurality of holes in at least the mold layer may be provided.

Method of fabricating a semiconductor device

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Heesook Cheon