Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyunbae Lee

Sunghwan Kim

Wandon Kim

Geunwoo Kim

Sunyoung Noh

Dong-Chan Lim

GeumJung Seong

Yoon Tae Hwang

Bonghyun Choi

Jongmyeong Lee

Jongwon Hong

Donggon Yoo

Minjoo Lee

Woojin Lee

Wookyung You

Naein Lee

Byunghee Kim

Rakhwan Kim

Eui Bok Lee

Sang Hoon Ahn

Doo-Sung Yun

Vietha Nguyen

Jongchan Shin

Ki Chul Park

Seungseok Ha

Euibok Lee

Jeonghyuk Yim

Yoontae Hwang

Hyunwoo Kang

Seungyong Yoo

Seowoo Nam

Hyoseok Choi

Hoyun Jeon

Junki Park

A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an active region, a first interlayer insulating layer on the substrate, a first wiring in the first interlayer insulating layer that is electrically connected to the active region, an insulating pattern on the first interlayer insulating layer and that has a first opening exposing the first wiring, a double etch stop layer having lower and upper etch stop patterns on the insulating pattern and the first wiring, and including a second opening exposing a portion of the first wiring, a second interlayer insulating layer on the upper etch stop pattern and having a via hole connected to the second opening, the via hole having a rounded top corner region, a second wiring in the second interlayer insulating layer, and a via connecting the portion of the first wiring and the second wiring through the second opening and the via hole.

Semiconductor device with double etch stop layer and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device includes; a substrate including an active pattern, a channel pattern and a source/drain pattern on the active pattern, wherein the channel pattern is connected to the source/drain pattern, a gate electrode on the channel pattern, and a gate contact connected to a top surface of the gate electrode, wherein the gate contact includes a capping layer directly contacting the top surface of the gate electrode and a metal layer on the capping layer, wherein the capping layer and the metal layer include the same metal, a concentration of oxygen in the metal layer ranges from between about 2 at % to about 10 at %, and a maximum concentration of oxygen in the capping layer ranges from between about 15 at % to about 30 at %.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, a plurality of first vias in the first interlayer dielectric layer, a second interlayer dielectric layer on the first interlayer dielectric layer, and a first power line and a first lower line in the second interlayer dielectric layer that are electrically connected to respective ones of the first vias. A first width in a first direction of the first power line is greater than a second width in the first direction of the first lower line. The first power line includes a first metallic material. The first lower line includes a second metallic material. The first vias includes a third metallic material. The first, second, and third metallic materials are different from each other.

Semiconductor device

An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a conductive region including a first metal on a substrate. An insulating film is on the conductive region. A conductive plug including a second metal passes through the insulating film and extends in a vertical direction. A conductive barrier pattern is between the conductive region and the conductive plug. The conductive barrier pattern has a first surface in contact with the conductive region and a second surface in contact with the conductive plug. A bottom surface and a lower sidewall of the conductive plug are in contact with the conductive barrier pattern, and an upper sidewall of the conductive plug is in contact with the insulating film. The conductive barrier pattern includes a vertical barrier portion between the insulating film and the conductive plug, and the vertical barrier portion has a width tapering along a first direction away from the conductive region.

Integrated circuit device

A semiconductor device includes an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate, a first connection line that fills a first trench of the interlayer dielectric layer, the first trench having a first width, and a second connection line that fills a second trench of the interlayer dielectric layer, the second trench having a second width greater than the first width, and the second connection line including a first metal layer that covers an inner sidewall of the second trench, a barrier layer that covers a bottom surface of the second trench, and a second metal layer on the first metal layer and the barrier layer, the first connection line and the first metal layer include a first metal, and the second metal layer includes a second metal different from the first metal.

A semiconductor device including a substrate including an active pattern; a gate electrode crossing the active pattern and extending in a first direction; a source/drain pattern on the active pattern and adjacent to a side of the gate electrode; and an active contact in a contact hole on the source/drain pattern, wherein the active contact includes a first contact in a lower region of the contact hole, the first contact including a barrier pattern and a conductive pattern; a diffusion barrier layer on the first contact; and a second contact on the diffusion barrier layer, and a top surface of the diffusion barrier layer is coplanar with a top surface of the barrier pattern of the first contact.

Method of fabricating a semiconductor device

Semiconductor device with diffusion barrier in the active contact

A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device includes providing a first interlayer dielectric layer having a conductive pattern, sequentially forming a first etch stop layer, a second etch stop layer, a second interlayer dielectric layer and a mask pattern on the first interlayer dielectric layer, forming an opening in the second interlayer dielectric layer using the mask pattern as a mask, the opening exposing the second etch stop layer, and performing an etching process including simultaneously removing the mask pattern and the second etch stop layer exposed by the opening to expose the first etch stop layer.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device using a plurality of etch stop layers

In a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device comprises: a first insulating layer on an underlying contact region of the semiconductor device, the first insulating layer having an upper surface; a first conductive pattern in a first opening through the first insulating layer, an upper portion of the first conductive pattern being of a first width, an upper surface of the first conductive pattern being recessed relative to the upper surface of the first insulating layer so that the upper surface of the first conductive pattern has a height relative to the underlying contact region that is less than a height of the upper surface of the first insulating layer relative to the underlying contact region; and a second conductive pattern contacting the upper surface of the first conductive pattern, a lower portion of the second conductive pattern being of a second width that is less than the first width.

Semiconductor devices including interlayer conductive contacts and methods of forming the same

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