Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyunchul Yoon

Yeongshin Park

Jungheun Hwang

Joonghee Kim

Jihee Kim

Seungjae Lee

Sangwuk Park

Joonkyu Rhee

Jungpyo Hong

Chanmin Lee

Mincheol Kwak

Yuna Lee

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating layer and a peripheral structure on first and second regions of the substrate, forming first and second mask layers on the insulating layer and the peripheral structure, patterning the first and second mask layers to form first and second mask structures on the first and second regions, etching the insulating layer using the first and second mask structures as an etching mask, to form insulating patterns, forming a sacrificial layer in spaces between two adjacent insulating patterns on the first region, removing the second mask pattern on the first region by a dry etching process, forming an anti-oxidation layer on a surface of the second mask layer on the second region after removing the second mask pattern on the first region, and removing the second mask layer with the anti-oxidation layer by a wet etching process.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes bit line structures disposed on a substrate, each bit line structure comprising a bit line and an insulating spacer structure, buried contacts which fill lower portions of spaces between bit line structures in the substrate, and landing pads which fill upper portions of the spaces, extend from upper surfaces of the buried contacts to upper surfaces of the bit line structures, and are spaced apart from each other by insulating structures. A first insulating structure is disposed between a first landing pad and a first bit line structure. The first insulating structure includes a sidewall extending along a sidewall of the first landing pad toward the substrate. In a direction extending toward the substrate, the sidewall of the first insulating structure gets closer to a first sidewall of the first bit line structure.

Semiconductor devices having air spacer

In order to manufacture an integrated circuit device, a feature layer is formed on a substrate in a first area for forming a plurality of chips and in a second area surrounding the first area. The feature layer has a step difference in the second area. On the feature layer, a hard mask structure including a plurality of hard mask layers stacked on each other is formed. In the first area and the second area, a protective layer covering the hard mask structure is formed. On the protective layer, a photoresist layer is formed. A photoresist pattern is formed by exposing and developing the photoresist layer in the first area by using the step difference in the second area as an alignment key.

Method of manufacturing integrated circuit device

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Hyunchul Yoon