Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jae-Hyun Yeo

In-Sung Park

Young-sun Kim

Sung-Tae Kim

Ki-Vin Im

Jong-Cheol Lee

Young-Geun Park

Ki-Yeon Park

Gab-Jin Nam

Jeong-hee Chung

Gi-Vin Im

Cha-young Yoo

Jae-hyoung Choi

Ha-Jin Lim

Cha-Young Yoo

Yun-Jung Lee

Young-Wook Park

Jae-Jong Han

Yun-Seok Kim

Eun-Ae Chung

Seung-Hwan Lee

Seok-Jun Won

Jae-young Ahn

Jin-il Lee

Young-Sun Kim

Eun-ae Chung

Ki-yeon Park

Kwang-woo Lee

Kyoung-Ryul Yoon

Hoon-Sang Choi

Ki-Chul Kim

Sang-yeol Kang

Jin-tae Noh

Jae-Hyoung Choi

Kil-chul Kim

Jae-Suk Kwon

Eun-Seong Lee

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first gate structure on a substrate, the first gate structure including a gate insulation layer, a gate electrode, and a hard mask sequentially stacked on the substrate, forming a preliminary spacer layer on sidewalls of the first gate structure and the substrate, the preliminary spacer layer including silicon nitride, implanting molecular ions into the preliminary spacer layer to form a spacer layer having a dielectric constant lower than a dielectric constant of the preliminary spacer layer, anisotropically etching the spacer layer to form spacers on the sidewalls of the first gate structure, and forming impurity regions at upper portions of the substrate adjacent to the first gate structure.

Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device

Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices including multilayer dielectric layers are disclosed. The methods include forming a multilayer dielectric layer including metal atoms and silicon atoms on a semiconductor substrate. The multilayer dielectric layer includes at least two crystalline metal silicate layers having different silicon concentrations. The multilayer dielectric layer may be used, for example, as a dielectric layer for a capacitor, or as a blocking layer for a nonvolatile memory device.

Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices including multilayer dielectric layers

A method of forming a semiconductor device includes loading a semiconductor substrate into a reaction chamber, and providing metal organic precursors including hafnium and zirconium into the reaction chamber to form hafnium-zirconium oxide (HfZrO; 0&#x3c;X&#x3c;1) with a tetragonal crystalline structure on the semiconductor substrate. Related structures are also discussed.

Semiconductor devices having dielectric layers and methods of forming the same

In a method of manufacturing a dielectric structure, after a first dielectric layer is formed on a substrate by using a metal oxide doped with silicon, the substrate is placed on a susceptor of a chamber. By treating the first dielectric layer with a plasma in controlling a voltage difference between the susceptor and a ground, a second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer including a metal oxynitride doped with silicon having enough content of nitrogen is formed on the first dielectric layer. Therefore, dielectric properties of the dielectric structure comprising the first and the second dielectric layers can be improved and a leakage current can be greatly decreased. By adapting the dielectric structure to a gate insulation layer and/or to a dielectric layer of a capacitor or of a non-volatile semiconductor memory device, capacitances and electrical properties can be improved.

Method of forming a dielectric structure having a high dielectric constant and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having the dielectric structure

A multilayer electrode structure has a conductive layer including aluminum, an oxide layer formed on the conductive layer, and an oxygen diffusion barrier layer. The oxide layer includes zirconium oxide and/or titanium oxide. The oxygen diffusion barrier layer is formed at an interface between the conductive layer and the oxide layer by re-oxidizing the oxide layer. The oxygen diffusion barrier layer includes aluminum oxide.

Methods of forming capacitor structures having aluminum oxide diffusion barriers

In a method of forming a thin film and methods of manufacturing a gate structure and a capacitor, a hafnium precursor including one alkoxy group and three amino groups, and an oxidizing agent are provided on a substrate. The hafnium precursor is reacted with the oxidizing agent to form the thin film including hafnium oxide on the substrate. The hafnium precursor may be employed for forming a gate insulation layer of a transistor or a dielectric layer of a capacitor.

Method of forming a thin film, method of manufacturing a gate structure using the same and method of manufacturing a capacitor using the same

In a method of manufacturing a dielectric structure, after a tunnel oxide layer pattern is formed on a substrate, a floating gate is formed on the tunnel oxide layer. After a first dielectric layer pattern including a metal silicon oxide and a second dielectric layer pattern including a metal silicon oxynitride are formed, a control gate is formed on the dielectric structure. Since the dielectric structure includes at least one metal silicon oxide layer and at least one metal silicon oxynitride layer, the dielectric structure may have a high dielectric constant and a good thermal resistance. A non-volatile semiconductor memory device including the dielectric structure may have good electrical characteristics such as a large capacitance and a low leakage current.

Dielectric structures having high dielectric constants, and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices having the dielectric structures

Provided is a capacitor of a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. In one embodiment, the capacitor includes a lower electrode formed on a semiconductor substrate; a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode that is formed on the dielectric layer. The upper electrode includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer stacked sequentially. The first conductive layer comprises a metal layer, a conductive metal oxide layer, a conductive metal nitride layer, or a conductive metal oxynitride layer. The second conductive layer comprises a doped polysilicon germanium layer. The third conductive layer comprises a material having a lower resistance than that of the second conductive layer.

Capacitor of semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

Disclosed are methods of forming dielectric materials using atomic layer deposition (ALD) and methods of forming dielectric layers from such materials on a semiconductor device. The ALD process utilizes a first reactant containing at least one alkoxide group that is chemisorbed onto a surface of a substrate and then reacted with an activated oxidant that contains no hydroxyl group to form a dielectric material exhibiting excellent step coverage and improved leakage current characteristics.

Method of forming material using atomic layer deposition and method of forming capacitor of semiconductor device using the same

Methods and apparatus are provided for forming thin films for semiconductor devices, which enable supplying and removing reactants containing constituent elements of a thin film to be formed, by preheating and supplying a process gas and a purging gas at a predetermined temperature in forming the thin film on a substrate. For example, a method for forming a thin film includes supplying a first reactant to a chamber to chemically adsorb the first reactant onto a substrate, the first reactant being bubbled by a first gas that is preheated, purging the chamber to remove residues on the substrate having the first reactant chemically adsorbed, and forming the thin film by a means of chemical displacement by supplying a second reactant to the chamber to chemically adsorb the second reactant onto the substrate.

Methods and apparatus for forming thin films for semiconductor devices

A thin film is formed using an atomic layer deposition process, by introducing a first reacting material including tantalum precursors and titanium precursors onto a substrate. A portion of the first reacting material is chemisorbed onto the substrate. Then, a second reacting material including oxygen is introduced onto the substrate. A portion of the second reacting material is also chemisorbed onto the substrate, to form an atomic layer of a solid material on the substrate. The solid material may be used as a dielectric layer of the capacitor and/or a gate dielectric layer of the transistor.

Methods of forming atomic layers of a material on a substrate by sequentially introducing precursors of the material

In a method of forming an oxide layer using an atomic layer deposition and a method of forming a capacitor of a semiconductor device using the same, a precursor including an amino functional group is introduced onto a substrate to chemisorb a portion of the precursor on the substrate. Then, the non-chemisorbed precursor is removed. Thereafter, an oxidant is introduced onto the substrate to chemically react the chemisorbed precursor with the oxidant to form an oxide layer on the substrate. A deposition rate is fast and an oxide layer having a good deposition characteristic may be obtained. Also, a thin oxide film having a good step coverage and a decreased pattern loading rate can be formed.

Method of forming oxide layer using atomic layer deposition method and method of forming capacitor of semiconductor device using the same

Provided is a method for manufacturing semiconductor devices including channel trenches that are separated by isolation structures. According to the process, the substrate is etched to form isolation trenches after which a sidewall oxide layer, a liner nitride layer and a field oxide layer are subsequently formed on the substrate and in the isolation trenches. The substrate is then planarized to remove upper portions of the sidewall oxide layer, the liner nitride layer and the field oxide layer to expose surface portions of the substrate between adjacent isolation trench structures. Channel trenches are then formed in the exposed surface portions of the substrate leaving residual substrate regions adjacent the isolation trench structures. These residual substrate regions are then oxidized and removed to form improved second channel trenches for the formation of transistor regions.

Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device

Disclosed is a method for forming metal oxide dielectric layers, more particularly HfOdielectric layers, using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) method in which a series of thin intermediate layers are formed and treated with one or more oxidizers and nitrogents before the next intermediate layer is formed on the substrate. The intermediate oxidation treatments reduce the number of organic contaminants incorporated into the metal oxide layer from the organometallic precursors to produce a dielectric layer having improved current leakage characteristics. The dielectric layers formed in this manner remain susceptible to crystallization if exposed to temperatures much above 550&#xb0; C., so subsequent semiconductor manufacturing processes should be modified or eliminated to avoid such temperatures or limit the duration at such temperatures to maintain the performance of the dielectric materials.

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Jae-Hyun Yeo