Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jihoon Chang

Yeonjin Lee

Jung-Hoon Han

Jimin Choi

Hyeon-Woo Jang

Junghoon Han

Minjung Choi

Juik Lee

Junwoo Lee

Joongwon Shin

Jong-Min Lee

Dong-Wan Kim

Jiho Kim

Dong-sik Park

Young-Yong Byun

Joonsuk Park

Keonhee Park

Disclosed are semiconductor devices and their fabrication methods. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate including a peripheral block and cell blocks each including a cell center region, a cell edge region, and a cell middle region, and bit lines extending on each cell block in a first direction. The bit lines include center bit lines, middle bit lines, and edge bit lines. The bit line has first and second lateral surfaces opposite to each other in a second direction. The first lateral surface straightly extends along the first direction on the cell center region, the cell middle region, and the cell edge region. The second lateral surface straightly extends along the first direction on the cell center region and the cell edge region, and the second lateral surface extends along a third direction, that intersects the first direction and the second direction, on the cell middle region.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A detection pad structure in a semiconductor device may include a lower wiring on a substrate, an upper wiring on the lower wiring, and a first pad pattern on the upper wiring. The upper wiring may be connected to the lower wiring and include metal patterns and via contacts on the metal patterns that are stacked in a plurality of layers. The first pad pattern may be connected to the upper wiring. A semiconductor device may include an actual upper wiring including actual metal patterns and actual via contacts stacked in a plurality of layers. At least one of the metal patterns of each layer in the upper wiring may have a minimum line width and a minimum space of the metal patterns of each layer in the actual upper wiring. Metal patterns and via contacts of each layer in the upper wiring may be regularly and repeatedly arranged.

Detection pad structure for analysis in a semiconductor device

The method includes forming a first dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a via in the first dielectric layer, sequentially forming a first metal pattern, a first metal oxide pattern, a second metal pattern, and an antireflective pattern on the first dielectric layer, and performing an annealing process to react the first metal oxide pattern and the second metal pattern with each other to form a second metal oxide pattern. The forming the second metal oxide pattern includes forming the second metal oxide pattern by a reaction between a metal element of the second metal pattern and an oxygen element of the first metal oxide pattern.

A semiconductor device including a substrate including a chip region and an edge region; integrated circuit elements on the chip region; an interlayer insulating layer covering the integrated circuit elements; an interconnection structure on the interlayer insulating layer and having a side surface on the edge region; a first and second conductive pattern on the interconnection structure, the first and second conductive patterns being electrically connected to the interconnection structure; a first passivation layer covering the first and second conductive patterns and the side surface of the interconnection structure; and a second passivation layer on the first passivation layer, wherein the second passivation layer includes an insulating material different from the first passivation layer, and, between the first and second conductive patterns, the second passivation layer has a bottom surface that is located at a vertical level lower than a top surface of the first conductive pattern.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of middle interconnections and a plurality of middle plugs, which are disposed in an interlayer insulating layer and on a substrate. An upper insulating layer is disposed on the interlayer insulating layer. A first upper plug, a first upper interconnection, a second upper plug, and a second upper interconnection are disposed in the upper insulating layer. Each of the plurality of middle interconnections has a first thickness. The first upper interconnection has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The second upper interconnection has a third thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The third thickness is twice to 100 times the first thickness. The second upper interconnection includes a material different from the second upper plug.

Semiconductor devices including a thick metal layer

Semiconductor packages may include a semiconductor chip on a substrate and an under-fill layer between the semiconductor chip and the substrate. The semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor substrate including first and second regions, and an interlayer dielectric layer that may cover the semiconductor substrate and may include connection lines. First conductive pads may be on the first region and may be electrically connected to some of the connection lines. Second conductive pads may be on the second region and may be electrically isolated from all of the connection lines. The semiconductor chip may also include a passivation layer that may cover the interlayer dielectric layer and may include holes that may expose the first and second conductive pads, respectively. On the second region, the under-fill layer may include a portion that may be in one of the first holes and contact one of the second conductive pads.

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