Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jongsu Park

Sungil Moon

Yongmin Kim

Sunkak Jo

Kyungjae Park

Heonju Lee

Moojoon Shin

Moonjong Kang

Miyoun Kim

According to example embodiments, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming an etching target layer on a substrate; forming a first photoresist layer on the etching target layer; forming a first alignment key under the first photoresist layer and a first alignment pattern aligned in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, by exposing and developing the first photoresist layer; forming a second alignment key under the first photoresist layer and a second alignment pattern aligned in the first direction, by exposing and developing the first photoresist layer; and forming a third alignment key aligned with the first alignment key in the first direction under the first photoresist layer and a fourth alignment key aligned with the second alignment key in the first direction on the etching target layer based on the first and second alignment patterns.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a lower structure including first repetitive patterns, and forming an upper structure including forming second repetitive patterns to correspond to each of the first repetitive patterns on the lower structure, and the forming second repetitive patterns includes preparing a design layout for the second repetitive patterns, forming a first correction layout including corrected second repetitive patterns by performing optical proximity correction (OPC) on the design layout, forming a second correction layout by performing position correction on the first correction layout to move a position of the corrected second repetitive patterns to correspond to a changed position of the first repetitive patterns according to physical deformation of the lower structure, manufacturing a mask using the second correction layout, and patterning a photoresist layer using the mask.

Method of designing a mask and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same

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