Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Joong S Jeon

Chang-Wook Moon

Hyun-deok Yang

Nae-in Lee

Hwa-Sung Rhee

Sung-ho Park

Jin-seo Noh

Eun-ju Bae

El Mostafa Bourim

Weiwei Chen

Ho Young Lee

Jung-hyun Lee

Suk-Pil Kim

Jun-youn Kim

Se-Young Cho

Yeon-Sik Park

A field effect transistor having at least one Ge nanorod and a method of manufacturing the field effect transistor are provided. The field effect transistor may include a gate insulation layer formed on a silicon substrate, at least one nanorod embedded in the gate insulation layer having both ends thereof exposed, a source electrode and a drain electrode connected to opposite sides of the at least one Ge nanorod, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulation layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode.

Field effect transistor having germanium nanorod and method of manufacturing the same

Provided is a CMOS transistor formed using Ge condensation and a method of fabricating the same. The CMOS transistor may include an insulating layer, a silicon layer on the insulating layer and including a p-MOS transistor region and an n-MOS transistor region, a first gate insulating layer and a first gate on a channel region of the p-MOS transistor region, and a second gate insulating layer and a second gate on a channel region of the n-MOS transistor region, wherein a source region and a drain region of the p-MOS transistor region may be tensile-strained due to Ge condensation, and the channel region of the n-MOS transistor region may be tensile-strained due to the Ge condensation.

CMOS transistor using germanium condensation and method of fabricating the same

Example embodiments relate to a method of forming a germanium (Ge) silicide layer, a semiconductor device including the Ge silicide layer, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. A method of forming a Ge silicide layer according to example embodiments may include forming a metal layer including vanadium (V) on a silicon germanium (SiGe) layer. The metal layer may have a multiple-layer structure and may further include at least one of platinum (Pt) and nickel (Ni). The metal layer may be annealed to form the germanium silicide layer. The annealing may be performed using a laser spike annealing (LSA) method.

Germanium silicide layer including vanadium, platinum, and nickel

Nonvolatile memory devices may be fabricated to include a switching device on a substrate and/or a storage node electrically connected to the switching device. A storage node may include a lower metal layer electrically connected to the switching device, a first insulating layer, a middle metal layer, a second insulating layer, an upper metal layer, a carbon nanotube layer, and/or a passivation layer stacked on the lower metal layer.

Methods of fabricating non-volatile memory devices having carbon nanotube layer and passivation layer

Provided is a semiconductor device that comprises a metal gate having a low sheet resistance characteristic and a high diffusion barrier characteristic and a method of fabricating the metal gate of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a metal gate formed on a gate insulating film, wherein the metal gate is formed of a metal nitride that contains Al or Si and includes upper and lower portions where the content of Al or Si is relatively high and a central portion where the content of Al or Si is relatively low.

Semiconductor device having a metal gate with a low sheet resistance and method of fabricating metal gate of the same

Provided is a method of fabricating a Schottky barrier transistor. The method includes (a) forming a pair of cavities for forming a source forming portion and a drain forming portion having a predetermined depth and parallel to each other and a channel forming portion having a fin shape between the cavities in a substrate;

Method of fabricating Schottky barrier transistor

Example embodiments may provide nonvolatile memory devices and example methods of fabricating nonvolatile memory devices. Example embodiment nonvolatile memory devices may include a switching device on a substrate and/or a storage node electrically connected to the switching device. A storage node may include a lower metal layer electrically connected to the switching device, a first insulating layer, a middle metal layer, a second insulating layer, an upper metal layer, a carbon nanotube layer, and/or a passivation layer stacked on the lower metal layer.

Nonvolatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same

Method of forming a germanium silicide layer, semiconductor device including the germanium silicide layer, and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device

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Joong S Jeon