Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Koung Min Ryu

Sung Soo Kim

Gi Gwan Park

Sang Jin Hyun

Sun Jung Lee

Dong Hyun Roh

Jung Hun Choi

Kyu-Hee Han

Jong Min Baek

Sun Ki Min

Sang Shin Jang

Jun Hyuk Lim

Sang Koo Kang

Jung Hwan Chun

Bong Kwan Baek

Jung Hoo Shin

Semiconductor devices with improved performance and reliability and methods for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor devices include an active pattern extending in a first direction, gate structures spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the active pattern, a source/drain pattern on the active pattern, a source/drain contact on the source/drain pattern, and a contact liner extending along a sidewall of the source/drain contacts. A carbon concentration of the contact liner at a first point of the contact liner is different from a carbon concentration of the contact liner at a second point of the contact liner, and the first point is at a first height from an upper surface of the active pattern, the second point is at a second height from the upper surface of the active pattern, and the first height is smaller than the second height.

Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region, and a second region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure on the substrate of the first region, a third gate structure and a fourth gate structure on the substrate of the second region, a first interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the first region and including a first lower interlayer insulating film and a first upper interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the second region and including a second lower interlayer insulating film and a second upper interlayer insulating film, a first contact between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and within the first interlayer insulating film, and a second contact formed between the third gate structure and the fourth gate structure and within the second interlayer insulating film.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes an active fin on a substrate, a device isolation film covering a lower portion of the active fin, a gate structure covering the active fin and the device isolation film, and a gate spacer on a side wall of the gate structure, wherein a side wall of the gate structure disposed on the device isolation film is inclined at a uniform inclination from a point higher than a half of a height of the gate structure to a bottom of the gate structure, and an inner side wall of the gate spacer on the device isolation film is inclined at a uniform inclination from a point higher than a half of a height of the gate spacer to a bottom of the gate spacer while forming an acute angle with a bottom surface of the gate spacer.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first to third regions, wherein the third region is positioned in a first direction between the first and second regions, a fin protruding on the substrate and extending in the first direction, first and second gate structures respectively formed on the fin in the first and second regions, first and second spacers formed with spacing apart from each other on the fin in the third region. The first and second spacers are sloped in a direction away from each other, and the first and second spacers and an upper surface of the fin define a plurality of acute angles, the first and second spacers defining a recess, the fin and the first and second spacers defining sidewalls of the recess, and a device isolating film substantially filling the recess.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

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Koung Min Ryu