Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

KyoungWoo Lee

Juyoung Jung

Il Gyu Kim

Jinnam Kim

Hoonjoo Na

Wookyung You

Rakhwan Kim

Jinhyung Park

Kichul Park

Chin Woo Kim

WooJin Jang

Anthony Dongick Lee

Sangcheol Na

Kyoungpil Park

Seonghun Lim

Jaemyung Choi

Yoonsuk Kim

Eunji Jung

Doohwan Park

Minkwon Choi

A semiconductor device includes a substrate. A wiring layer is over the substrate. A first via structure directly contacts a lower portion of the wiring layer. A second via structure directly contacts an upper portion of the wiring layer. The first via structure generates first stress in the wiring layer. The second via structure generates second stress in the wiring layer. The second stress is of an opposite type to the first stress. The first stress and the second stress compensate for each other in the wiring layer.

Semiconductor device including via structure

Disclosed is a semiconductor device fabrication method including forming an interlayer dielectric layer and a lower mask layer on a substrate, forming on the lower mask layer first and second upper mask patterns spaced apart from each other in a first direction, wherein each of the first and second upper mask patterns has a line part extending in a second direction and a first protruding part protruding from the line part, forming a spacer covering sidewalls of the line parts of the first and second upper mask patterns and a filling pattern filling a space between the first protruding parts of the first and second upper mask patterns, etching the lower mask layer to form lower mask patterns, etching the interlayer dielectric layer to form grooves on the interlayer dielectric layer, and forming wiring lines in the grooves.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device

A semiconductor device including a transistor on a substrate; an interlayer insulating layer on the transistor; a first metal-containing layer on the interlayer insulating layer; and a second metal-containing layer on the first metal-containing layer, wherein the second metal-containing layer includes a resistor, the resistor includes a first insulating layer on the first metal-containing layer; a resistor metal layer on the first insulating layer; and a second insulating layer on the resistor metal layer, and the resistor metal layer includes a recessed side surface.

Semiconductor device

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including forming an insulating structure, forming a hard mask layer on the insulating structure, performing a first etching process to form a first opening at the hard mask layer, forming a first sacrificial pattern in the first opening, forming, on the hard mask layer, a first photoresist pattern including a second opening and a third opening, the second opening exposing a top surface of the first sacrificial pattern, the third opening exposing a top surface of the hard mask layer, and performing a second etching process using the first photoresist pattern as an etch mask may be provided.

Semiconductor device including conductive line and method for manufacturing the same

A method of forming a metal interconnection of semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a low-k dielectric layer including an opening; forming a barrier metal pattern conformally covering a bottom surface and an inner sidewall of the opening; forming a metal pattern exposing a part of the inner sidewall of the barrier metal pattern in the opening; forming a metal capping layer on the top surfaces of the metal pattern and the low-k dielectric layer using a selective chemical vapor deposition process, wherein the thickness of the metal capping layer on the metal pattern is greater than the thickness of the metal capping layer on the low-k dielectric layer; and forming a metal capping pattern covering the top surface of the metal pattern by planarizing the metal capping layer down to the top surface of the low-k dielectric layer.

Method of forming metal interconnections of semiconductor device

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

KyoungWoo Lee