Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kyungbin Chun

Jinbum Kim

Dahye Kim

Gyeom Kim

Sangmoon Lee

An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a fin-type active region, a channel region on the fin-type active region, a gate line surrounding the channel region, an outer insulating spacer covering a sidewall of the gate line, a source/drain region on the fin-type active region, wherein the source/drain region includes a buffer layer including a portion in contact with the channel region and a portion in contact with the fin-type active region, the buffer layer including an edge buffer portion having a smaller thickness than other portions thereof at a position adjacent to the outer insulating spacer, a local buffer pattern including a wedge portion, the wedge portion filling a space defined by the edge buffer portion and the outer insulating spacer, and a main body layer in contact with each of the buffer layer and the local buffer pattern.

Integrated circuit device

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate including an active region; a gate structure intersecting the active region on the substrate; channel layers on the active region, spaced apart from each other and surrounded by the gate structure; and a source/drain region on the active region adjacent the gate structure and connected to the plurality of channel layers. The source/drain region includes: a first semiconductor layer on side surfaces of the channel layers; a diffusion barrier layer on an upper region of the first semiconductor layer and including carbon, wherein an upper surface of a first channel layer that is a lowermost channel layer among the plurality of channel layers is provided between the substrate and a lower end of the diffusion barrier layer; and a second semiconductor layer on the diffusion barrier layer and the first semiconductor layer.

Semiconductor devices

A semiconductor device includes an active region, a plurality of channel layers disposed to be spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction on the active region, a gate structure extending in a second direction to intersect the active region and the plurality of channel layers and surrounding the plurality of channel layers, a source/drain region disposed on the active region on at least one side of the gate structure and contacting the plurality of channel layers, and a contact plug connected to the source/drain region. The source/drain region includes a first epitaxial layer disposed on the active region and extending to contact the plurality of channel layers, second epitaxial layers disposed on the first epitaxial layer, each including impurities in a first concentration, and doping layers stacked alternately with the second epitaxial layers, each including the impurities in a second concentration higher than the first concentration.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Kyungbin Chun