Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Min-Chul Chae

Jun Hyuk Seo

Jae-Seung Hwang

Jong-Heui Song

Young-Mi Lee

Jong-Hyuk Kim

Yun-seung Kang

Yung-Jun Kim

Woo-Jin Cho

Yong-Woo Lee

Yong-Sun Ko

Sung-Un Kwon

Jun Ho Seo

Dae-Joung Kim

Jae-Kyu Ha

A dual damascene structure and a method of forming a dual damascene structure are disclosed. The dual damascene structure includes an insulation member, a single crystal member and a filling member. The insulation member has an opening having a dual damascene shape. The filling member is formed on a side face of the opening. The single crystal member contacts the filling member. The single crystal member fills up the opening. In order to form a dual damascene structure, an insulating member having an opening partially filled with a preliminary single crystal member is formed. The filling member is formed on a side face of the opening. The preliminary single crystal member epitaxially grows to fill up the opening. Because the filling member is positioned between the single crystal member and the insulation member, void formation may be reduced between the single crystal member and the insulation member.

Methods of forming dual damascene structures

A method of forming an ion implantation mask includes forming a field area on a semiconductor substrate, forming an amorphous carbon layer on the semiconductor substrate, forming a hard mask layer on the amorphous carbon layer, forming an etching mask pattern on the hard mask layer, and etching the hard mask layer and the amorphous carbon layer to expose the field area through the etching mask pattern, wherein etching the hard mask layer and the amorphous carbon layer forms a hard mask layer pattern and an amorphous carbon layer pattern.

Ion implantation mask forming method

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (Fin-FET) includes forming sacrificial bars on a semiconductor substrate, patterning the sacrificial bars to form sacrificial islands on the semiconductor substrate, forming a device isolation layer to fill a space between the sacrificial islands, selectively removing the sacrificial islands to expose the semiconductor substrate below the sacrificial islands, and anisotropically etching the exposed semiconductor substrate using the device isolation layer as an etch mask to form a recessed channel region. The recessed channel region allows the channel width and channel length of a transistor to be increased, thereby reducing the occurrence of short channel effects and narrow channel effects in highly integrated semiconductor devices.

Methods of fabricating semiconductor device including fin-fet

In a thin layer structure and a method of forming the same, a first preliminary insulation pattern is formed on a substrate and includes a first opening exposing the substrate. One or more preliminary seed patterns including single crystalline silicon are formed in the first opening. A second insulation layer is formed on the first preliminary insulation pattern and the one or more preliminary seed patterns. A second insulation pattern, a first insulation pattern and one or more seed patterns are formed by etching the first and second insulation layers and the one or more preliminary seed patterns. The second insulation pattern includes a second opening having a flat bottom portion. A single crystalline silicon pattern is formed in the second opening, wherein a central thickness of the single crystalline silicon pattern is substantially identical to a peripheral thickness thereof, thereby reducing or preventing a thinning defect in a semiconductor device.

Thin layer structure and method of forming the same

Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a contact hole with a high aspect-ratio. The method includes: sequentially forming a lower pattern and an upper layer on a semiconductor substrate; sequentially forming a lower mask layer and an upper mask layer on the upper layer; sequentially patterning the lower and upper mask layers to form a hole exposing a top surface of the upper layer on the lower pattern; using the upper mask layer as an etching mask to anisotropically etch the exposed top surface to form an upper contact hole exposing a top surface of the lower pattern; and using the lower mask layer as an etching mask to anisotropically etch the exposed lower pattern to form a lower contact hole in the lower pattern, the lower contact hole extending from the upper contact hole.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device having contact hole with high aspect-ratio

Dual damascene structure and methods of forming the same

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Min-Chul Chae