Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sanghoon Ahn

Jongmin Baek

Wookyung You

Sangho Rha

Naein Lee

Woojin Lee

Kyu-Hee Han

Nae-in Lee

Byunghee Kim

Junghoo Shin

Hoon Seok Seo

Vietha Nguyen

Jiwon Kang

Kihyun Hwang

Jeonghee Park

Byung-Kwon Cho

Kyuhee Han

Oik Kwon

Hak-Sun Lee

Thomas Oszinda

YoungWoo Cho

Songyi Han

Jiwon Yun

Taejin Yim

Young-ju Park

Inoue Naoya

Junhyuk Lim

Hyeonjin Shin

Seung Jae Lee

Daeseok Byeon

Byung-Lyul Park

Jiyoung Kim

Kyung-Eun Byun

Yunseong Lee

Keunwook Shin

Jung-Hwan Lee

Kyoung-Hee Kim

Jeeyong Kim

Jun Kwan Kim

Heesook Park

Deokyoung Jung

Jangho Lee

Jaesung Hur

Daehan Kim

JaeWha Park

Hyeoksang Oh

Keeyoung Jun

Sangdon Nam

Yoonhee Kang

Taeksoo Jeon

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active pattern, a first interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, the first interlayer dielectric layer including a recess on an upper portion thereof, and a lower connection line in the first interlayer dielectric layer, the lower connection line being electrically connected to the active pattern, and the lower connection line including a conductive pattern, the recess of the first interlayer dielectric layer selectively exposing a top surface of the conductive pattern, and a barrier pattern between the conductive pattern and the first interlayer dielectric layer, the first interlayer dielectric layer covering a top surface of the barrier pattern.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a substrate; a transistor on the substrate; an interlayer insulating film on the transistor; an insulating liner on the interlayer insulating film; a first insulating film on the insulating liner; and a first wiring layer on the interlayer insulating film and surrounded by the insulating liner. A height of a top surface of the first insulating film in a vertical direction from a main surface of the interlayer insulating film is different than a height of a top surface of the first wiring layer in the vertical direction. A step exists between the top surfaces of the first wiring layer and the first insulating film. A height of the first insulating film is greater than a height of the first wiring layer. A width of the first wiring layer gradually narrows as the first wiring layer extends upwards along the vertical direction.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device suppressing leakage current of multilayer wiring structures

Provided is a method of forming an interconnect structure. The method includes preparing a substrate including a first metal layer and a first insulating layer, selectively forming a carbon layer having an spbonding structure on the first metal layer, selectively forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, forming a third insulating layer to cover the second insulating layer, and forming a second metal layer electrically connected to the first metal layer.

Method of forming interconnect structure

An integrated circuit device according to the inventive concepts includes lower wiring structures formed on a substrate, an air gap arranged between the lower wiring structures, a capping layer covering an upper surface of the air gap, an etch stop layer conformally covering an upper surfaces of the lower wiring structures and the capping layer and having a protrusion and recess structure, an insulating layer covering the etch stop layer, and an upper wiring structure penetrating the insulating layer and connected to the upper surface of the lower wiring structure not covered with the etch stop layer, wherein the upper wiring structure covers a portion of an upper surface of the capping layer, and a level of the upper surface of the capping layer is higher than a level of the upper surface of the lower wiring structures.

Integrated circuit device including air gaps and method of manufacturing the same

An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of pixel regions arranged in a first direction and a second direction that are parallel to an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. A grid structure extends in the first direction and the second direction on the semiconductor substrate to define openings corresponding to a plurality of sub-pixel regions of the plurality of the pixel regions, respectively. Color filters are disposed in the openings of the grid structure, respectively. A protective layer covers sidewalls of the grid structure and bottom surfaces of the color filters. The protective layer includes silicon oxide including carbon (C) or nitrogen (N).

Image sensor including a protective layer

A semiconductor device includes a second insulating layer disposed on a substrate and that includes a first trench that extends in a first direction, a first via disposed in the first hole, a first interconnection layer disposed in the first trench on the first via and that has an upwardly upper region, and a third insulating layer disposed on the second insulating layer and that includes a second hole and a second trench connected to the second hole. The first trench has inclined side surfaces such that a width of the first trench increases in a direction toward the substrate, the second hole has inclined side surfaces such that a width of the second hole decreases in the direction toward the substrate, and a lower portion of the second hole is wider than an upper surface of the first interconnection layer.

Semiconductor devices

A variable resistance memory device is provided including a plurality of lower electrodes disposed on a substrate. A plurality of variable resistors are disposed on the plurality of lower electrodes. A plurality of upper electrodes are disposed on the plurality of variable resistors. An interlayer insulating layer fills a space in the plurality of variable resistors. An anti-oxidation layer is disposed between the plurality of variable resistors and the interlayer insulating layer. The anti-oxidation layer covers side surfaces of the plurality of variable resistors, and the anti-oxidation layer comprises silicon and/or carbon.

Variable resistance memory device having an anti-oxidation layer and a method of manufacturing the same

Semiconductor device

An integrated circuit device includes a first insulation layer on a substrate, a lower wiring structure in the first insulation layer and including a metal layer and a conductive barrier layer, such that the metal layer is on the conductive barrier layer, an etch stop layer overlapping an upper surface of the first insulation layer and an upper surface of the conductive barrier layer and having a first thickness, a capping layer overlapping a portion of the upper surface of the metal layer and having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness, a second insulation layer overlapping the etch stop layer and the capping layer, and an upper wiring structure connected to another portion of the upper surface of the metal layer not overlapped by the capping layer in the second insulation layer.

Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing the same

Methods of forming a semiconductor device are provided. A method of forming a semiconductor device may include forming a capping layer on a metal pattern and on an adjacent portion of an insulating layer, the capping layer comprising a first etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the metal pattern and a second etch selectivity, with respect to the insulating layer, on the portion of the insulating layer. Moreover, the method may include forming a recess region adjacent the metal pattern by removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. At least a portion of the capping layer may remain on an uppermost surface of the metal pattern after removing the capping layer from the portion of the insulating layer. Related semiconductor devices are also provided.

Semiconductor devices including a capping layer

Provided is a semiconductor device comprising a device region on a substrate, an interlayer dielectric layer on the device region, a first interface layer on a side of the interlayer dielectric layer, a low-k dielectric layer spaced apart from the interlayer dielectric layer across the first interface layer and having a dielectric constant less than that of the interlayer dielectric layer, and a conductive line in the low-k dielectric layer. The first interface layer comprises a first sub-interface layer in contact with the low-k dielectric layer, and a second sub-interface layer in contact with the interlayer dielectric layer. The second sub-interface layer has hydrogen permeability less than that of the first sub-interface layer.

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Goyang-si, South Korea

Sanghoon Ahn