Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Seung Woo Jin

Kyoung Bong Rouh

Min Yong Lee

Yong Soo Jung

Bong Soo Kim

Dong Suk Shin

Ho Jin Cho

Tae Hyeok Lee

Min Young Lee

Yong Soo Joung

An Bae Lee

Yun Hyuck Ji

Min Yong Jung

Young Hwan Joo

Sang Woon Park

A non-uniform ion implantation apparatus comprises a wide ion beam generator configured to generate a plurality of wide ion beams to irradiate at least two regions on the entire area of a wafer, and a wafer rotating device configured to rotate the wafer in a predetermined direction while the wide ion beams generated by the wide ion beam generator are irradiated to the wafer. Among the wide ion beams, at least one wide ion beam has a different dose from that of at least one different wide ion beam. Since the wide ion beams are irradiated at different doses to the wafer, a smooth circular border is formed between the regions to which the impurity ions are implanted to different concentrations. Since the position of the wafer is suitably changed for the wide ion beams, it is possible to control disposition of the regions implanted with the impurity ions of different concentrations.

Non-uniform ion implantation apparatus and method thereof

A thermal treatment apparatus and method for processing a wafer are provided. The thermal treatment apparatus includes a process chamber for thermally treating the wafer, a heating unit for heating the wafer in the process chamber, and a gas supply unit for supplying a gas and controlling a gas pressure differently by sections of the wafer. The heating unit is provided in at least one of the upper side and the lower side of the process chamber. The heating unit includes a plurality of heater blocks capable of controlling a temperature for sections of the wafer.

Apparatus and method for thermally treating semiconductor device capable of preventing wafer from warping

A method for fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes: forming a lower conductive layer over a semiconductor substrate; forming an insulation layer over the lower conductive layer; etching the insulation layer to form a contact hole that exposes a portion of the lower conductive layer; forming a contact plug in the contact hole; doping the contact plug by performing a plasma doping process while varying a temperature of regions the semiconductor substrate; and forming an upper conductive layer connected with the lower conductive layer through the contact plug.

Method for fabricating semiconductor memory device

A transistor having a recess gate structure and a method for fabricating the same. The transistor includes a gate insulating layer formed on the inner walls of first trenches formed in a semiconductor substrate; a gate conductive layer formed on the gate insulating layer for partially filling the first trenches; gate electrodes formed on the gate conductive layer for completely filling the first trenches, and surrounded by the gate conductive layer; channel regions formed in the semiconductor substrate along the first trenches; and source/drain regions formed in a shallow portion of the semiconductor substrate.

Method for fabricating a transistor having a recess gate structure

A semiconductor device, having a recessed gate and asymmetric dopant regions, comprises a semiconductor substrate having a trench with a first sidewall and a second sidewall, the heights of which are different from each other, a gate insulating layer pattern disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a gate stack disposed on the semiconductor such that the gate stack protrudes from the surface of the semiconductor substrate while the gate stack fills the trench, and first and second dopant regions disposed at the upper part of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the first and second sidewalls of the trench, respectively, such that the first and second dopant regions have different steps.

Semiconductor device having a recessed gate and asymmetric dopant regions and method of manufacturing the same

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory device using asymmetric junction ion implantation, including performing ion implantation for adjusting a threshold voltage to a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate stack on the semiconductor substrate to define a storage node junction region and a bit line junction region, implanting a first conductive impurity ion and a second conductive impurity ion using a mask layer pattern covering the storage node junction region while exposing the bit line junction region, forming a gate spacer layer at both sides of the gate stack, and implanting the first conductive impurity ion using the gate stack and the gate spacer layer as an ion implantation mask layer to form a storage node junction region and a bit line junction region having different impurity concentrations, and different junction depths from each other.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor memory device using asymmetric junction ion implantation

A semiconductor device having recess gates and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having inverse triangular recesses formed therein; a gate insulating film having a designated thickness formed on the semiconductor substrate; gate electrodes formed on the gate insulating film so that the gate electrodes fill the inverse triangular recesses and protrude from the surface of the semiconductor substrate; and first and second junction regions formed in the semiconductor substrate and opposed to each other so that the corresponding one of the gate electrodes is interposed therebetween.

Recess gate type transistor

Method of fabricating a recess gate type transistor

An ion implantation apparatus includes an ion beam source for generating an ion beam; an implantation energy controller disposed on a path of the ion beam for controlling the ion implantation energy of the ion beam so that an ion beam having a first implantation energy is created for a first period of time and an ion beam having a second implantation energy is created for a second period of time; a beam line for accelerating the ion beam; and an end station for mounting a substrate, into which the ion beam accelerated by the beam line is implanted onto the substrate.

Ion implantation apparatus and method for obtaining non-uniform ion implantation energy

An ion implantation apparatus comprises an ion beam source for generating an initial ion beam, a bundled ion beam generator adapted to change the initial ion beam into a bundled ion beam based on a predetermined frequency to pass the bundled ion beam for a first time while passing the initial ion beam for a second time, a beam line for accelerating the ion beam having passed through the ion beam generator, and an end station for arranging a wafer therein to allow the ion beam accelerated by the beam line to be implanted in the wafer, the end station operating to move the wafer in a direction perpendicular to an ion beam implantation direction, so as to implant the bundled ion beam in a first region of the wafer and the initial ion beam in a second region of the wafer.

Partial ion implantation apparatus and method using bundled beam

Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for partial ion implantation. The apparatus includes a wafer support, an ion beam irradiator capable of generating and irradiating an ion beam entering the wafer, and an ion beam exposure adjustor to adjust exposure of the wafer with respect to the ion beam according to regions of the wafer by setting an exposure opening via combination of ion beam shields for blocking the ion beam with respect to the wafer. The exposure opening enables the wafer to be partially exposed to the ion beam irradiated therethrough. With this apparatus, effective partial ion implantation can be performed to compensate variation of a threshold voltage Vt in a channel of a transistor, thereby providing more uniform characteristics of the transistor.

Apparatus and method for partial ion implantation

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a cell transistor of a semiconductor memory device. The method comprises the steps of: forming device isolation films and a well on a semiconductor substrate; forming a threshold voltage adjust region by ion-implanting a first conductive impurity dopant into the well of the semiconductor substrate; performing a first thermal annealing on the semiconductor substrate where the threshold voltage adjust region is formed; forming a gate insulating film and gate electrodes on top of the semiconductor substrate between the device isolation films; forming a halo ion implantation region by ion-implanting a first conductive impurity dopant into the semiconductor substrate corresponding to a drain region exposed by the gate electrodes; performing a second thermal annealing on the semiconductor substrate where the halo ion implantation region is formed; and forming source/drain regions by ion-implanting a second conductive impurity dopant into the semiconductor substrate exposed by the gate electrodes. This method can reduce the turn-off leakage current of the cell transistor since the dopant dose of the threshold voltage adjust region can be reduced while maintaining the threshold voltage by increasing the dopant diffusion of the threshold voltage adjust region.

Method for manufacturing a cell transistor of a semiconductor memory device

Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device via gate-through ion implantation, comprising forming a gate stack on a semiconductor substrate and performing ion implantation for control of the threshold voltage and junction ion implantation for formation of source/drain regions, on the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate having the gate stack formed thereon. In accordance with the present invention, since ion implantation is carried out after formation of the gate stack involving a thermal process, there are no changes in concentrations of implanted dopants due to heat treatment upon formation of the gate stack.

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Seung Woo Jin