Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sukchul Bang

Kwangjin Moon

Byung Lyul Park

Gilheyun Choi

Taeseong Kim

Dosun Lee

SungHee Kang

Jin Ho An

Yeun-Sang Park

Ho-jin Lee

Jeonggi Jin

Jae-Hwa Park

Deok-Young Jung

Kunsang Park

Seongmin Son

Byung-Lyul Park

Pil-Kyu Kang

Naein Lee

Kyu-ha Lee

Seokho Kim

Taeyeong Kim

Deokyoung Jung

Jisoon Park

Sukyoung Kim

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with first and second surfaces facing each other, an etch stop pattern in a trench formed in the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a through via penetrating the semiconductor substrate and the first insulating layer. The etch stop pattern surrounds a portion of a lateral surface of the through via.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface facing each other, an interlayer dielectric layer provided on the top surface of the semiconductor substrate and including an integrated circuit, an inter-metal dielectric layer provided on the interlayer dielectric layer and including at least one metal interconnection electrically connected to the integrated circuit, an upper dielectric layer disposed on the inter-metal dielectric layer, a through-electrode penetrating the inter-metal dielectric layer, the interlayer dielectric layer, and the semiconductor substrate, a via-dielectric layer surrounding the through-electrode and electrically insulating the through-electrode from the semiconductor substrate. The via-dielectric layer includes one or more air-gaps between the upper dielectric layer and the interlayer dielectric layer.

Semiconductor devices having through-electrodes and methods for fabricating the same

Provided are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The device may include a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, a through-silicon-via (TSV) electrode provided in a via hole that may be formed to penetrate the substrate, and an integrated circuit provided adjacent to the through electrode on the first surface. The through electrode includes a metal layer filling a portion of the via hole and an alloy layer filling a remaining portion of the via hole. The alloy layer contains at least two metallic elements, one of which may be the same as that contained in the metal layer, and the other of which may be different from that contained in the metal layer.

Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same

Semiconductor devices having through-electrodes are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a substrate, a through-electrode penetrating vertically through the substrate, a circuit layer on the substrate and metal lines in the circuit layer. The metal lines may include two first metals on opposing edges of a top surface of the through-electrode and second metals above the top surface of the through-electrode. At least some of the second metals may not vertically overlap the two first metals.

Semiconductor devices having through-electrodes

Semiconductor devices having through electrodes capped with self-aligned protection layers. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate including an integrated circuit formed therein, an interlayer dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate to cover the integrated circuit, an intermetal dielectric layer having at least one metal line that is provided on the interlayer dielectric layer and is electrically connected to integrated circuit, and a through electrode that vertically penetrates the interlayer dielectric layer and the semiconductor substrate. The through electrode includes a top portion that is capped with a first protection layer capable of preventing a constituent of the through electrode from being diffused away from the through electrode.

Semiconductor devices having through electrodes capped with self-aligned protection layers

A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, a through via electrode, and a buffer. The through via electrode may extend through a thickness of the semiconductor substrate with the through via electrode surrounding an inner portion of the semiconductor substrate so that the inner portion of the semiconductor substrate may thus be isolated from the outer portion of the semiconductor substrate. The buffer may be in the inner portion of the semiconductor substrate with the through via electrode surrounding and spaced apart from the buffer. Related methods are also discussed.

Semiconductor devices including through silicon via electrodes and methods of fabricating the same

Provided are semiconductor devices with a through electrode and methods of fabricating the same. The methods may include forming a via hole at least partially penetrating a substrate, the via hole having an entrance provided on a top surface of the substrate, forming a via-insulating layer to cover conformally an inner surface of the via hole, forming a buffer layer on the via-insulating layer to cover conformally the via hole provided with the via-insulating layer, the buffer layer being formed of a material whose shrinkability is superior to the via-insulating layer, forming a through electrode to fill the via hole provided with the buffer layer, and recessing a bottom surface of the substrate to expose the through electrode.

Semiconductor devices having through electrodes

Semiconductor devices are disclosed. The semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and a pad trench formed at a portion of the second surface, a through-electrode penetrating the semiconductor substrate and protruding from a bottom surface of the pad trench. A buried pad may be disposed in the pad trench and may surround the through-electrode.

Semiconductor devices

Provided are semiconductor devices having through electrodes and methods of fabricating the same. The method includes providing a substrate including top and bottom surfaces facing each other, forming a hole and a gap extending from the top surface of the substrate toward the bottom surface of the substrate, the gap surrounding the hole and being shallower than the hole, filling the hole with an insulating material, forming a metal interconnection line on the top surface of the substrate on the insulating material, recessing the bottom surface of the substrate to expose the insulating material, removing the insulating material to expose the metal interconnection line via the hole, filling the hole with a conductive material to form a through electrode connected to the metal interconnection line, recessing the bottom surface of the substrate again to expose the gap, and forming a lower insulating layer on the bottom surface of the substrate.

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