Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sung-eui Kim

Dae-Ik Kim

Dong-ho Ahn

Hyoung-sub Kim

Hoon Jeong

Ji-Young Kim

Seung-Jun Lee

In-seak Hwang

Moon-han Park

Jong-Bom Seo

Tai-su Park

Young-Seung Cho

Chan-Won Kim

Jun-soo Lee

Keum-joo Lee

Young-sun Koh

Eun-jung Yun

Kong-Soo Lee

Jae-Jong Han

Soo-Jin Hong

Yu-gyun Shin

Young-dae Kim

Sung-Kwan Choi

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region, a plurality of conductive line structures separate from the substrate, a plurality of contact plugs between the plurality of conductive line structures, a plurality of landing pads connected to a corresponding contact plug of the plurality of contact plugs, a landing pad insulation pattern between the plurality of landing pads, and a first insulation spacer between the landing pad insulation pattern and first conductive line structures from among the plurality of conductive line structures.

Semiconductor device including landing pad for connecting substrate and capacitor

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of active areas, a bit line crossing the plurality of active areas, a direct contact connecting a first active area of the plurality of active areas with the bit line, an insulating spacer covering a side wall of the bit line and extending at a level lower than a level of an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, a contact pad connected with a side wall of a second active area of the plurality of active areas, which neighbors the first active area, a first insulating pattern defining a contact hole exposing the insulating spacer and the contact pad, and a buried contact connected with the contact pad and filling the contact hole.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a first capacitor structure, a second capacitor structure, and an insulation pattern. The first capacitor structure includes a first lower electrode, a first dielectric layer and a first upper electrode sequentially stacked on a substrate. The second capacitor structure includes a second lower electrode, a second dielectric layer and a second upper electrode sequentially stacked on the substrate, and is adjacent to the first capacitor structure. The insulation pattern partially fills a space between the first and second capacitor structures, and an air gap is formed between the first and second capacitor structures on the insulation pattern.

Semiconductor devices including capacitors and methods of manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an isolation layer on a substrate, where an active pattern is defined, forming an insulating interlayer on the active pattern of the substrate and the isolation layer, removing portions of the insulating interlayer, the active pattern and the isolation layer to form a first recess, forming a first contact in the first recess on a first region of the active pattern exposed by the first recess, removing portions of the active pattern and the isolation layer in the first recess by performing an isotropic etching process, to form an enlarged first recess, and

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same

Semiconductor devices including capacitors

A trench structure of a semiconductor device includes first and second regions of a substrate having first and second trenches, respectively, the first trench having an aspect ratio larger than that of the second trench, a first insulation material on a bottom and sidewalls of the first trench forming a first sub-trench in the first trench, a second insulation material completely filling the first sub-trench, a third insulation material formed on a bottom and sidewalls of the second trench forming a second sub-trench in the second trench, a fourth insulation material formed on a bottom and sidewalls of the second sub-trench, and a fifth insulation material completely filling a third sub-trench formed in the second sub-trench by the fourth insulation material.

Semiconductor trench isolation structure

A method for forming a thin film on a gate electrode reduces oxidation of the gate electrode during a re-oxidation process to fix the damage to the gate oxide film caused during the formation of the gate electrode pattern. The gate electrode pattern formed in this manner will have reduced defects after re-oxidation. After a gate oxide film is formed on a substrate, a gate electrode pattern is formed on the gate oxide film through an etching process. A thin film that includes nitride is then continuously formed on the gate oxide film and on the gate electrode by utilizing a deposition rate difference between the thin film on the gate oxide film and on the thin film forming the gate electrode. Because of the thin film formed on the gate electrode, oxidation of the gate electrode is reduced during the re-oxidation of the gate oxide film.

Method for forming a thin film, methods for forming a gate electrode and transistor using the same, and a gate electrode manufactured using the same

Methods of forming gate oxide films in integrated circuit devices using wet or dry oxidization processes with a reduced amount of chloride are disclosed. A gate oxide film is formed on a substrate on an active region adjacent to a trench isolation region in a first gas atmosphere with a first amount of chloride. The gate oxide film is annealed in a second gas atmosphere including a second amount of chloride that is greater than the first amount.

Methods of forming gate oxide films in integrated circuit devices using wet or dry oxidization processes with reduced chloride

Methods of forming trench isolation regions include the steps of forming a semiconductor substrate having a trench therein and a masking layer thereon extending adjacent the trench. The masking layer may comprise silicon nitride. A recess-inhibiting layer is then formed on a sidewall of the trench and on a sidewall of the masking layer. Next, a stress-relief layer is formed on the recess-inhibiting layer. This stress-relief layer extends opposite the sidewall of the trench and opposite the sidewall of the masking layer and may comprise silicon nitride. The trench is then filled with a trench isolation layer. A sequence of planarization or etch-back steps are then performed to remove the masking layer and also align an upper surface of the trench isolation layer with a surface of the substrate. At least a portion of the masking layer is removed using a first etchant (e.g., phosphoric acid) that selectively etches the masking layer and the stress-relief layer at faster rates than the first recess-inhibiting layer. The recess-inhibiting layer is formed directly on a sidewall of the masking layer in order to limit the extent to which the outer surfaces of the stress-relief layer are exposed to the first etchant. In this manner, recession of the stress-relief layer and the voids that may subsequently develop as a result of the recession can be reduced. Multiple thin stress-relief layers may also be provided and these multiple layers provide a degree of stress-relief that is comparable with a single much thicker stress-relief layer.

Trench isolation regions having recess-inhibiting layers therein that protect against overetching

Methods of forming trench isolation regions having recess-inhibiting layers therein that protect against overetching

An isolation method in the fabrication process of a semiconductor device is provided. The method forms an oxide layer as a buffer layer for reducing stress through chemical vapor deposition (CVD). By the method, a first pad oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer are formed on a semiconductor substrate, and then an silicon nitride layer pattern is formed by patterning, and undercuts are formed in the first pad oxide layer pattern. Subsequently, a second pad oxide layer is formed on the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate through CVD, and then spacers are formed on the sidewalls of both the patterned first pad oxide layer and silicon nitride layer and a field oxide layer is formed through thermal oxidation. Alternatively, a silicon layer is deposited without the spacers to form the field oxide layer. The second pad oxide layer is a buffer layer for buffering stress during formation of the field oxide layer.

Isolation method of semiconductor device using second pad oxide layer

An integrated circuit device is isolated by forming a pad oxide layer on an integrated circuit substrate. A mask pattern is formed on the pad layer. The mask pattern includes sidewalls which selectively expose the pad oxide layer between the sidewalls. A silicon spacer is formed on the sidewalls. An oxidation barrier film is formed on the silicon spacer and on the exposed pad oxide layer. The integrated circuit substrate is then oxidized through the oxidation barrier film to form a device isolating layer. The oxidation barrier film on the exposed pad oxide layer is thinner than the oxidation barrier film on the sidewalls. Thus, oxidation of the silicon spacer is delayed relative to the substrate.

Integrated circuit device isolating methods including silicon spacers

An isolation region is formed on a substrate by forming spaced apart mesas on the substrate. A first insulation region is then formed on the substrate and second insulation regions are formed on the mesas, the first insulation region being disposed between and spaced apart from a respective one of the mesas, a respective one of the second insulation regions capping a respective one of the mesas. Preferably, the first and second insulation regions are formed by forming sidewall spacers adjacent sidewall portions of the mesas and oxidizing portions of the mesas opposite the substrate and a portion of the substrate disposed between the sidewall spacers. Spaced apart trenches are formed in the substrate on opposite sides of the first insulation region, a respective one of the trenches being disposed between the first insulation region and a respective one of the mesas, preferably by removing the sidewall spacers and underlying portions of the substrate. An insulating layer is formed on the substrate, filling the trenches and covering the first insulation region, and the substrate is planarized to remove portions of the insulating layer and the second insulation regions and thereby expose underlying portions of the mesas and leave a third insulation region spanning the trenches.

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Sung-eui Kim