Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sung-hae Lee

Jin-Gyun Kim

Ki-hyun Hwang

Jae-young Ahn

Jong-Cheol Lee

Ki-Vin Im

Ki-yeon Park

Ju-Wan Lim

Sang-yeol Kang

Sang-ryol Yang

Jin-tae Noh

Hong-Suk Kim

Jun-noh Lee

Chang-Hyun Lee

Ki-Hyun Hwang

Sung-Kweon Baek

Hee-Seok Kim

Kwang-Min Park

A method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device, wherein the method includes: alternately stacking interlayer sacrificial layers and interlayer insulating layers on a substrate; forming a plurality of first openings that pass through the interlayer sacrificial layers and the interlayer insulating layers to expose a first portion of the substrate; forming a semiconductor region on a side wall and a lower surface of each of the first openings; forming an embedded insulating layer in each of the first openings; forming a first conductive layer on the embedded insulating layer inside each of the first openings; forming a second opening exposing a second portion of the substrate and forming an impurity region on the second portion; forming a metal layer to cover the first conductive layer and the impurity region; and forming the metal layer into a metal silicide layer.

Method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device having a vertical structure

Provided is a semiconductor device including an insulating layer of a cubic system or a tetragonal system, having good electrical characteristics. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including an active region, a transistor that is formed in the active region of the semiconductor substrate, an interlevel insulating layer that is formed on the semiconductor substrate and a contact plug that is formed in the interlevel insulating layer and that is electrically connected to the transistor. The semiconductor device may include a lower electrode that is formed on the interlevel insulating layer and that is electrically connected to the contact plug, an upper electrode that is formed on the lower electrode and an insulating layer of a cubic system or a tetragonal system including a metal silicate layer. The insulating layer may be formed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode.

Semiconductor device including insulating layer of cubic system or tetragonal system

A semiconductor device includes a capacitor having a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer formed on the bottom electrode, a top electrode formed on the dielectric layer, and a contact plug having a metal that is connected with the top electrode, wherein the top electrode includes a doped poly-SiGelayer and a doped polysilicon layer epitaxially deposited on the doped poly-SiGelayer and the contact plug makes a contact with the doped polysilicon layer.

Semiconductor device including capacitor and method of fabricating same

A method of forming a conductive polysilicon thin film and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same are provided. The method of forming a conductive polysilicon thin film may comprise simultaneously supplying a Si precursor having halogen elements as a first reactant and a dopant to a substrate to form a first reactant adsorption layer that is doped with impurities on the substrate and then supplying a second reactant having H (hydrogen) to the first reactant adsorption layer to react the H of the second reactant with the halogen elements of the first reactant to form a doped Si atomic layer on the substrate.

Methods of forming conductive polysilicon thin films via atomic layer deposition and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices including such polysilicon thin films

In an embodiment, a method of manufacturing a charge-trapping dielectric and a silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS)-type non-volatile semiconductor device includes forming the charge-trapping dielectric, and a first oxide layer including silicon oxide. A silicon nitride layer including silicon-rich nitride is formed by a cyclic chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process using a silicon source material and a nitrogen source gas. A second oxide layer is formed on the silicon nitride layer. Hence, the charge-trapping dielectric having good erase characteristics is formed. In the SONOS-type non-volatile semiconductor device including the charge-trapping dielectric, a data erase process may be stably performed.

Method of manufacturing a charge-trapping dielectric and method of manufacturing a sonos-type non-volatile semiconductor device

Nonvolatile memory devices and related methods of fabricating nonvolatile memory devices are disclosed. A nonvolatile memory device includes a tunnel insulation film on a semiconductor substrate, a charge-trapping layer on the tunnel insulation film, a block insulation film on the charge-trapping layer, and a gate electrode on the blocking insulation film. The blocking insulation film includes a stacked film structure of a high-dielectric film and a barrier insulation film. The high-dielectric film has a first potential barrier relative to the charge-trapping layer. The barrier insulation film has a second potential barrier relative to the charge-trapping layer which is higher than the first potential barrier. The blocking insulation film has a thickness in a range of about 5 &#x212b; to about 15 &#x212b;.

Non-volatile semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same

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Sung-hae Lee