Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sung-Kweon Baek

Bon-Young Koo

Chul-Sung Kim

Young-Jin Noh

Ki-hyun Hwang

Sang-Moo Choi

Si-Young Choi

Chung-woo Kim

Sang-hun Jeon

Gab-Jin Nam

Hyun-Sang Hwang

Ji-Young Min

Jin-Soak Kim

Chang-Hyun Lee

Eun-ae Chung

Jin-Hwa Heo

Kwang-Min Park

Sung-hae Lee

Eun-ae Chang

A semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed in an active region of a semiconductor substrate, and a gate structure crossing the active region and disposed between the first and second source/drain regions, the gate structure including a gate electrode having a first part and a second part on the first part, the gate electrode being at a lower level than an upper surface of the active region, an insulating capping pattern on the gate electrode, a gate dielectric between the gate electrode and the active region, and an empty space between the active region and the second part of the gate electrode.

Semiconductor device and semiconductor module

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate insulation layer pattern on a substrate, forming a sacrificial layer including impurities on the gate insulation layer pattern, annealing the sacrificial layer so that the impurities in the sacrificial layer diffuse into the gate insulation layer pattern, removing the sacrificial layer, and forming a gate electrode on the gate insulation layer pattern.

Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices including transistors

Methods of forming an insulating film include forming an insulating film on a substrate. A first impurity is injected into the insulating film using a thermal process under a first set of processing conditions to form a first impurity concentration peak in a lower portion of the insulating film. A second impurity is injected into the insulating film using the thermal process under a second set of processing conditions, different from the first set of processing conditions, to form a second impurity concentration peak in an upper portion of the insulating film. Injecting the first impurity and injecting the second impurity may be carried out without using plasma and the first impurity concentration peak may be higher than the second impurity concentration peak.

Methods of forming impurity containing insulating films and flash memory devices including the same

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a surface, buried isolation regions protruding from the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a first insulating layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate between the isolation regions and including a fluorine, nitrogen, and/or heavy hydrogen impurity. A floating electrode is on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer is on the floating electrode and the isolation regions, and a control gate electrode is on the second insulating layer. Related methods of forming semiconductor devices are also disclosed.

Semiconductor devices having tunnel and gate insulating layers

Fabrication of a nonvolatile memory device includes sequentially forming a tunnel oxide layer, a first conductive layer, and a nitride layer on a semiconductor substrate. A stacked pattern is formed from the tunnel oxide layer, the first conductive layer, and the nitride layer and a trench is formed in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the stacked pattern. An oxidation process is performed to form a sidewall oxide layer on a sidewall of the trench and the first conductive layer. Chlorine is introduced into at least a portion of the stacked pattern subjected to the oxidation process. Introducing Cl into the stacked pattern may at least partially cure defects that are caused therein during fabrication of the structure.

Methods of fabricating non-volatile memory devices including a chlorine cured tunnel oxide layer

A semiconductor memory device includes a first dopant area and a second dopant area in a semiconductor substrate, the first dopant area and the second dopant area doped with one selected from the group consisting of Sb, Ga, and Bi. The semiconductor memory device includes an insulating layer disposed in contact with the first dopant area and the second dopant area, and a gate electrode layer disposed in contact with the insulating layer.

Semiconductor device doped with Sb, Ga, or Bi and method of manufacturing the same

Methods of forming semiconductor devices having tunnel and gate insulating layers

Semiconductor device doped with Sb, Ga or Bi and method of manufacturing the same

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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