Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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Sung Uk Jang

Su Jin Jung

Young Dae Cho

Seung Hun Lee

Ki Hwan Kim

Hyun Jung Lee

Seok Hoon Kim

Min-Hee Choi

Bong Soo Kim

Dong Suk Shin

Cho Eun Lee

Dong Myoung Kim

Edward Nam Kyu Cho

In Tae Park

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor comprises an active pattern including a lower pattern and a plurality of sheet patterns that are spaced apart from the lower pattern in a first direction, a source/drain pattern on the lower pattern and in contact with the plurality of sheet patterns, and a gate structure on opposing sides of the source/drain pattern in a second direction different from the first direction, the gate structure including a gate electrode on the plurality of sheet patterns, wherein the source/drain pattern includes an epitaxial region that comprises a semiconductor material and a cavity region that is inside the epitaxial region and that is surrounded by the semiconductor material.

Semiconductor devices

A semiconductor device and a method for making a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an active region on a substrate, channel layers on the active region and spaced apart vertically, a gate structure intersecting the active region and the channel layers, the gate structure surrounding the channel layers, and a source/drain region on the active region at a side of the gate structure, the source/drain region contacting the channel layers and including first epitaxial layers having a first composition and including first layers on side surfaces of the channel layers and a second layer on the active region at a lower end of the source/drain region, and a second epitaxial layer having a second composition different from the first composition, the second epitaxial layer being between the first epitaxial layers in the first direction and being between the first epitaxial layers vertically.

Multi-bridge channel transistors with stacked source/drain structure and method of forming the same

An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having source and drain recesses therein that are lined with respective silicon-germanium liners and filled with doped semiconductor source and drain regions. A stacked plurality of semiconductor channel layers are provided, which are separated vertically from each other within the substrate by corresponding buried insulated gate electrode regions that extend laterally between the silicon-germanium liners. An insulated gate electrode is provided on an uppermost one of the plurality of semiconductor channel layers. The silicon-germanium liners may be doped with carbon.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device including an active region extending in a first direction on a substrate; a gate structure intersecting the active region and extending in a second direction on the substrate; and a source/drain region on the active region and at least one side of the gate structure, wherein the source/drain region includes a plurality of first epitaxial layers spaced apart from each other in the first direction, the plurality of first epitaxial layers including first impurities of a first conductivity type; and a second epitaxial layer filling a space between the plurality of first epitaxial layers, the second epitaxial layer including second impurities of the first conductivity type.

A semiconductor device includes a first fin type pattern on a substrate, a second fin type pattern, parallel to the first fin type pattern, on the substrate, and an epitaxial pattern on the first and second fin type patterns. The epitaxial pattern may include a shared semiconductor pattern on the first fin type pattern and the second fin type pattern. The shared semiconductor pattern may include a first sidewall adjacent to the first fin type pattern and a second sidewall adjacent to the second fin type pattern. The first sidewall may include a first lower facet, a first upper facet on the first lower facet and a first connecting curved surface connecting the first lower and upper facets. The second sidewall may include a second lower facet, a second upper facet on the second lower facet and a second connecting curved surface connecting the second lower and upper facets.

A semiconductor device includes an active region extending in a first direction on a substrate, channel layers on the active region and spaced apart vertically, a gate structure intersecting the active region and the channel layers, the gate structure extending in a second direction and surrounding the channel layers, and a source/drain region on the active region at a side of the gate structure, the source/drain region contacting the channel layers, the source/drain region including first epitaxial layers having a first composition and including first layers on side surfaces of the channel layers and a second layer on the active region at a lower end of the source/drain region, and a second epitaxial layer having a second composition different from the first composition, the second epitaxial layer being between the first epitaxial layers in the first direction and being between the first epitaxial layers vertically in a third direction.

A semiconductor device including an active region defined in a substrate; at least one channel layer on the active region; a gate electrode intersecting the active region and on the active region and surrounding the at least one channel layer; and a pair of source/drain regions adjacent to both sides of the gate electrode, on the active region, and in contact with the at least one channel layer, wherein the pair of source/drain regions includes a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) layer, and a maximum width of each of the pair of source/drain regions in a first direction is 1.3 times or less a width of the active region in the first direction.

Semiconductor device including source/drain region

Provided is a method including a location-sharing acquaintance registration process, a location-sharing acquaintance location information receiving process in which the acquaintance location sharing application receives location information of location-sharing acquaintances present within a preset proximity radius from a current location of the user from the location information providing server, a location-sharing acquaintance distance display process in which the acquaintance location sharing application displays only the number and separation distances of location-sharing acquaintances present within the proximity radius of the user without identification information of the location-sharing acquaintances as long as the location-sharing acquaintances are present within the proximity radius, and a paid location-sharing acquaintance identification information providing process in which the acquaintance location sharing application provides the identification information of the location-sharing acquaintances present within the proximity radius of the user in return for a payment.

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