Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sunyoung Noh

Wandon Kim

Hyunbae Lee

Dong-Chan Lim

Rakhwan Kim

Euibok Lee

Donggon Yoo

Minjoo Lee

Eui Bok Lee

Ki Chul Park

Seungseok Ha

Jongchan Shin

Hanmin Jang

Seowoo Nam

A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an active region, a first interlayer insulating layer on the substrate, a first wiring in the first interlayer insulating layer that is electrically connected to the active region, an insulating pattern on the first interlayer insulating layer and that has a first opening exposing the first wiring, a double etch stop layer having lower and upper etch stop patterns on the insulating pattern and the first wiring, and including a second opening exposing a portion of the first wiring, a second interlayer insulating layer on the upper etch stop pattern and having a via hole connected to the second opening, the via hole having a rounded top corner region, a second wiring in the second interlayer insulating layer, and a via connecting the portion of the first wiring and the second wiring through the second opening and the via hole.

Semiconductor device with double etch stop layer and method of manufacturing the same

A semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a substrate, a first interconnection layer extending in a first direction on the lower structure, and including a first metal, a first via contacting a portion of an upper surface of the first interconnection layer and including a second metal, a second via contacting at least a portion of an upper surface of the first via and having a maximum width narrower than a maximum width of the first via, and a second interconnection layer connected to the second via and extending in a second direction. The first interconnection layer has inclined side surfaces in which a width of the first interconnection layer becomes narrower towards an upper region of the first interconnection layer, and the first via has inclined side surfaces in which a width of the first via becomes narrower towards an upper region of the first via.

Semiconductor devices

Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, a plurality of first vias in the first interlayer dielectric layer, a second interlayer dielectric layer on the first interlayer dielectric layer, and a first power line and a first lower line in the second interlayer dielectric layer that are electrically connected to respective ones of the first vias. A first width in a first direction of the first power line is greater than a second width in the first direction of the first lower line. The first power line includes a first metallic material. The first lower line includes a second metallic material. The first vias includes a third metallic material. The first, second, and third metallic materials are different from each other.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate, a first connection line that fills a first trench of the interlayer dielectric layer, the first trench having a first width, and a second connection line that fills a second trench of the interlayer dielectric layer, the second trench having a second width greater than the first width, and the second connection line including a first metal layer that covers an inner sidewall of the second trench, a barrier layer that covers a bottom surface of the second trench, and a second metal layer on the first metal layer and the barrier layer, the first connection line and the first metal layer include a first metal, and the second metal layer includes a second metal different from the first metal.

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