Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Tea-Kwang Yu

Jung-Hwan Kim

Yong-Seok Kim

Tae-Hyun Kim

Hun-Hyeoung Leam

Seok-Woo Nam

Hyun Namkoong

Yong-Tae Kim

Bo-young Seo

Yong-kyu Lee

Kwang-Tae Kim

Jeong-Uk Han

Weon-Ho Park

Kyoung-Hwan Kim

Chang-Hyun Lee

Hee-Seog Jeon

Yong-Kyu Lee

Jong-Sun Sel

Ju-Hyung Kim

Byeong-In Choe

Ji-hoon Park

Ji-Hoon Park

Chul-Ho Chung

Yong-Suk Choi

Bo-Young Seo

Bae-Seong Kwon

Chang-Min Jeon

Byung-Sup Shim

Eun-Mi Hong

Byung-Suo Shim

Kong-Sam Jang

A semiconductor device includes an isolation layer defining an active region formed in a semiconductor substrate. A first recessing process is performed on the isolation layer to expose edge portions of the active region. A first rounding process is performed to round the edge portions of the active region. A second recessing process is performed on the isolation layer. A second rounding process is performed to round the edge portions of the active region.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a split gate structure is formed on a cell region of a substrate including the cell region and a logic region. The logic region has a high voltage region, an ultra high voltage region and a low voltage region, and the split gate structure includes a first gate insulation layer pattern, a floating gate, a tunnel insulation layer pattern and a control gate. A spacer layer is formed on the split gate structure and the substrate. The spacer layer is etched to form a spacer on a sidewall of the split gate structure and a second gate insulation layer pattern on the ultra high voltage region of the substrate. A gate electrode is formed on each of the high voltage region of the substrate, the second gate insulation layer pattern, and the low voltage region of the substrate.

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same

A source line floating circuit includes a plurality of floating units. The floating units directly receive decoded row address signals or voltages of word lines as floating control signals, respectively. The decoded row address signals are activated selectively in response to a row address signal. The floating units control electrical connections between source lines and a source voltage in response to the floating control signals in a read operation. Related devices and methods are also described.

Source line floating circuits, memory devices including the same and methods of reading data in a memory device

A split-gate type nonvolatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a deep well having a second conductivity type in the semiconductor substrate, a pocket well having the first conductivity type in the deep well, a source line region having the second conductivity type in the pocket well, an erase gate on the source line region, and a first floating gate and a first control gate stacked sequentially on the pocket well on a side of the erase gate. The pocket well is electrically isolated from the substrate by the deep well, so that a negative voltage applied to the pocket well may not adversely affect operation of other devices formed on the substrate.

Split-gate type nonvolatile memory device, semiconductor device having split-type nonvolatile memory device embedded therein, and methods of forming the same

Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a lower active region on a semiconductor substrate. A plurality of upper active regions protruding from a top surface of the lower active region and having a narrower width than the lower active region are provided. A lower isolation region surrounding a sidewall of the lower active region is provided. An upper isolation region formed on the lower isolation region, surrounding sidewalls of the upper active regions, and having a narrower width than the lower isolation region is provided. A first impurity region formed in the lower active region and extending into the upper active regions is provided. Second impurity regions formed in the upper active regions and constituting a diode together with the first impurity region are provided. A method of fabricating the same is provided as well.

Semiconductor device having a diode

A non-volatile memory device includes a first sector including a first sector selection transistor and a first plurality of pages connected to the first sector selection transistor, and a second sector including a second sector selection transistor and a second plurality of pages connected to the second sector selection transistor. Each of the first and second plurality of pages includes a memory transistor and a selection transistor, and a number of pages in the first plurality of pages is greater than a number of pages in the second plurality of pages.

Non-volatile memory device

A non-volatile memory device includes an active region in which a channel of a transistor is formed in a substrate, element isolation films defining the active region and formed on the substrate at both sides of the channel at a height lower than an upper surface of the active region, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a control gate electrode formed on the active region in this order, and a floating gate electrode formed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer so as to intersect the length direction of the channel and extend to the upper surfaces of the element isolation films at both sides of the channel, thereby surrounding the channel.

Non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same

A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate having a memory block and a logic block defined therein, forming a dummy gate pattern on the memory block; forming a first region of a first conductivity type at one side of the dummy gate pattern and a second region of a second conductivity type at the other side of the dummy gate pattern, and forming a nonvolatile memory device electrically connected to the first region.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating semiconductor device

The nonvolatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a device isolation layer defining an active region in the semiconductor substrate. The device isolation layer includes a top surface lower than a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, such that a side-upper surface of the active region is exposed. A sense line crosses both the active region and the device isolation layer, and a word line, spaced apart from the sense line, crosses both the active region and the device isolation layer.

Nonvolatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same

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