Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Teawon Kim

Yurim Kim

Yong-Suk Tak

Kong-Soo Lee

Yong Suk Tak

Seohee Park

Sunyoung Lee

Hyung Joon Kim

Sunjung Kim

Seunghee Lee

Kongsoo Lee

Junghan Lee

Seungwoo Jang

Jiwon Yun

Se-Yeon Kim

Yongsuk Tak

Minjae Kang

A semiconductor apparatus includes a bit line extending in a first horizontal direction on a substrate; a channel layer on the bit line, the channel layer extending in a vertical direction, including a first oxide semiconductor material that includes indium, and having a first side wall and a second side wall; a word line on the first side wall of the channel layer; a contact forming region on a top surface and an upper portion of the second side wall of the channel layer, the contact forming region including a second oxide semiconductor material that includes indium and having a resistivity lower than a resistivity of the channel layer; a contact layer on the contact forming region; and a capacitor structure on a top surface of the contact layer.

Semiconductor apparatus

A semiconductor memory device includes a bit line, a channel pattern including a horizontal channel portion on the bit line and a vertical channel portion vertically protruding from the horizontal channel portion, a word line on the horizontal channel portion and on a sidewall of the vertical channel portion, and a gate insulating pattern between the word line and the channel pattern. The channel pattern includes an oxide semiconductor and includes first, second, and third channel layers sequentially stacked. The first to third channel layers include a first metal, and the second channel layer further includes a second metal different from the first metal. At least a portion of the first channel layer contacts the bit line.

Semiconductor memory device

Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising an oxide semiconductor layer on a substrate and including a first part and a pair of second parts that are spaced apart from each other across the first part, a gate electrode on the first part of the oxide semiconductor layer, and a pair of electrodes on corresponding second parts of the oxide semiconductor layer. A first thickness of the first part of the oxide semiconductor layer is less than a second thickness of each second part of the oxide semiconductor layer. A number of oxygen vacancies in the first part of the oxide semiconductor layer is less than a number of oxygen vacancies in each second part of the oxide semiconductor layer.

Oxide semiconductor device comprising oxygen vacancies

A semiconductor device includes a channel layer disposed on a substrate and a gate structure formed on or under the channel layer. The channel layer includes a single-layer oxide semiconductor material, the channel layer includes indium (In), gallium (Ga), and oxygen (O), the channel layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region, the third region contacting the gate structure, a second region between the first region and the third region, the first region is the closer to the substrate than the second region and the third region, each of the first region and the third region has a concentration of Ga higher than a concentration of In, and the second region has a concentration of In higher than a concentration of Ga.

Semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a conductive line extending on the substrate in a first horizontal direction; an isolation insulating layer extending on the substrate and the conductive line in a second horizontal direction intersecting with the first horizontal direction, and defining a channel trench extending through the isolation insulating layer from an upper surface of the isolation insulating layer to a lower surface of the isolation insulating layer; a crystalline oxide semiconductor layer extending along at least a portion of an inner side surface of the channel trench and at least a portion of a bottom surface of the channel trench and coming in contact with the conductive line; and a gate electrode extending on the crystalline oxide semiconductor layer inside the channel trench in the second horizontal direction.

A method of forming a low-k layer includes forming a layer by providing a silicon source, a carbon source, an oxygen source, and a nitrogen source onto a substrate. The forming of the layer includes a plurality of main cycles, and each of the main cycles includes providing the silicon source, providing the carbon source, providing the oxygen source, and providing the nitrogen source, each of which is performed at least one time. Each of the main cycles includes sub-cycles in which the providing of the carbon source and the providing of the oxygen source are alternately performed.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Teawon Kim