Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Wan-don Kim

Sang-Jin Hyun

Cha-young Yoo

Oh-seong Kwon

Jae-Yeol Song

Hoon-Joo Na

Hyeok-Jun Son

Yong-Suk Tak

Suk-jin Chung

Seok-Jun Won

Jin-Won Kim

Jae-hyoung Choi

Kyu-Ho Cho

Sung-Tae Kim

Han-jin Lim

Seung-hwan Lee

Bong-jin Kuh

Jin-il Lee

Hyung-suk Jung

Byung-Hong Chung

Kwang-Hee Lee

Jae-Hyun Joo

Sung-kee Han

Sang-jin Hyun

Beom-Seok Kim

Soon-Wook Jung

Jong-Han Lee

Geun-Kyu Choi

Jeong-hyuk Yim

Hyun-Jeong Yang

Ki-chul Kim

Han-Mei Choi

Jin-wook Lee

Dong-Soo Lee

Yong-Kuk Jeong

Jae-Soon Lim

Youn-soo Kim

Cha-Young Yoo

Jin-Yong Kim

Yun-Jung Lee

Young-Sun Kim

Eun-ae Chung

Sang-Yeol Kang

Jung-hee Chung

Sang-Don Nam

Suk-Jin Chung

Ki-Hyung Ko

Jeong-hee Chung

Doo-sup Hwang

Ji-Eun Lim

Jin-Kyu Jang

Kab-jin Nam

Yoon-Tae Hwang

Jung-Hee Chung

Kee-sang Kwon

Kuo Tai Huang

Jae-hyun Joo

Su-young Bae

Sung-woo Myung

An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a substrate having a fin-type active region extending in a first direction, a gate structure intersecting the fin-type active region on the substrate, the gate structure extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to a top surface of the substrate, source and drain regions on both sides of the gate structure, and a first contact structure electrically connected to one of the source and drain regions, the first contact structure including a first contact plug including a first material and a first wetting layer surrounding the first contact plug, the first wetting layer including a second material having a lattice constant that differs from a lattice constant of the first material by about 10% or less.

Integrated circuit devices and method of manufacturing the same

Integrated circuit devices include a substrate including first and second fin-type active regions and first and second gate structures. The first gate structure includes first gate insulating layer on the first fin-type active region to cover upper surface and both side surfaces of the first fin-type active region, first gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer and has first thickness in first direction perpendicular to upper surface of the substrate, and second gate electrode on the first gate electrode. The second gate structure includes second gate insulating layer on the second fin-type active region to cover upper surface and both side surfaces of the second fin-type active region, third gate insulating layer on the second gate insulating layer, third gate electrode on the third gate insulating layer and has second thickness different from the first thickness in the first direction, and fourth gate electrode on the third gate electrode.

Methods of manufacturing integrated circuit devices having a fin-type active region

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, a first transistor formed in the first region and formed by a first gate line including a first lower metal-containing layer and a first upper metal-containing layer, and a second transistor formed in the second region and formed by a second gate line having an equal width to that of the first gate line and including a second lower metal-containing layer and a second upper metal-containing layer on the second upper metal-containing layer, wherein each of an uppermost end of the first upper metal-containing layer and an uppermost end of the second lower metal-containing layer has a higher level than an uppermost end of the first lower metal-containing layer.

Semiconductor devices having transistors with different work function layers

A semiconductor device includes active regions on a semiconductor substrate, gate structures on separate, respective active regions, and source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of separate, respective gate structures. Each separate gate structure includes a sequential stack of a high dielectric layer, a first work function metal layer, a second work function metal layer having a lower work function than the first work function metal layer, and a gate metal layer. First work function metal layers of the gate structures have different thicknesses, such that the gate structures include a largest gate structure where the first work function metal layer of the largest gate structure has a largest thickness of the first work function metal layers. The largest gate structure includes a capping layer on the high dielectric layer of the largest gate structure, where the capping layer includes one or more impurity elements.

Semiconductor devices having multi-threshold voltage

A semiconductor device includes a first transistor comprising a first dielectric film on a substrate and a first work function metal film of a first conductivity type on the first dielectric film, a second transistor comprising a second dielectric film on the substrate and a second work function metal film of the first conductivity type on the second dielectric film, and a third transistor comprising a third dielectric film on the substrate and a third work function metal film of the first conductivity type on the third dielectric film. The first dielectric film comprises a work function tuning material and the second dielectric film does not comprise the work function tuning material. The first work function metal film has different thickness than the third work function metal film. Related methods are also described.

Semiconductor devices having work function metal films and tuning materials

In a semiconductor device including a gate line having a relatively narrow width and a relatively smaller pitch and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, the semiconductor device includes a substrate having a fin-type active region, a gate insulating layer that covers an upper surface and sides of the fin-type active region, and a gate line that extends and intersects the fin-type active region while covering the upper surface and the both sides of the fin-type active region, the gate line being on the gate insulating layer, wherein a central portion of an upper surface of the gate line in a cross-section perpendicular to an extending direction of the gate line has a concave shape.

Finfet semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

Provided are a semiconductor device configured to block a physical diffusion path by forming an oxide layer between barrier layers to prevent impurities from being diffused through the physical diffusion path between the barrier layers, and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a gate insulation layer formed on a substrate, a first barrier layer formed on the gate insulation layer, an oxide layer formed on the first barrier layer, the oxide layer including an oxide formed by oxidizing a material included in the first barrier layer, a second barrier layer formed on the oxide layer, a gate electrode formed on the second barrier layer, and source/drains disposed at opposite sides of the gate electrode in the substrate.

Semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating the same

Integrated circuit devices having a Fin-type active region and methods of manufacturing the same

Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes an insulating layer. The semiconductor device includes a rare earth element supply layer on the insulating layer. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a metal layer that is on the rare earth element supply layer. The rare earth element supply layer is between the insulating layer and the metal layer. Methods of forming semiconductor devices are also provided.

Semiconductor devices including a rare earth element and methods of forming semiconductor devices including a rare earth element

A semiconductor device includes a plurality of lower electrodes having a vertical length greater than a horizontal width on a substrate, a supporter disposed between the lower electrodes, an upper electrode disposed on the lower electrodes, and a capacitor dielectric layer disposed between the lower electrodes and the upper electrode. The supporter includes a first element, a second element, and oxygen, an oxide of the second element has a higher band gap energy than an oxide of the first element, and the content of the second element in the supporter is from about 10 at % to 90 at %.

Semiconductor device having supporter

Provided is a semiconductor device including first, second and third source/drain regions. A first conductive plug in contact with the first source/drain regions, having a first width and a first height, and including a first material is provided. An interlayer insulating layer covering the first conductive plug and the substrate is disposed. A second conductive plug vertically penetrating the interlayer insulating layer to be in contact with the second source/drain regions, having a second width and a second height, and including a second material is provided. A third conductive plug vertically penetrating the interlayer insulating layer to be in contact with the third source/drain regions, having a third width and a third height, and including a third material is disposed. The second material includes a noble metal, a noble metal oxide or a perovskite-based conductive oxide.

Semiconductor device having metal plug and method of forming the same

Semiconductor device having supporter and method of forming the same

A semiconductor device having a dielectric layer with improved electrical characteristics and associated methods, the semiconductor device including a lower metal layer, a dielectric layer, and an upper metal layer sequentially disposed on a semiconductor substrate and an insertion layer disposed between the dielectric layer and at least one of the lower metal layer and the upper metal layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes a metal oxide film and the insertion layer includes a metallic material film.

Method of fabricating semiconductor device having dielectric layer with improved electrical characteristics

A plurality of metal patterns are disposed on a substrate. A support structure is provided between the plurality of metal patterns. The support structure has a supporter and a glue layer. Each of the plurality of metal patterns has a greater vertical length than a horizontal length on the substrate when viewed from a cross-sectional view. The supporter has a band gap energy of at least 4.5 eV. The glue layer is in contact with the plurality of metal patterns. The supporter and the glue layer are formed of different materials.

Semiconductor device having glue layer and supporter

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