Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Woo-bin Song

Byeong-Chan Lee

Nam-Kyu Kim

Su-Jin Jung

Bon-Young Koo

Seok-Hoon Kim

Heung-Kyu Park

Sang-Woo Lee

In-gyu Baek

Sang-Bom Kang

In-Sun Park

Mirco Cantoro

Min-hee Cho

Young-Pil Kim

Sun-ghil Lee

Hei-seung Kim

Jung-Ho Yoo

Beom-yong Hwang

Keum-Seok Park

A semiconductor device includes a channel layer located on a substrate, the channel layer including a conductive oxide, a gate structure located on the channel layer, the gate structure including a gate electrode and gate spacers located on both sidewalls of the gate electrode, and source and drain regions located on both sides of the gate structure in recess regions having a first height from a top surface of the channel layer. The source and drain regions are configured to apply tensile stress to a portion of the channel layer located under the gate structure.

Semiconductor devices

A semiconductor device may include first and second fins formed side by side on a substrate, a first elevated doped region formed on the first fin and having a first doping concentration of impurities, a second elevated doped region formed on the second fin, and a first bridge connecting the first elevated doped region and the second elevated doped region to each other. Methods of manufacturing such a semiconductor device are also disclosed.

Semiconductor device with adjacent source/drain regions connected by a semiconductor bridge, and method for fabricating the same

FinFET with a single contact to multiple fins bridged together to form a source/drain region of the transistor

In a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same, the semiconductor device includes a gate structure crossing an active region of a silicon substrate. Spacers are provided on both sides of the gate structure, respectively. Silicon patterns fill up recessed portions of the silicon substrate and on both sides of the spacers and has a shape protruding higher than a bottom surface of the gate structure, a lower edge of the protruded portion partially makes contact with a top surface of the isolation region, a first side and a second side of each of the silicon patterns, which are opposite to each other in a channel width direction in the gate structure, are inclined toward an inside of the active region. A highly doped impurity region is provided in the silicon patterns and doped with an N type impurity. The semiconductor device represents superior threshold voltage characteristics.

A semiconductor device comprises a substrate and first and second stress-generating epitaxial regions on the substrate and spaced apart from each other. A channel region is on the substrate and positioned between the first and second stress-generating epitaxial regions. A gate electrode is on the channel region. The channel region is an epitaxial layer, and the first and second stress-generating epitaxial regions impart a stress on the channel region.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A non-volatile memory device may include a first wordline on a substrate, an insulating layer on the first wordline, and a second wordline on the insulating layer so that the insulating layer is between the first and second wordlines. A bit pillar may extend adjacent the first wordline, the insulating layer, and the second wordline in a direction perpendicular with respect to a surface of the substrate, and the bit pillar may be electrically conductive. In addition, a first memory cell may include a first resistance changeable element electrically coupled between the first wordline and the bit pillar, and a second memory cell may include a second resistance changeable element electrically coupled between the second wordline and the bit pillar. Related methods and systems are also discussed.

Non-volatile memory devices having resistance changeable elements and related systems and methods

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Woo-bin Song