Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Woo Kyung You

Jong Min Baek

Byung Hee Kim

Sang Shin Jang

Sang Hoon Ahn

Kyu Hee Han

Jang Ho Lee

Kyu-Hee Han

Eui Bok Lee

Nae In Lee

Sung Jin Kang

Hyeok Sang Oh

Woo Jin Lee

Doo-Hwan Park

Myung Geun Song

Vietha Nguyen

Deok Young Jung

Viet Ha Nguyen

Han Seong Kim

Eun Ji Jung

Na Ein Lee

Byung Kwon Cho

Han Bit Kim

SAng Hyeon Kang

Tae Soo Kim

Thomas Oszinda

Su Hyun Bark

Sang Bom Kang

A semiconductor device including a first interlayer insulating film; a conductive pattern in the first interlayer insulating film; a resistance pattern on the conductive pattern; an upper etching stopper film spaced apart from the resistance pattern, extending in parallel with a top surface of the resistance pattern, and including a first metal; a lower etching stopper film on the conductive pattern, extending in parallel with a top surface of the first interlayer insulating film, and including a second metal; and a second interlayer insulating film on the upper etching stopper film and the lower etching stopper film, wherein a distance from a top surface of the second interlayer insulating film to a top surface of the upper etching stopper film is smaller than a distance from the top surface of the second interlayer insulating film to a top surface of the lower etching stopper film.

Semiconductor device

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A semiconductor device includes an element layer, a plurality of first interconnect lines on the element layer, a first insulation layer including carbon having a uniform concentration distribution between the first interconnect lines, a plurality of second interconnect lines spaced from the first interconnect lines, and a second insulation layer between the second interconnect lines. An air spacing is included between the second interconnect lines.

Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor devices may include a substrate, a first insulating film on the substrate, a lower metal layer in the first insulating film, and a second insulating film on the first insulating film. The lower metal layer may be in the second insulating film, the second insulating film may include a lower surface facing the substrate and an upper surface that is opposite the lower surface, and the upper surface of the second insulating film may be upwardly convex. The semiconductor devices may further include a barrier dielectric film including a recess on the second insulating film, and a via metal layer that is in the recess of the barrier dielectric film and electrically connected with the lower metal layer. The first insulating film and the second insulating film may be sequentially stacked on the substrate in a vertical direction, and a longest vertical distance between an upper surface of the lower metal layer and the substrate may be less than a longest vertical distance between the upper surface of the second insulating film and the substrate.

Semiconductor devices

A semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric film on a substrate, first and second wires respectively extending in a first direction within the first interlayer dielectric film, the first and second wires being adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction, a hard mask pattern on the first interlayer dielectric film, the hard mask pattern including an opening, and an air gap within the first interlayer dielectric film, the air gap including a first portion overlapping vertically with the opening and a second portion not overlapping with the opening in the first direction.

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

Semiconductor device with air gap between wires and method for fabricating the same

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a lower wire, an etch stop layer on the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer, an upper wire disposed in the interlayer insulating layer and separated from the lower wire and a via formed in the interlayer insulating layer and the etch stop layer and connecting the lower wire with the upper wire, wherein the via comprises a first portion in the etch stop layer and a second portion in the interlayer insulating layer, and wherein a sidewall of the first portion of the via increases stepwise.

A semiconductor device includes a first insulating interlayer on a substrate, metal lines in the first insulating interlayer, a first air gap between the metal lines in a first region of the substrate and a second air gap between the first insulating interlayer and at least one of the metal lines in a second region of the substrate, a liner layer covering top surfaces and side walls of the metal lines and a top surface and a side wall of the first insulating interlayer, adjacent to the first and second air gaps, and a second insulating interlayer on the liner layer and contacting the liner layer.

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming grooves in a first dielectric layer on a substrate, the first dielectric layer including a first part between the grooves, forming a first barrier layer and an interconnect layer in each groove, recessing the interconnect layer and the first barrier layer, forming a capping pattern on the recessed interconnect layer, etching at least a portion of the first part by a first etching process, sequentially etching the capping pattern and the at least a portion of the IMD part by a second etching process to form a trench, conformally forming a second barrier layer in the trench and on the recessed interconnection layer, and forming a second dielectric layer on the second barrier layer not to fill the trench such that an air gap is formed in the trench.

Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same

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