Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Seoul National University

Wook-hyun Kwon

Byung-Gook Park

Yoon Jae Kim

Yun-Heub Song

Kyung-Soo Kim

Sang-Pil Sim

Nak-jin Son

Chan-Kwang Park

Yeon-Ho Park

Seon-Ah Nam

Gi-bong Lee

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of active fins over a semiconductor substrate, sequentially forming first and second hard mask layers over the active fins, forming a first hard mask pattern by etching the second hard mask layer, trimming the first hard mask pattern to form a trimmed hard mask pattern, forming a first photo resist pattern over the first hard mask layer, forming second hard mask patterns by etching the first hard mask layer by using the trimmed hard mask pattern and the first photo resist pattern as an etching mask, and forming active fin patterns by etching the active fins by using the second hard mask patterns as an etching mask.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

Provided are a semiconductor device and a methods of forming and operating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include active pillars extending from a semiconductor substrate and disposed two dimensionally disposed on the semiconductor substrate, upper interconnections connecting the active pillars along one direction, lower interconnections crossing the upper interconnections and disposed between the active pillars, word lines crossing the upper interconnections and disposed between the active pillars, and data storage patterns disposed between the word lines and the active pillars.

Methods of forming and operating semiconductor device

Semiconductor device and methods of forming and operating the same

A method of forming a contactless nonvolatile memory device includes preparing a semiconductor substrate including a cell array region, forming a plurality of mask patterns being parallel to each other on the semiconductor substrate in the cell array region, etching the semiconductor substrate using the mask patterns as an etch mask to form a plurality of recess regions, forming a gate insulating layer on sidewalls and bottoms of the recess regions, forming a floating gate layer on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to fill the recess regions, planarizing the floating gate layer to expose upper surfaces of the mask patterns and to form floating gate patterns in the recess regions, forming buried impurity diffusion regions in the semiconductor substrate under the mask patterns, forming an intergate dielectric layer, forming a control gate layer, and patterning the control gate layer, the intergate dielectric layer and the floating gate pattern to form a plurality of parallel word lines crossing the mask patterns, floating gates between the word lines and the recess regions, and an intergate dielectric pattern between the floating gates and the word lines, and to expose the recess regions and the mask patterns between word lines.

Contactless nonvolatile memory device and method of forming the same

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Yongin-si, South Korea

Wook-hyun Kwon