Nan Ya Technology Corporation

Ying-Cheng Chuang

Chung-Lin Huang

Chi-Hui Lin

Ching-Nan Hsiao

Tsung-Cheng Chen

Zhi-Yi Huang

Shih-Yang Chiu

Shyam Surthi

Chao-Wen Lay

Sheng-Wei Yang

Chung-Hsin Lin

Hung-Mo Wu

Ping-Heng Wu

Yu-Ting Lin

Hsu Chiang

Lai-Cheng Tien

Chih-Lin Huang

Tzu-Li Tseng

The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a residual nitrogen, an oxide layer, a plurality of first contacts, and a plurality of second contacts. The substrate includes a plurality of pillars in an array region of the substrate, wherein a top surface of each of the plurality of pillars is a substantially planar surface. The residual nitrogen is partially disposed on sidewalls of the pillars proximal to the top surfaces of the pillars. The oxide layer surrounds each of the pillars. The plurality of first contacts extends from the top surfaces of the pillars into the pillars. The plurality of second contacts extends from the top surface of the first dielectric layer into the first dielectric layer.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure including nitrogen treatment and semiconductor structure thereof

The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. A substrate is provided. A multi-layer structure is formed over the substrate, wherein the multi-layer structure includes a semiconductive material layer and an oxide layer over the semiconductive material layer. The oxide layer is patterned to form a first patterned layer. A second patterned layer is formed on the semiconductive material layer and alternately arranged with the first patterned layer. A first etching operation is performed on the substrate using a comprehensive pattern of the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure using multi-layer hard mask

The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure. A substrate is provided, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of pillars, and a top surface of each of the plurality of pillars is a substantially planar surface. A first oxide layer is formed over the substrate conformal to the pillars, wherein the formation of the first oxide layer includes oxidizing top corners of the pillars, thereby causing the top surface of each of the plurality of pillars to become a convex surface. A first dielectric layer is formed among the pillars, wherein the first oxide layer above the plurality of pillars is partially exposed through the first dielectric layer. A planarization is performed on the pillars to partially or entirely remove the convex surface.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure including a planarization and semiconductor structure thereof

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a metallization layer on the substrate; forming a first sacrificial layer and a second sacrificial layer; forming a first mask layer and a second mask layer, wherein the first mask layer covers the first sacrificial layer, the second mask layer covers the second sacrificial layer; forming a first width controlling element on a lateral surface of the first mask layer and a second width controlling element on a lateral surface of the second mask layer; removing the first mask layer and the second mask layer; and patterning the metallization layer to form a first word line between the first sacrificial layer and the second sacrificial layer, wherein a dimension of the first word line depends on a dimension of the first width controlling element.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device

The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure. The method includes: forming a conformal layer over a first patterned layer over a substrate; forming a second layer over the conformal layer and between portions of the first patterned layer; performing a first etching to form a second patterned layer and a patterned conformal layer; performing a second etching to remove a portion of the first patterned layer to form a first inclined member of the first patterned layer tapered away from the substrate and lining a vertical portion of the patterned conformal layer, and to remove a portion of the second patterned layer to form a second inclined member of the second patterned layer tapered away from the substrate and lining the vertical portion of the patterned conformal layer; and performing a third etching to remove the vertical portions of the patterned conformal layer.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure with improved etching process

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a metallization layer on the substrate; forming an upper dielectric layer over the metallization layer; forming a first sacrificial layer and a second sacrificial layer, each of which penetrates the upper dielectric layer and the metallization layer; removing the upper dielectric layer; forming a width controlling structure between the first sacrificial layer and the second sacrificial layer, wherein the width controlling structure defines a recess exposing the metallization layer; forming a protective layer within the recess of the width controlling structure; removing the width controlling structure to expose a portion of the metallization layer; and patterning the metallization layer to form a word line between the first sacrificial layer and the second sacrificial layer.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device with word lines

A semiconductor memory device manufacturing method includes: sequentially forming a lower oxide layer, a word line metal layer and an upper oxide layer over at least a portion of a memory cell; forming a through hole passing through the upper oxide layer, the word line metal layer and the lower oxide layer to expose the portion of the memory cell; forming a sacrificial pillar into the through hole; removing the upper oxide layer to expose a top portion of the sacrificial pillar; sequentially forming a first oxide spacer sidewall, a nitride spacer sidewall and a second oxide spacer sidewall on a sidewall of the top portion of the sacrificial pillar; removing the nitride spacer sidewall to form a void gap; etching the word line metal layer through the void gap to form separate word lines.

Semiconductor memory device manufacturing method

The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate, forming a metallization layer on the substrate, forming an upper dielectric layer over the metallization layer, forming a first sacrificial layer, a second sacrificial layer, and a third sacrificial layer penetrating the upper dielectric layer and the metallization layer, wherein the first sacrificial layer is aligned with the third sacrificial layer along a first axis, and the second sacrificial layer is free from overlapping the first sacrificial layer and the third sacrificial layer along the first axis, forming a width controlling structure between the first sacrificial layer and the third sacrificial layer, wherein the width controlling structure defines a recess exposing the upper dielectric layer, forming a protective layer within the recess, removing the width controlling structure to expose a portion of the metallization layer.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a substrate. The method also includes forming a first trench within the substrate. The method further includes forming a first nitridation layer within the first trench. In addition, the method includes forming a first isolation layer on the first nitridation layer to form a first isolation structure.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device including isolation structure with nitridation layer

The present disclosure provides a method of preparing active areas. The method includes the operations of: receiving a substrate having an oxide layer, a nitride layer, and a silicon layer thereon; forming a patterned photoresist layer on the silicon layer; depositing a mask layer to cover a contour of the patterned photoresist layer; coating a carbon layer on the mask layer; etching the carbon layer, the mask layer, and the silicon layer to expose a top surface of the nitride layer; forming a plurality of opens in the oxide layer to expose a top surface of the substrate; and growing an epitaxial layer from the top surface of the substrate in the plurality of opens to form the active areas.

Method of preparing active areas

The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a substrate defined with a peripheral region and an array area at least partially surrounded by the peripheral region; disposing an insulating layer over the substrate; disposing a capping layer over the insulating layer; disposing a hardmask stack on the capping layer; patterning the hardmask stack; removing portions of the capping layer exposed through the hardmask stack; removing portions of the insulating layer exposed through the hardmask stack; removing portions of the substrate exposed through the capping layer and the insulating layer to form a plurality of fins in the array area and a first elongated member at least partially surrounding the plurality of fins; removing the hardmask stack; and forming an isolation over the substrate and surrounding the plurality of fins and the first elongated member.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor structure having dummy pattern around array area

The present disclosure is related to a method of forming a pattern, including the steps of: providing a structure including a substrate and a target layer, in which the target layer is disposed on the substrate, and the target layer includes a central area and a periphery area; forming a plurality of core patterns and a linear spacer pattern on the central area, in which a width of the linear spacer pattern is wider than 50 nm; covering a photoresist on the periphery area; removing a portion of the central area not covered by the plurality of core patterns and not covered by the linear spacer pattern to form a pattern in the central area, and removing the photoresist, the linear spacer pattern and the plurality of core patterns to expose the pattern.

Method of forming a pattern

A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes following steps. A semiconductor material structure is formed over a substrate. A first pad layer is formed over the semiconductor material structure. The first pad layer and the semiconductor material structure are etched to form a trench. An oxidation process is performed on a sidewall of the semiconductor material structure to form a first oxide structure on the sidewall of the semiconductor material structure. A second oxide structure is formed in the trench.

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