Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Skhynix Inc.

Young Man Cho

Do Hyung Kim

Seung Wan Kim

An electronic device includes a device isolation film formed to define an active region in a substrate, a first gate buried to traverse the active region and the device isolation film in a first direction, and a second gate coupled to the first gate buried in the device isolation film, and extended in a second direction.

Semiconductor device having extended buried gate

A method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. In the semiconductor device, a gate is formed to enclose a fin structure in a 6Fsaddle fin gate structure transistor, so that the size of a channel region increases. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, a method for forming a semiconductor device includes: defining an active region by forming a device isolation film over a semiconductor substrate; forming a first recess extending to a first level in the active region; forming a sacrificial film at a lower portion of the first recess; forming a fin structure over the sacrificial film; separating the fin structure from the semiconductor substrate in the active region by removing the sacrificial film and forming a hole between the fin structure and the active region; and forming a gate to enclose the fin structure.

Method for forming semiconductor device

The invention relates to a semiconductor device, wherein a storage node contact hole is made large to solve any problem caused during etching a storage node contact hole with a small CD, a landing plug is formed to lower plug resistance. A semiconductor device according to the invention comprises: first and second active regions formed in a substrate, the first and second active being adjacent to each other, each of the first and second active regions including a bit-line contact region and a storage node contact region and a device isolation structure; a word line provided within a trench formed in the substrate; first and second storage node contact plugs assigned to the first and second active regions, respectively, the first and second storage node contact plugs being separated from each other by a bit line groove; and a bit line formed within the bit-line groove.

Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same

A semiconductor device capable of ensuring a sufficient area of a peripheral region by forming a gate spacer to have a uniform thickness in the peripheral region and reducing a fabrication cost by simplifying a mask process and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate disposed over a semiconductor substrate; a first spacer disposed over sidewalls of the gate; an insulating layer pattern disposed over sidewalls of the first spacer; and a second spacer disposed over the first spacer and the insulating pattern.

Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with gate spacer

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including an active area defined by an device isolation region, a buried gate formed on both side walls of a trench formed in the semiconductor substrate, and a storage node contact which is buried between the buried gates, and is connected to the active region of a middle portion of the trench and the device isolation region.

Semiconductor device and method for forming the same

A method for forming a semiconductor device includes: etching a hard mask layer and a conductive layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a lower structure being formed on the semiconductor substrate; forming a sacrificial insulating layer at upper parts of the etched hard mask layer and the etched conductive layer of a peripheral circuit region; forming an isolation insulating layer at an upper part of an isolation insulating layer of a cell region; forming spacers at sidewalls of the etched hard mask layer, the etched conductive layer, and the isolation insulating layer of the cell region, respectively; forming storage electrode contact plugs at both sides of each of the spacers, respectively; and removing the sacrificial insulating layer to expose the semiconductor substrate of the peripheral circuit region, and etching the lower structure to expose the semiconductor substrate of the peripheral circuit region.

Method for forming semiconductor device with buried gate structure

A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of vertical transistors each comprising barrier metal layers corresponding to source/drain regions in which a conduction region is formed under a channel region having a pillar form, and a bit line comprising a metal layer to connect the plurality of vertical transistors.

Method of manufacturing high-integrated semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufactured using the same

The invention relates to a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, wherein a storage node contact hole is made large to solve any problem caused during etching a storage node contact hole with a small CD, a landing plug is formed to lower plug resistance, and the SAC process is eliminated at the time of the bit line formation. A method of fabricating a semiconductor device according to the invention comprises: forming a device isolation film for defining a multiplicity of active regions in a semiconductor substrate; forming a multiplicity of buried word lines in the semiconductor substrate; forming a storage node contact hole for exposing a storage node contact region of two adjoining active regions; filling the storage node contact hole with a storage node contact plug material; forming a bit-line groove for exposing a bit-line contact region of the active region and splitting the storage node contact plug material into two; and burying the bit line into the bit-line groove.

A method for forming a transistor of a semiconductor device, includes forming a trench by etching a semiconductor substrate on which a pad oxide film and a pad nitride film are sequentially formed; forming a isolation oxide film by filling the trench with oxide; removing an upper portion of the isolation oxide film until an upper lateral portion of the semiconductor substrate is exposed; forming a barrier nitride film over the isolation oxide film, the semiconductor substrate, and the pad nitride film; forming a sacrificial oxide film over the barrier nitride film; performing a planarization process until the pad nitride film is exposed; performing a wet etching process until the active region is exposed; forming a photoresist pattern over the active region and the barrier nitride film; and performing a dry etching process by using the photoresist pattern as an etching mask, thereby forming a recessed gate trench.

Method for forming transistor of semiconductor device

Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. According to the present invention, an USG (undoped silicate glass) layer is utilized during a process of forming a capacitor to leave a hard mask layer and a polysilicon layer on the top surface of a peripheral circuit region, and then a plate electrode layer on the peripheral circuit region is removed in a subsequent process to prevent a cut fuse pattern from being oxidized, thereby improving device characteristics and reliability of the semiconductor device.

Method for manufacturing semiconductor device

A method for forming a step channel of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method for forming a step channel of a semiconductor device comprises forming a hard mask layer pattern defining a step channel region on a semiconductor substrate, forming a spacer on a sidewall of the hard mask layer pattern, and simultaneously etching the spacer and a predetermined thickness of the semiconductor substrate using the hard mask layer pattern and the spacer as an etching mask.

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Icheon, South Korea

Young Man Cho