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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Geunwoo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Yoon Tae Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Wandon Kim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Hyunbae Lee, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A semiconductor device including a substrate including an active pattern; a gate electrode crossing the active pattern and extending in a first direction; a source/drain pattern on the active pattern and adjacent to a side of the gate electrode; and an active contact in a contact hole on the source/drain pattern, wherein the active contact includes a first contact in a lower region of the contact hole, the first contact including a barrier pattern and a conductive pattern; a diffusion barrier layer on the first contact; and a second contact on the diffusion barrier layer, and a top surface of the diffusion barrier layer is coplanar with a top surface of the barrier pattern of the first contact.