Abstract:
A cleaning apparatus includes a gas supply line and a cleaning liquid supply line. A nozzle is connected to the gas and the cleaning liquid supply lines. The nozzle applies the cleaning liquid to a substrate. A gas entrance port at a top of a body of the nozzle is connected to the gas supply line. A first cleaning liquid entrance port is disposed on a sidewall of the nozzle body and is connected to the cleaning liquid supply line. A fluid injection port is disposed at a bottom of the nozzle body and discharges both the gas and the cleaning liquid. An internal passage of the nozzle body connects each of the gas entrance port and the first cleaning liquid entrance port to the fluid injection port. The fluid injection port has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the first cleaning liquid entrance port.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second region, a bit line structure on the first region, key structures on the second region, each key structure having an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the bit line structure, a first trench disposed between two adjacent key structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a filling pattern in a lower portion of the first trench, the filling pattern having a flat upper surface and including a first conductive material, and a first conductive structure on the flat upper surface of the filling pattern, an upper sidewall of the first trench, and the upper surface of each of the plurality of key structures, the first conductive structure including a second conductive material.
Abstract:
A cleaning apparatus includes a gas supply line and a cleaning liquid supply line. A nozzle is connected to the gas and the cleaning liquid supply lines. The nozzle applies the cleaning liquid to a substrate. A gas entrance port at a top of a body of the nozzle is connected to the gas supply line. A first cleaning liquid entrance port is disposed on a sidewall of the nozzle body and is connected to the cleaning liquid supply line. A fluid injection port is disposed at a bottom of the nozzle body and discharges both the gas and the cleaning liquid. An internal passage of the nozzle body connects each of the gas entrance port and the first cleaning liquid entrance port to the fluid injection port. The fluid injection port has a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the first cleaning liquid entrance port.
Abstract:
A slurry composition is disclosed which includes: a corrosion inhibitor including a material selected from carbon allotropes and derivatives thereof; and an oxidant. A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device is disclosed which includes: forming a first metal film and a second metal film on a substrate, the first metal film and the second metal film respectively including different metals; and polishing, by using the slurry composition, a polishing target surface at which the first metal film and the second metal film are exposed.
Abstract:
Provided are a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The device may include a substrate including a peripheral circuit region and a cell array region, peripheral gate stacks provided on the peripheral circuit region of the substrate, and an electrode structure provided on the cell array region of the substrate. The electrode structure may include a lower electrode, a lower insulating layer covering the lower electrode, and upper electrodes and upper insulating layers, which are vertically and alternately stacked on the lower insulating layer. The lower insulating layer may be extended from the cell array region to the peripheral circuit region to cover the peripheral gate stacks, and a top surface of the lower insulating layer may be higher on the peripheral circuit region than on the cell array region.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device is manufactured using dual metal silicide layers. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions, a first metal gate electrode on the substrate in the first region, a second metal gate electrode on the substrate in the second region, a first epitaxial layer on and in the substrate at both sides of the first metal gate electrode, a second epitaxial layer on and in the substrate at both sides of the second metal gate electrode, a first metal silicide layer on the first epitaxial layer, a second metal silicide layer on the second epitaxial layer, an interlayer dielectric layer on the first and second metal silicide layers, contact plugs passing through the interlayer dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first and second metal silicide layers.
Abstract:
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include preparing a semiconductor substrate, forming insulating patterns including a trench on the semiconductor substrate, conformally forming a metal layer covering an inner surface of the trench on the insulating patterns, conformally forming a protecting layer on the metal layer, and performing a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process on the protecting layer and the metal layer until top surfaces of the insulating patterns are exposed, thereby forming a metal pattern and a protecting pattern in the trench. The CMP process may use a slurry including polishing particles having negative charges.
Abstract:
An offset data correction method includes measuring a measurement target that has undergone a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process, generating an offset correction model based on the measurement of the measurement target, and using the offset correction model, correcting measured data obtained from the measurement of the measurement target, wherein the offset correction model is trained by using the measured data and layout data of the measurement target as inputs.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second region, a bit line structure on the first region, key structures on the second region, each key structure having an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the bit line structure, a first trench disposed between two adjacent key structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a filling pattern in a lower portion of the first trench, the filling pattern having a flat upper surface and including a first conductive material, and a first conductive structure on the flat upper surface of the filling pattern, an upper sidewall of the first trench, and the upper surface of each of the plurality of key structures, the first conductive structure including a second conductive material.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first and second region, a bit line structure on the first region, key structures on the second region, each key structure having an upper surface substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the bit line structure, a first trench disposed between two adjacent key structures spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a filling pattern in a lower portion of the first trench, the filling pattern having a flat upper surface and including a first conductive material, and a first conductive structure on the flat upper surface of the filling pattern, an upper sidewall of the first trench, and the upper surface of each of the plurality of key structures, the first conductive structure including a second conductive material.