Abstract:
OF THE DISCLOSURE A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the device including a substrate; an active pattern spaced apart from the substrate and extending in a first direction; and a gate structure on the active pattern and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein a lower portion of the active pattern extends in the first direction and includes a first lower surface that is sloped with respect to an upper surface of the substrate. FIG. 2
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device, the method including forming an active pattern on a substrate such that the active pattern includes sacrificial patterns and semiconductor patterns alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate; and forming first spacer patterns at both sides of each of the sacrificial patterns by performing an oxidation process, wherein the first spacer patterns correspond to oxidized portions of each of the sacrificial patterns, wherein the sacrificial patterns include a first semiconductor material containing impurities, wherein the semiconductor patterns include a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, and wherein the impurities include an element different from semiconductor elements of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material. FIG. 7
Abstract:
A power management approach for a mobile device includes comparing a battery provided power supply voltage to a reference voltage in order to generate an alarm signal. In response to the alarm signal the frequency of an operating clock applied to a system-on-chip is changed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active pattern, a channel pattern and a source/drain pattern on the active pattern, a gate electrode provided on the channel pattern and extended in a first direction, and an active contact coupled to the source/drain pattern. The active contact includes a buried portion buried in the source/drain pattern and a contact portion on the buried portion. The buried portion includes an expansion portion provided in a lower portion of the source/drain pattern and a vertical extension portion connecting the contact portion to the expansion portion.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes an active pattern protruding from a substrate, a gate structure crossing over the active pattern, and source/drain regions disposed on the active pattern at opposite sides of the gate structure. Each of the source/drain regions includes a first epitaxial pattern contacting the active pattern and a second epitaxial pattern on the, first epitaxial pattern. The first epitaxial pattern comprises a material having a lattice constant which is the same as that of the substrate, and the second epitaxial pattern comprises a material having a lattice constant greater than that of the first epitaxial pattern.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active pattern, a channel pattern on the active pattern, the channel pattern including a plurality of semiconductor patterns that are spaced apart from each other, a source/drain pattern electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns, an inner gate electrode between adjacent first and second semiconductor patterns of the plurality of semiconductor patterns, an inner gate insulating layer between the inner gate electrode and the first and second semiconductor patterns, an inner high-k dielectric layer between the inner gate electrode and the inner gate insulating layer, and an inner spacer between the inner gate insulating layer and the source/drain pattern. As the inner gate insulating layer includes an inner gate spacer, the inner gate electrode may stably fill the inner gate space. As a result, the electrical characteristics of the semiconductor device may be improved.
Abstract:
A power management approach for a mobile device includes comparing a battery provided power supply voltage to a reference voltage in order to generate an alarm signal. In response to the alarm signal the frequency of an operating clock applied to a system-on-chip is changed.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a cell region and a contact region with a peripheral circuit region, first and second stacks on the cell region, and a first peripheral transistor on the peripheral circuit region. Each of the first and second stacks includes semiconductor patterns stacked, in a vertical direction, on the cell region, bit lines stacked in the vertical direction on the cell region and respectively connected to first ends of the semiconductor patterns, each of the bit lines extending, in a horizontal direction with respect to the upper surface of the substrate, from the cell region to the contact region, and a word line disposed adjacent to the semiconductor patterns and extending in the vertical direction from the cell region of the substrate. The first peripheral transistor is disposed between the bit lines of the first stack and the bit lines of the second stack.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device comprises a fin structure on a substrate, device isolation patterns provided on the substrate and disposed on opposite sides of the fin structure, a gate electrode running across the fin structure and the device isolation patterns, a gate dielectric pattern between the gate electrode and the fin structure and between the gate electrode and the device isolation patterns, and a capping layer between the substrate and the device isolation patterns and between the fin structure and the device isolation patterns. The capping layer has a thickness greater than a thickness of the gate dielectric pattern.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including first and second PMOSFET regions, first and second active patterns on the first and second PMOSFET regions, first and second channel patterns on the first and second active patterns and each including semiconductor patterns, and first and second source/drain patterns connected to the first and second channel patterns. The first active pattern includes a first lower semiconductor layer, a first middle semiconductor layer, and a first upper semiconductor layer. Each of the first and second lower semiconductor layers includes silicon. The first middle semiconductor layer includes silicon-germanium. The first middle semiconductor layer has a width that decreases in a downward direction to a maximum value and then increases in the downward direction.