Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a wiring line on a substrate, a first line portion having a line shape in a first direction, a head hammer pattern connected to an end of the first line portion in the first direction; a second wiring line spaced from the first wiring line in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second wiring line including a second line portion parallel to the first line portion; a first contact plug electrically connecting the first line portion and the second line portion, the first contact plug being positioned adjacent to the first end of the first line portion and a second end of the second line portion in the first direction. The first contact plug has a bottom surface higher than a bottom surface of the first and second wiring lines. The upper surface of the first head hammer pattern contacts an insulation material.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device includes an active pattern; a gate structure on the active pattern; a bit-line structure electrically connected to the active pattern; a storage node contact electrically connected to the active pattern; and a landing pad electrically connected to the storage node contact, wherein the landing pad includes a first pad flat sidewall and a second pad flat sidewall that are opposite to each other, a third pad flat sidewall between the first pad flat sidewall and the second pad flat sidewall, a fourth pad flat sidewall between the first pad flat sidewall and the second pad flat sidewall, a first pad curved sidewall between the first pad flat sidewall and the third pad flat sidewall, and a second pad curved sidewall between the first pad flat sidewall and the fourth pad flat sidewall.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes a display; a memory configured to store at least one application and instructions, a processor configured to execute the instructions to execute at least one application, extract attribute information corresponding to at least one input field included in an execution screen of the at least one application in response to the execution of the at least one application, configure an input list based on the at least one input field, based on the extracted attribute information, configure a key input interface to correspond to the at least one input field, and control the display to at least partially display the execution screen of the at least one application, the input list, and the key input interface.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes active patterns disposed on a substrate and including central portions, respectively, bit lines extending in a first direction on the central portions of the active patterns, word lines intersecting the active patterns in a second direction intersecting the first direction, fence patterns disposed between the bit lines adjacent to each other on the word lines, a contact trench region intersecting the active patterns and the word lines in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions, and bit line contacts and filling insulation patterns alternately arranged in the third direction in the contact trench region. The first to third directions are parallel to a bottom surface of the substrate. The filling insulation patterns are disposed between the word lines and the fence patterns, respectively.
Abstract:
Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a capacitor structure including a plurality of lower electrodes, a dielectric layer that covers surfaces of the plurality of lower electrodes, and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer. The semiconductor device further includes a support structure that supports the plurality of lower electrodes. The support structure includes a first support region that covers sidewalls of one of the plurality of lower electrodes, and an opening that envelops the first support region when the semiconductor device is viewed in plan view.
Abstract:
A method for displaying a user interface (UI) in an electronic device having a touch screen is provided. The method receiving an input for executing the UI of a first user function. The method further includes, in response to the input, displaying the UI having an object associated with the first user function and first items associated with the first user function and arranged in a radial pattern around the object, and when an item is selected from the first items and is dragged to the object, executing the first user function in connection with the particular item.
Abstract:
The present inventive concepts provide methods for fabricating semiconductor devices. The method may comprise providing a substrate, stacking a conductive layer and a lower mask layer on the substrate, forming a plurality of hardmask layers each having an island shape on the lower mask layer, forming a plurality of upper mask patterns having island shapes arranged to expose portions of the lower mask layer, etching the exposed portions of the lower mask layer to expose portions of the conductive layer, and etching the exposed portions of the conductive layer to form a plurality of contact holes each exposing a portion of the substrate.
Abstract:
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and their fabrication methods. The semiconductor device may include a substrate including first and second cell active patterns and a dummy active pattern, a cell gate dielectric layer on the first and second cell active patterns and the dummy active pattern, a first cell gate conductive layer on the cell gate dielectric layer, and a bit-line structure connected to the first cell active pattern. A distance between the second cell and dummy active patterns is less than that between the first cell and dummy active patterns. The first cell gate conductive layer may include a dummy overlap section overlapping the dummy active pattern and the second cell active pattern, and a cell overlap section overlapping the first cell active pattern. A top surface of the dummy overlap section may be at a level higher than that of a top surface of the cell overlap section.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a cell region, a peripheral region, and a boundary region therebetween, a cell device isolation pattern on the cell region of the substrate to define cell active patterns, a peripheral device isolation pattern on the peripheral region of the substrate to define peripheral active patterns, and an insulating isolation pattern on the boundary region of the substrate, the insulating isolation pattern being between the cell active patterns and the peripheral active patterns, wherein a bottom surface of the insulating isolation pattern includes a first edge adjacent to a side surface of a corresponding one of the cell active patterns, and a second edge adjacent to a side surface of a corresponding one of the peripheral active patterns, the first edge being at a height lower than the second edge, when measured from a bottom surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes forming a bit line and a bit line capping pattern on the semiconductor substrate, forming a first spacer covering a sidewall of the bit line capping pattern and a sidewall of the bit line, forming a contact plug in contact with a sidewall of the first spacer and having a top surface that is lower than an upper end of the first spacer, removing an upper portion of the first spacer, forming a first sacrificial layer closing at least an entrance of the void, forming a second spacer covering the sidewall of the bit line capping pattern and having a bottom surface in contact with a top surface of the first spacer, and removing the first sacrificial layer. The bit line capping pattern is on the bit line. The contact plug includes a void exposed on the top surface.