Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for forming a contact plug of a semiconductor device with a low contact resistance. The inventive method includes the steps of: forming a contact hole in an inter-layer insulating layer formed on a silicon substrate; removing a native oxide layer formed in the contact hole; forming a single crystal silicon layer on a surface of the silicon substrate in the contact hole, wherein the single crystal silicon layer is formed by an epitaxial growth performed at a first reaction chamber of which pressure is maintained less than approximately 10−6 Torr; and filling the contact hole with polysilicon, wherein the polysilicon layer is formed at a second reaction chamber.
Abstract:
A phase change memory device including a multi-level cell and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The device includes a first phase-change material layer to which a current is provided from a heating electrode, and a second phase-change material layer formed with continuity to the first phase-change material layer and having a different width from the first phase-change material layer, and to which a current is provided from a heating electrode.
Abstract:
A phase change memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first conductive pattern formed on the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive pattern contacting an upper surface of the first conductive pattern and having a diameter less than a diameter of the first conductive pattern, and a phase change material layer contacting the second conductive pattern.
Abstract:
A phase change memory device and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes the steps of defining bottom electrode contact holes by removing portions of an insulation layer, to expose bottom electrodes, on a semiconductor substrate on which the bottom electrodes and the insulation layer are sequentially formed; forming amorphous silicon spacers on inner sidewalls of the bottom electrode contact holes; and forming bottom electrode contacts in the bottom electrode contact holes.
Abstract:
A capacitor with nanotubes and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The capacitor includes: a lower electrode including a patterned conductive layer and a plurality of nanotubes formed on the patterned conductive layer in the shape of whiskers without using a catalytic layer; a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode; and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer. The method includes the steps of: forming a conductive layer for forming a lower electrode; forming a nanotube array including a plurality of nanotubes formed on the conductive layer without using a catalytic layer; forming a dielectric layer on the nanotube array; and forming an upper electrode on the dielectric layer.
Abstract:
A phase-change memory device and a fabrication method thereof, capable of reducing driving current while minimizing a size of a contact hole used for forming a PN diode in the phase-change memory device that employs the PN diode. The method of fabricating the phase-change memory device includes the steps of preparing a semiconductor substrate having a junction area formed with a dielectric layer, forming an interlayer dielectric layer having etching selectivity lower than that of the dielectric layer over an entire structure, and forming a contact hole by removing predetermined portions of the interlayer dielectric layer and the dielectric layer. The contact area between the PN diode and the semiconductor substrate is increased so that interfacial resistance is reduced.