SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD USING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240404854A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-05

    申请号:US18633117

    申请日:2024-04-11

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to substrate processing apparatuses and substrate processing methods. An example substrate processing apparatus comprises an outer chamber that provides an internal space, a process tube in the outer chamber, a heater between the outer chamber and the process tube, and a boat inserted into the process tube. The boat includes a plurality of substrate support devices that are vertically stacked. Each substrate support device of the plurality of substrate support devices includes a support member that supports a substrate, a lower electrode below the support member, and an upper electrode above the support member and spaced apart from the support member.

    Image acquisition device and method of controlling the same

    公开(公告)号:US11810279B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-07

    申请号:US17728535

    申请日:2022-04-25

    Abstract: Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) system that mimics functions, such as recognition and determination by human brains, by utilizing a machine learning algorithm, such as deep learning, and applications of the AI system. An image acquisition device is disclosed including a camera configured to acquire a first image, wherein a portion of a main object is hidden from the camera by a sub-object; at least one processor configured to input the first image to a first AI neural network; detect, by the first AI neural network from data corresponding to a plurality of objects included in the first image, first data corresponding to the main object and second data corresponding to the sub-object from the first image by inputting the first image to an AI neural network, remove the sub-object from the first image, and generate, using a second AI neural network, a second image by restoring third data corresponding to at least a portion of the main object hidden by the removed sub-object by using the AI neural network, wherein the third data replaces the second data; and a display configured to display at least one of the first image and the second image.

    SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250142824A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-01

    申请号:US18794943

    申请日:2024-08-05

    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes gate electrodes on a substrate, the gate electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate; and a memory channel structure extending through the gate electrodes in the vertical direction on the substrate. The memory channel structure may include a filling pattern extending in the vertical direction; a channel structure on a sidewall of the filling pattern and an edge portion of an upper surface of the filling pattern; a capping pattern on a central portion of the upper surface of the filling pattern and an upper surface of the channel structure; and a charge storage structure on an outer sidewall of the channel structure and a sidewall of the capping pattern.

    Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a low-k dielectric material layer

    公开(公告)号:US11476419B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-18

    申请号:US16874781

    申请日:2020-05-15

    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first pattern structure having a first opening on a lower structure comprising a semiconductor substrate. The first pattern structure includes a stacked pattern and a first spacer layer covering at least a side surface of the stacked pattern. A first flowable material layer including a SiOCH material is formed on the first spacer layer to fill the first opening and cover an upper portion of the first pattern structure. A first curing process including supplying a gaseous ammonia catalyst into the first flowable material layer is performed on the first flowable material layer to form a first cured material layer that includes water. A second curing process is performed on the first cured material layer to form a first low-k dielectric material layer. The first low-k dielectric material layer is planarized to form a planarized first low-k dielectric material layer.

    Variable resistance memory device and method of fabricating the same

    公开(公告)号:US11411179B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-09

    申请号:US16933123

    申请日:2020-07-20

    Abstract: A method of fabricating a variable resistance memory device that includes forming a plurality of memory cells on a substrate. Each of the plurality of memory cells in a switching device and a variable resistance pattern. A capping structure is formed that commonly covers lateral side surfaces of the plurality of memory cells. An insulating gapfill layer is formed that covers the capping structure and fills a region between adjacent memory cells of the plurality of memory cells. The forming of the capping structure includes forming a second capping layer including silicon oxide that covers the lateral side surfaces of the plurality of memory cells. At least a partial portion of the second capping layer is nitrided by performing a first decoupled plasma process to form a third capping layer that includes silicon oxynitride.

    Semiconductor device and method of forming the same

    公开(公告)号:US11672130B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-06

    申请号:US17032571

    申请日:2020-09-25

    Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device including a first conductive line on a substrate, memory cell structures stacked on the first conductive line, a second conductive line between the memory cell structures; and a third conductive line on the memory cell structures may be provided. Each of the plurality of memory cell structures includes a data storage material pattern, a switching material pattern, and a plurality of electrode patterns, at least one of the electrode patterns includes at least one of carbon material layer or a carbon-containing material layer, and the at least one of the electrode patterns includes a first region doped with a nitrogen and a second region that is not doped with the nitrogen, or is doped with the nitrogen at a first concentration lower than a second concentration of the nitrogen in the first region.

    Apparatus for and method of fabricating semiconductor device

    公开(公告)号:US11600776B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-07

    申请号:US17033460

    申请日:2020-09-25

    Abstract: An apparatus of fabricating a semiconductor device may include a chamber including a housing and a slit valve used to open or close a portion of the housing, a heater chuck provided in a lower region of the housing and used to heat a substrate, a target provided over the heater chuck, a plasma electrode provided in an upper region of the housing and used to generate plasma on the target, a heat-dissipation shield surrounding the inner wall of the housing between the plasma electrode and the heater chuck, and an edge heating structure provided between the heat-dissipation shield and the inner wall of the housing and configured to heat the heat-dissipation shield and an edge region of the substrate and to reduce a difference in temperature between center and edge regions of the substrate.

    Method of fabricating semiconductor devices using a two-step gap-fill process

    公开(公告)号:US11063218B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-13

    申请号:US16746258

    申请日:2020-01-17

    Abstract: A method of fabricating a memory device includes forming word lines and cell stacks with gaps between the cell stacks, forming a lower gap-fill insulator in the gaps, forming an upper gap-fill insulator on the lower gap-fill insulator, curing the lower gap-fill insulator and the upper gap-fill insulator to form a gap-fill insulator, and forming bit lines on the cell stacks and the gap-fill insulator. The lower gap-fill process may be performed using a first source gas that includes first and second precursors, and the upper gap-fill process may be performed using a second source gas that includes the first and second precursors, a volume ratio of the first precursor to the second precursor in the first source gas may be greater than 15:1, and a volume ratio of the first precursor to the second precursor in the second source gas may be less than 15:1.

    Apparatus for and method of fabricating semiconductor devices

    公开(公告)号:US10818839B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16149507

    申请日:2018-10-02

    Abstract: An apparatus of fabricating a semiconductor device may include a chamber including a housing and a slit valve used to open or close a portion of the housing, a heater chuck provided in a lower region of the housing and used to heat a substrate, a target provided over the heater chuck, a plasma electrode provided in an upper region of the housing and used to generate plasma on the target, a heat-dissipation shield surrounding the inner wall of the housing between the plasma electrode and the heater chuck, and an edge heating structure provided between the heat-dissipation shield and the inner wall of the housing and configured to heat the heat-dissipation shield and an edge region of the substrate and to reduce a difference in temperature between center and edge regions of the substrate.

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