US 11,670,638 B2
Semiconductor devices
Yang Xu, Suwon-si (KR); Hyunkwan Yu, Suwon-si (KR); Namkyu Cho, Seongnam-si (KR); Dongmyoung Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Kanghun Moon, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sanggil Lee, Ansan-si (KR); and Sihyung Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/348,962.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0132052 (KR), filed on Oct. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0115375 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 27/092 (2006.01); H01L 29/78 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 27/0924 (2013.01) [H01L 29/7851 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate;
a plurality of active fins on an active region of the substrate, the plurality of active fins extending in a first direction, spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and having upper surfaces of different respective heights;
a gate structure extending in the second direction and traversing the plurality of active fins;
a device isolation film on an upper surface of the active region and side surfaces of the plurality of active fins;
a source/drain region on the plurality of active fins, on at least one side of the gate structure, and including an epitaxial layer on the plurality of active fins;
an insulating spacer on an upper surface of the device isolation film and having a lateral asymmetry with respect to a center line of the source/drain region in a cross section taken along the second direction;
an interlayer insulating region on the device isolation film and on the gate structure and the source/drain region; and
a contact structure in the interlayer insulating region and electrically connected to the source/drain region,
wherein the plurality of active fins include a first active fin and a second active fin,
wherein the first active fin has an upper surface higher than an upper surface of the second active fin, and
wherein the insulating spacer is on a first portion of the upper surface of the device isolation film, adjacent to the first active fin, and is not on a second portion of the upper surface of the device isolation film, adjacent to an outer side of the second active fin.