US 12,191,364 B2
Semiconductor device with buried gate structure
Dong Soo Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Tae Kyun Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/689,762.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0103235 (KR), filed on Aug. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0038881 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H01L 29/423 (2006.01); H10B 12/00 (2023.01)
CPC H01L 29/4236 (2013.01) [H10B 12/0335 (2023.02); H10B 12/053 (2023.02); H10B 12/34 (2023.02)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
a substrate;
a first fluorine-containing layer over the substrate;
a trench formed in the first fluorine-containing layer and extended into the substrate;
a gate dielectric layer formed over the trench;
a gate electrode formed over the gate dielectric layer and filling a portion of the trench;
a second fluorine-containing layer formed over to directly contact the gate electrode; and
a fluorine-containing passivation layer between the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode,
wherein a bottom surface of the first fluorine-containing layer covers a top surface of the gate dielectric layer and a top surface of the fluorine-containing passivation layer.