US 11,877,443 B2
Semiconductor device including a single crystal contact
Jin Won Ma, Hwaseong-si (KR); Ja Min Koo, Hwaseong-si (KR); Dae Young Moon, Seoul (KR); Kyu Wan Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Bong Hyun Kim, Incheon (KR); and Young Seok Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,451.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0094161 (KR), filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0037335 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H10B 12/00 (2023.01)
CPC H10B 12/485 (2023.02) [H10B 12/37 (2023.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate including an element separation film and an active region defined by the element separation film;
an insulating pattern on the substrate;
a bit line structure on the substrate;
a trench in the element separation film and the active region, the trench on at least one side of the bit line structure and including a first portion in the element separation film and a second portion in the active region, a bottom face of the first portion placed above a bottom face of the second portion;
a single crystal storage contact including a first contact portion filling the first portion of the trench and a second contact portion filing the second portion of the trench, without a void; and
an information storage element electrically connected to the single crystal storage contact,
wherein the bit line structure includes a first bit line structure on the active region and across the single crystal storage contact, and a second bit line structure on the insulating pattern,
wherein a top face of the second contact portion is in contact with a bottom face of the insulating pattern,
wherein the bit line structure includes at least one of conductive film, and
wherein the single crystal storage contact entirely fills a part of the trench, the part of the trench overlapping the at least one of conductive film of the bit line structure in a direction parallel to an upper face of the substrate.