US 12,218,046 B2
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
Eui Bok Lee, Seoul (KR); Donggon Yoo, Incheon (KR); and Wandon Kim, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/299,926.
Application 18/299,926 is a continuation of application No. 17/373,573, filed on Jul. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,664,310.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0177705 (KR), filed on Dec. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0253310 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H01L 23/522 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H01L 29/06 (2006.01); H01L 29/08 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 23/5226 (2013.01) [H01L 23/5283 (2013.01); H01L 29/0649 (2013.01); H01L 29/0847 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
transistors on a substrate;
a first interlayer insulating layer on the transistors;
a first lower interconnection line, a second lower interconnection line, and a third lower interconnection line that are provided in an upper portion of the first interlayer insulating layer;
a first dielectric layer being selectively on a top surface of the first interlayer insulating layer between the first and second lower interconnection lines;
a second dielectric layer being selectively on a top surface of the first interlayer insulating layer between the second and third lower interconnection lines;
an etch stop layer on the first, second and third lower interconnection lines and the first and second dielectric layers;
a second interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer; and
an upper interconnection line in the second interlayer insulating layer,
wherein the upper interconnection line includes
a first contact portion, a second contact portion and a third contact portion that are connected to the first, second and third lower interconnection lines, respectively, and
a first connecting portion between the first and second contact portions and a second connecting portion between the second and third contact portions, and
wherein a level of a bottom surface of the first connecting portion is different from a level of a bottom surface of the second connecting portion.