US 12,310,079 B2
Semiconductor devices including gate spacer
Bongseok Suh, Seoul (KR); Daewon Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Beomjin Park, Hwaseong-si (KR); Sukhyung Park, Seoul (KR); Sungil Park, Suwon-si (KR); Jaehoon Shin, Suwon-si (KR); Bongseob Yang, Suwon-si (KR); Junggun You, Ansan-si (KR); and Jaeyun Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/483,413.
Application 18/483,413 is a continuation of application No. 17/060,193, filed on Oct. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,810,964.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0042140 (KR), filed on Apr. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0038873 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H10D 64/01 (2025.01); H10D 30/00 (2025.01); H10D 30/01 (2025.01); H10D 30/67 (2025.01); H10D 62/17 (2025.01); H10D 64/27 (2025.01); H10D 84/01 (2025.01); H10D 84/03 (2025.01); H01L 21/28 (2025.01)
CPC H10D 64/021 (2025.01) [H10D 30/6757 (2025.01); H10D 62/235 (2025.01); H10D 64/018 (2025.01); H10D 64/518 (2025.01); H01L 21/28141 (2013.01); H10D 30/0293 (2025.01); H10D 30/204 (2025.01); H10D 62/292 (2025.01); H10D 84/0147 (2025.01); H10D 84/038 (2025.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
a first active region defined on a substrate and including a plurality of channel regions;
a first gate electrode across the first active region and surrounding a top surface, a side surface, and a bottom surface of at least one of the plurality of channel regions;
a first gate dielectric layer between the first active region and the first gate electrode;
a first drain region in the first active region at a position adjacent to the first gate electrode and in contact with each of the plurality of channel regions;
a first gate spacer on a side surface of the first gate electrode;
a second active region defined in a second region on the substrate;
a second gate electrode across the second active region and having a larger horizontal width than the first gate electrode;
a second drain region in the second active region at a position adjacent to the second gate electrode;
an undercut region between the second active region and a metal portion of the second gate electrode; and
a second gate spacer on a side surface of the second gate electrode and protruding into the undercut region; and
a lower gate dielectric layer between the second active region and the second gate electrode and having a smaller horizontal width than the second gate electrode.