US 12,009,404 B2
Semiconductor devices
Seungseok Ha, Hwaseong-si (KR); Gukil An, Goyang-si (KR); Keun Hwi Cho, Seoul (KR); and Sungmin Kim, Incheon (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/686,504.
Application 17/686,504 is a continuation of application No. 16/418,705, filed on May 21, 2019, granted, now 11,296,204.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0078290 (KR), filed on Jul. 5, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0000811 (KR), filed on Jan. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0190136 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. H01L 29/51 (2006.01); H01L 29/423 (2006.01); H01L 29/49 (2006.01); H01L 29/786 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 29/516 (2013.01) [H01L 29/42364 (2013.01); H01L 29/42392 (2013.01); H01L 29/4966 (2013.01); H01L 29/78696 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate including an active pattern;
a device isolation layer on the substrate and in a trench that defines the active pattern;
a plurality of semiconductor patterns that are stacked on the active pattern and are spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction;
a plurality of ferroelectric patterns on the plurality of semiconductor patterns, respectively; and
a gate electrode on the plurality of ferroelectric patterns,
wherein, in a cross-sectional view taken along a longitudinal direction of the gate electrode:
the plurality of ferroelectric patterns are spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction,
each of the plurality of ferroelectric patterns is between the gate electrode and a respective one of the plurality of semiconductor patterns,
each of the plurality of ferroelectric patterns surrounds a respective one of the plurality of semiconductor patterns,
the gate electrode includes a work function metal pattern and an electrode pattern,
the work function metal pattern is in a space between adjacent ones of the plurality of ferroelectric patterns, and
the space between the adjacent ones of the plurality of ferroelectric patterns is free of the electrode pattern.