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Granted Patent B2
US 10,170,566 · App. 15/673,032 · Granted Jan 1, 2019

Semiconductor device having air gap and method for manufacturing the same, memory cell having the same and electronic device having the same

Inventor: Seung-Hwan Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.
H01L29/407H01L21/764H01L29/0649H01L29/1083H01L29/4236H01L29/66666H01L29/7827H01L27/10876H01L27/10885
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Patent No.
US 10,170,566
App. No.
15/673,032
Granted
Jan 1, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate including a plurality of active regions and a device isolation region for isolating the plurality of active regions; and a buried bit line and a buried gate electrode which are formed in the semiconductor substrate. The device isolation region includes a first device isolation region extending in a first direction and a second device isolation region extending in a second direction crossing with the first direction and having a shield pillar formed therein.

Claims (22)

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of active regions and a device isolation region for isolating the plurality of active regions from each other;

a buried bit line and a buried gate electrode which are formed in the semiconductor substrate;

a gate trench having a bottom surface, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface, wherein the buried gate electrode is embedded in the gate trench,

wherein the device isolation region includes a first device isolation region extending in a first direction and a second device isolation region extending in a second direction crossing with the first direction and having a conductive shield pillar,

wherein the conductive shield pillar has a height that overlaps a portion of the buried gate electrode and the buried bit line,

wherein a top surface of the conductive shield pillar being at a higher level than a bottom surface of the buried gate electrode, and

wherein a bottom surface of the conductive shield pillar being at lower level than a bottom surface of the buried bit line.

2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the gate trench comprises:

a first trench extending in the second direction, and

a second trench and a third trench each extending from the first trench and extending in the first direction.

3. The semiconductor device according to claim 2 , wherein the buried gate electrode comprises:

a first electrode buried in the first trench of the gate trench;

a second electrode buried in the second trench of the gate trench; and

a third electrode buried in the third trench of the gate trench.

4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , further comprising a bit line trench extending in a third direction crossing with the first and second directions,

wherein the buried bit line is embedded in the bit line trench.

5. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the active region comprises a body and a pillar vertically extending over the body,

wherein the pillar comprises:

a first junction region electrically coupled to the buried bit line;

a second junction region vertically positioned from the first junction region; and

a channel region positioned between the first junction region and the second junction region, and overlapping with the buried gate electrode.

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2015-0055446 · Apr 20, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 14858732 · Sep 18, 2015
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