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Granted Patent B2
US 10,600,789 · App. 16/233,715 · Granted Mar 24, 2020

Micro-pattern forming method, capacitor and method of manufacturing the same, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same, and electronic system including semiconductor device

Inventors: Soon-mok Ha (Hwaseong-si, KR); Jae-hee Kim (Yongin-si, KR); Chan Hwang (Seoul, KR); Jong-hyuk Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H01L27/10855H01L21/0273H01L21/31144H01L27/10817H01L28/91H01L21/31127H01L28/87
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Patent No.
US 10,600,789
App. No.
16/233,715
Granted
Mar 24, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of forming a micro-pattern including forming a mold layer and a supporting material layer on a substrate, patterning the mold layer and the supporting material layer to form recess patterns, forming conductor patterns in the recess patterns, removing a portion of an upper portion of the supporting material layer for causing upper portions of the conductor patterns to protrude, forming a block copolymer layer on the supporting material layer, processing the block copolymer layer to phase-separate the block copolymer layer into a plurality of block parts, selectively removing some of the phase-separated plurality of block parts, and removing the supporting material layer to expose the mold layer at a position corresponding to each of the removed block parts may be provided.

Claims (39)

1. A semiconductor device comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of bottom electrodes passing through a supporting layer on the substrate;

a dielectric layer-on each of the plurality of bottom electrodes;

a top electrode on the dielectric layer,

wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes are respectively at positions of vertexes of a triangle, and

the supporting layer includes a through-hole at a position corresponding to a centroid of the triangle.

2. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes do not contact the through-hole.

3. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of bottom electrodes has an aspect ratio of 10 to 40.

4. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between a center of the through-hole and a center of one of the plurality of bottom electrodes is 10 nm to 50 nm.

5. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between two closest ones of the plurality of bottom electrodes is 12 nm to 32 nm.

6. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the through-hole is between two closest ones of the plurality of bottom electrodes.

7. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a horizontal cross-section of the through-hole has a substantially circular shape or a substantially elliptical shape.

8. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a distance between a lower surface of the supporting layer and a lower end of a corresponding one of the plurality of bottom electrodes is 20% to 99% of a total height of the corresponding one of the plurality of bottom electrodes.

9. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein upper portions of the plurality of bottom electrodes protrudes above an upper surface of the supporting layer.

10. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes area pillar type or a cylinder type with an upper end opened.

11. The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein a capacitor is comprised of the top electrode, the dielectric layer and one of the plurality of bottom electrodes.

12. A semiconductor device comprising:

a plurality of transistors on a semiconductor substrate, each of the plurality of transistors including a gate structure and an impurity region;

a first interlayer insulation layer on the transistor;

a plurality of contact plugs, each of the plurality of contact plugs penetrating the first interlayer insulation layer and electrically connected to corresponding impurity region;

a plurality of bottom electrodes passing through a supporting layer on the first interlayer insulation layer, each of the plurality of bottom electrodes electrically connected to corresponding contact plug;

a dielectric layer-on each of the plurality of bottom electrodes; and

a top electrode on the dielectric layer,

wherein the supporting layer includes a through-hole at a position corresponding to a centroid of a triangle formed by three closest bottom electrodes.

13. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein the triangle is an equilateral triangle.

14. The semiconductor device of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes are arranged at vertexes of continuous equilateral triangles.

15. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein each of the plurality of bottom electrodes has an aspect ratio of 10 to 40.

16. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes do not contact the through-hole.

17. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein upper portions of the plurality of bottom electrodes protrudes above an upper surface of the supporting layer.

18. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein six closest ones of the through-holes are respectively disposed in vertexes of a regular hexagon.

19. The semiconductor device of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of bottom electrodes are a pillar type or a cylinder type with an upper end opened.

20. An electronic system comprising:

a controller;

an input/output unit configured to input or output data;

a memory configured to store data;

an interface configured to transmit data to an external device; and

a bus configured to connect the controller, the input/output unit, the memory, and the interface to communicate with each other,

wherein at least one of the controller and the memory comprises the semiconductor device of claim 12 .

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2016-0173622 · Dec 19, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 15826944 · Nov 30, 2017
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