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US 12,501,681 · App. 18/414,469 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same

Inventors: Te-Chang Hsu (Tainan, TW); Chun-Chia Chen (Tainan, TW); Yao-Jhan Wang (Tainan, TW)
Assignee: Marlin Semiconductor Limited
H10D64/017H01L21/02326H01L21/02337H01L21/02348H01L21/31053H01L21/3115H01L21/76826H01L21/76828H01L21/76834H10D30/0223H10D30/024H10D64/021H01L21/76825H10D30/62H10D30/6219H10D64/667H10D64/691
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Patent No.
US 12,501,681
App. No.
18/414,469
Granted
Dec 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a substrate, an offset spacer adjacent to the gate structure, a main spacer around the offset spacer, a source/drain region adjacent to two sides of the main spacer, a contact etch stop layer (CESL) adjacent to the main spacer, and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the CESL. Preferably, a dielectric constant of the offset spacer is higher than a dielectric constant of the main spacer.

Claims (9)

1 . A semiconductor device, comprising:

a gate structure on a substrate;

a spacer around the gate structure;

a contact etch stop layer (CESL) adjacent to the spacer; and

an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer around the CESL, wherein the CESL and the ILD layer comprise different material and a same dielectric constant.

2 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the oxygen concentration on a surface of the CESL is greater than the oxygen concentration in the CESL.

3 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the spacer comprises an offset spacer and a main spacer.

4 . The semiconductor device of claim 3 , wherein the main spacer, the CESL and the ILD layer comprise a same dielectric constant.

5 . The semiconductor device of claim 3 , wherein the main spacer and the CESL comprise a same material.

Priority Claims (1)
CN 201710865297.1 · Sep 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 17744722 · May 15, 2022
Continuation 16836872 · Mar 31, 2020
Continuation 16239470 · Jan 3, 2019
Division 15790043 · Oct 22, 2017
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