IP Library Granted Patent US 12,550,319
Granted Patent B2
US 12,550,319 · App. 18/420,759 · Granted Feb 10, 2026

Semiconductor device with landing pad and differentiated interconnects

Inventor: Se Han Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
H10B12/50G11C11/4085G11C11/4097H01L23/5226H10B12/09H10B12/30H10B12/0335H10B12/482
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Patent No.
US 12,550,319
App. No.
18/420,759
Granted
Feb 10, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, the peripheral circuit region including a first peripheral circuit region including a first transistor and a second peripheral circuit region including a second transistor; a storage node contact plug positioned in an upper portion of the substrate in the memory cell region; a landing pad over the storage node contact plug; a first metal wire coupled to the first transistor; and a second metal wire coupled to the second transistor, wherein a thickness of the landing pad and a thickness of the first metal wire are smaller than a thickness of the second metal wire.

Claims (18)

1 . A semiconductor device, comprising:

a first transistor including a first gate structure and first source/drain regions aligned on both sides of the first gate structure;

a second transistor including a second gate structure and second source/drain regions aligned on both sides of the second gate structure;

a first metal contact plug coupled to the first source/drain regions by penetrating an interlayer insulating layer;

a second metal contact plug coupled to the second source/drain regions by penetrating the interlayer insulating layer;

a first metal wire positioned over the first metal contact plug and the interlayer insulating layer; and

a second metal wire positioned over the second metal contact plug and the interlayer insulating layer,

wherein a thickness of the first metal wire is less than a thickness of the second metal wire, and

wherein a bottommost surface of the first metal wire and a bottommost surface of the second metal wire are positioned at the same level, and an upper surface of the first metal wire is lower than an upper surface of the second metal wire.

2 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the first metal wire and the second metal wire include the same metal material.

3 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the first metal wire and the second metal wire include tungsten (W).

4 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the first transistor further includes a first capping layer, and

the second transistor further includes a second capping layer, wherein

the first capping layer covers sidewalls of the first metal wire, and an upper surface of the first capping layer and an upper surface of the first metal wire are positioned at the same level, and

wherein the second capping layer covers sidewalls and an upper portion of the second metal wire.

5 . The semiconductor device of claim 4 , wherein the first capping layer and the second capping layer include the same material.

6 . The semiconductor device of claim 4 , wherein the first capping layer and the second capping layer include silicon nitride.

7 . The semiconductor device of claim 1 , wherein the first transistor includes a sense amplifier (SA), and the second transistor includes a sub-word line driver (SWD).

Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2020-0081843 · Jul 3, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17078736 · Oct 23, 2020
Related Publication 20240172427A1 · May 23, 2024
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