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Abstract
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a recess gate and a method of forming the same, and particularly, to prevent a bridge between recess gates occurring at an end of the recess gate structure in a cell region, thereby preventing the recess gate. The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a recess gate capable of increasing a process yield of a recess gate or a saddle fin transistor, and a method of forming the same.
A semiconductor device including a recess gate of the present invention and a method of forming the same include: forming an isolation layer defining an active region in a semiconductor substrate; Forming a dummy active region at an end of the cell region in the semiconductor substrate; And forming a gate structure on the semiconductor substrate, wherein an end portion of the gate structure is formed to be located in the dummy active region.
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The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a recess gate and a method of forming the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a recess gate formed in a structure in which a substrate is recessed a predetermined depth in a semiconductor substrate including an active region and an isolation layer.
The DRAM of the semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of unit cells composed of a capacitor and a transistor. Among them, a capacitor is used for temporarily storing data, and a transistor is used for transferring data between a bit line and a capacitor corresponding to a control signal (word line) by using the property of a semiconductor whose electrical conductivity changes according to an environment. A transistor consists of three regions: a gate, a source, and a drain. A charge is transferred between the source and the drain in accordance with a control signal input to the gate. The transfer of charge between the source and drain occurs through the channel region, which uses the nature of the semiconductor.
When a conventional transistor is formed on a semiconductor substrate, a gate is formed on a semiconductor substrate and doping is performed on both sides of the gate to form a source and a drain. In this case, between the source and the drain under the gate becomes the channel region of the transistor. A transistor having such a horizontal channel region occupies a semiconductor substrate of a certain area. In the case of a complicated semiconductor memory device, it is difficult to reduce the total area due to a plurality of transistors included in the semiconductor memory device.
By reducing the total area of the semiconductor memory device, the number of semiconductor memory devices that can be produced per wafer can be increased and productivity is improved. Various methods have been proposed to reduce the total area of the semiconductor memory device. A recess in which a channel is formed along a curved surface of the recess by forming a recess in the substrate and forming a gate in the recess in place of a conventional planar gate, in which one of them has a horizontal channel region. Is to use a gate.
1 is a plan view illustrating a semiconductor device including a conventional recess gate. Referring to FIG. 1, a plurality of
The semiconductor substrate shown in FIG. 1 indicates a right end portion in a cell region, and a peripheral region may be formed on the right side of the semiconductor substrate shown in FIG. 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, the
Referring to FIG. 2, which is a cross-sectional view along the AA ′ line in FIG. 1, that is, a cross section of the semiconductor substrate at the end side of the
In FIG. 2, the
This is because in the process of etching the recess in which the
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. In the semiconductor substrate, a dummy active region is formed at the end of the cell region, and the end of the recess gate structure is positioned in the dummy active region, thereby providing Recesses that can prevent the recess gate-to-recess bridges occurring at the end of the recess gate structure in the recess gate, thereby increasing the process yield of the recess gate or saddle fin transistor An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device including a gate and a method of forming the same.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the steps of forming an isolation layer defining an active region on the semiconductor substrate; Forming a dummy active region at an end of the cell region in the semiconductor substrate; And forming a gate structure in the semiconductor substrate, wherein an end of the gate structure is formed to be located in the dummy active region, so that an inter-recess gate bridge is formed at an end of the recess gate structure in a cell region. The phenomenon can be prevented.
Further, the device isolation film may include an oxide film, and the dummy active region may include silicon to prevent excessive etching of the device isolation film including an oxide film having a high etching selectivity.
In addition, the dummy active region may provide an advantageous effect in terms of forming a layout of the active region when the dummy active region is formed only at a position corresponding to a part of the end of the gate structure.
And forming the gate structure, forming a recess in the semiconductor substrate; Forming a gate conductive layer in the recess; Forming a barrier metal layer on the gate conductive layer; Forming a gate hard mask layer on the barrier metal layer; And etching the stacked structure including the gate conductive layer, the barrier metal layer, and the gate hard mask.
Furthermore, after etching the stacked structure including the gate conductive layer, the barrier metal layer, and the gate hard mask, the method may further include forming a gate spacer on the side of the gate structure, thereby protecting the side of the gate structure. do.
On the other hand, the semiconductor device including a recess gate according to the present invention, an isolation layer formed on the substrate to define an active region; A dummy active region formed at an end of a cell region in the semiconductor substrate; And a gate structure formed on the semiconductor substrate and having an end portion positioned in the dummy active region, to prevent a bridge between recess gates occurring at an end portion of the recess gate structure in the cell region. It is characterized by.
Further, the device isolation film may include an oxide film, and the dummy active region may include silicon to prevent excessive etching of the device isolation film including an oxide film having a high etching selectivity.
In addition, the dummy active region may be formed only at a position corresponding to a part of the end of the gate structure, thereby providing an advantageous effect in terms of forming a layout of the active region.
Further, the gate structure may include a gate conductive layer formed in a recess formed in the semiconductor substrate; A barrier metal layer formed on the gate conductive layer; The gate hard mask layer may be formed on the barrier metal layer. The gate hard mask layer may further include a gate spacer formed on side surfaces of the gate conductive layer, the barrier metal layer, and the gate hard mask layer.
The semiconductor device including the recess gate of the present invention and a method of forming the same may prevent a bridge between recess gates occurring at the end of the recess gate structure in the cell region, thereby preventing the recess gate. Alternatively, it provides an effect of increasing the process yield of the saddle fin transistor.
Hereinafter, an exemplary embodiment of a semiconductor device including a recess gate and a method of forming the same will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
3 is a plan view illustrating a semiconductor device including a recess gate according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, a plurality of
The semiconductor substrate illustrated in FIG. 3 represents a right end portion in a cell region, and a peripheral region may be formed on the right side of the semiconductor substrate illustrated in FIG. 3.
In the semiconductor device according to the present invention, a plurality of
When the
Meanwhile, in FIG. 3, the dummy
And in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the ends of the gate structures 30 (the first, second, fifth and sixth gate structures from above in FIG. 3) of the portion where the
Next, referring to FIG. 4, which is a cross-sectional view along the line BB 'of FIG. 3, the
In addition, although not separately illustrated in the drawings of the present invention, when the transistor of the semiconductor device is formed in a 'saddle fin' structure, the present invention may effectively prevent the bridge between gates.
The saddle fin transistor has a cross section in the longitudinal direction (vertical direction in FIGS. 1 and 3) of the active region, in which the gate region is etched downward from the substrate surface in the same manner as the recess gate, and in the longitudinal direction of the active region. In the vertical direction (the horizontal direction in FIGS. 1 and 3), the
Since the saddle fin transistor includes a process of etching an oxide film (element isolation layer) in addition to the process of etching the silicon substrate when the
That is, the semiconductor device and the recess gate forming method according to the present invention can provide an effect of preventing the gate-to-gate bridge even when applied to not only the recess gate structure but also the saddle fin transistor structure.
As described above, the method for forming a recess gate of a semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises forming a dummy active region at an end portion of a cell region in a semiconductor substrate and having an end portion of the recess gate structure at this dummy active region. It is possible to prevent the inter-recess gate bridge phenomenon occurring at the end of the recess gate structure in the cell region, thereby increasing the process yield of the recess gate or saddle fin transistor. Can provide a beneficial effect.
The present invention is not limited to the described embodiments, and various modifications and changes can be made to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Such modifications or modifications may be made to the present invention. It belongs to the scope of claims.
1 is a plan view showing a semiconductor device including a conventional recess gate;
2 is a cross-sectional view along the line AA ′ in FIG. 1;
3 is a plan view showing a semiconductor device including a recess gate according to the present invention; And,
4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB ′ in FIG. 3.
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