A memory structure including a substrate, a bit line structure, a contact structure, a stop layer, and a capacitor structure is provided. The substrate includes a memory array region. The bit line structure is located in the memory array region and located on the substrate. The contact structure is located in the memory array region and located on the substrate on one side of the bit line structure. The stop layer is located in the memory array region and located above the bit line structure. The capacitor structure is located in the memory array region. The capacitor structure passes through the stop layer and is electrically connected to the contact structure. A bottom surface of the capacitor structure is lower than a bottom surface of the stop layer.

A capacitor includes a lower electrode layer including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer including SnO.sub.2 doped with an impurity; a dielectric layer on the second conductive layer, the dielectric layer including a rutile-phase oxide; and an upper electrode layer on the dielectric layer.

Embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a first isolation trench in the substrate; filling a first isolation dielectric layer in the first isolation trench; forming a second isolation trench; forming a second isolation dielectric layer in the second isolation trench; forming word line structures arranged at intervals, where the word line structures extend along the second direction to wrap the channel regions of the active pillars in a same row; etching back the second isolation dielectric layer and the first isolation dielectric layer to expose second connection terminals of the active pillars; and forming a protective layer configured to define positions of the word line structures and wrap the second connection terminals of the active pillars.

A semiconductor device may include a cell capacitor including first lower electrodes, a first upper support layer pattern, a first dielectric layer, and a first upper electrode. The decoupling capacitor may include second lower electrodes, a second upper support layer pattern, a second dielectric layer, and a second upper electrode. The first and second lower electrodes may be arranged in a honeycomb pattern at each vertex of a hexagon and a center of the hexagon. The first upper support layer pattern may be connected to upper sidewalls of the first lower electrodes. The first upper support layer pattern may correspond to a first plate defining first openings. The second upper support layer pattern may be connected to upper sidewalls of the second electrodes. The second upper support layer pattern may correspond to a second plate defining second openings having a shape different from a shape of the first opening.

A semiconductor device may include lower electrodes on a substrate, a first upper support layer pattern on upper sidewalls of the lower electrodes, and a dielectric layer and an upper electrode on surfaces of the lower electrodes and the first upper support layer pattern. The lower electrodes may be in a honeycomb pattern with the lower electrodes are at vertexes and center of a hexagon. The first upper support layer pattern may be a first plate shape including openings exposing some of all the lower electrodes. The lower electrodes may form rows in a first direction, the rows arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each opening may expose portions of upper sidewalls of at least four lower electrodes in two adjacent rows. Each of the openings may have a longitudinal direction in the first direction. In semiconductor devices, defects from bending stresses may be decreased.

A semiconductor device includes lower electrodes, a first supporter structure including first supporter patterns interconnecting the lower electrodes, wherein side surfaces of the first supporter patterns and side surfaces of the lower electrodes that are exposed by the first supporter patterns at least partially define a first open region, the first supporter patterns being spaced apart from one another, the first open region extending among the first supporter patterns in a horizontal direction, a dielectric layer covering the first supporter structure and the lower electrodes, and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer. A distance between adjacent ones of the first supporter patterns is smaller than or equal to a pitch of the lower electrodes.

An integrated circuit semiconductor device includes a plurality of cylindrical structures separated from each other on a substrate; and a plurality of supporters having an opening region exposing side surfaces of the plurality of cylindrical structures, the plurality of supporters being in contact with the side surfaces of the plurality of cylindrical structures and supporting the plurality of cylindrical structures, wherein each of the plurality of supporters has both side surfaces having slopes and has a top width that is less than a bottom width.

The embodiment of the application provides a semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes: a substrate structure is provided, in which the substrate structure at least including bit line structures and a plurality of landing pads, each of the plurality of landing pads is formed around a respective one of the bit line structures and covers a part of the respective one of the bit line structures, and a gap is formed between each two adjacent landing pads of the plurality of landing pads; and capacitive structures are formed on top surfaces of the plurality of landing pads and in the gaps.

A semiconductor device includes a conductive line that extends in a first direction on a substrate, a first oxide semiconductor layer, including a first crystalline oxide semiconductor material containing a first metal element, on the conductive line, a second oxide semiconductor layer, which is in physical contact with the first oxide semiconductor layer and is connected to the conductive line, on the conductive line, a gate electrode that extends in a second direction, which crosses the first direction, on a side of the second oxide semiconductor layer, and a capacitor structure connected to the second oxide semiconductor layer on the second oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, wherein the second oxide semiconductor layer includes a second crystalline oxide semiconductor material containing the first metal element and second and third metal elements, which are different from the first metal element.

A method for forming a capacitor via includes: providing a to-be-processed wafer, the to-be-processed wafer including a substrate and a first dielectric layer and a first mask layer that are sequentially formed on a surface of the substrate; etching the first mask layer according to a compensated first etching parameter, to form a first patterned layer extending in a first etching direction; sequentially forming a second dielectric layer and a second mask layer on a surface of the first patterned layer; etching the second mask layer and the second dielectric layer according to a compensated second etching parameter, to form a second patterned layer extending in a second etching direction; and etching the first dielectric layer with the first patterned layer and the second patterned layer together as a capacitor pattern, to form a capacitor via.