Embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The method includes: providing a substrate, a first trench being formed in the substrate; forming a protective layer in the first trench, the protective layer covering a side wall and a bottom of the first trench; etching the protective layer and the substrate at the bottom of the first trench to form second trenches; forming a passivation layer at a bottom of each of the second trenches; and etching a side wall of each of the second trenches to form a groove, and forming a dielectric layer in the groove. The method can eliminate a process of forming a bit line contact structure, thereby reducing resistance of a bit line and simplifying fabrication processes of the bit line.

Embodiments relate to a semiconductor device and a forming method. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a memory array positioned on the substrate and at least including memory cells spaced along a first direction, each of the memory cells including a transistor, the transistor including a gate electrode, channel regions distributed on two opposite sides of the gate electrode along a third direction, and a source region and a drain region distributed on two opposite sides of each of the channel regions along a second direction, the first direction and the third direction being directions parallel to a top surface of the substrate, the first direction intersecting with the third direction, and the second direction being a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate; and a word line extending along the first direction and continuously electrically connected to the gate electrodes spaced along the first direction.

A semiconductor structure, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, and a memory are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a source and a drain which are arranged in a substrate; a gate dielectric layer arranged in the substrate and covering a sidewall and a bottom portion of a trench defined between the source and the drain; a gate structure arranged in the trench, in which a material of the gate structure includes metal or metal compound; and a gate adjustment layer at least arranged between the gate dielectric layer and the gate structure. A sidewall of the gate structure is provided with a first control area covered with the gate adjustment layer, and a bottom surface of the gate structure is provided with a second control area not covered with the gate adjustment layer. A material of the gate adjustment layer includes polycrystalline silicon.

A 3D semiconductor device including: a first single crystal layer with first transistors; overlaid by a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer and being overlaid by a third metal layer; a logic gates including at least the first metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; second transistors disposed atop the third metal layer; third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a top metal layer disposed atop the third transistors; and a memory array including word-lines, and at least four memory mini arrays, where each of the memory mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or third transistors, sense amplifier circuit(s) for each of the memory mini arrays, the second metal layer provides a greater current carrying capacity than the third metal layer.

A semiconductor structure includes a base in which a first doped region is provided and an active pillar group arranged in the first doped region. The active pillar group includes four active pillars arranged in an array. At least one of the active pillars is provided with a notch, which faces at least one of a row centerline or a column centerline of the active pillar group.

A memory device and a method for forming the same are provided. A hard mask layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate; and then multiple parallel mask patterns extending in a third direction are formed on the semiconductor substrate by adopting self-aligned multi-patterning. Openings are arranged between the adjacent mask patterns. The surfaces of multiple drain regions and corresponding part of the isolation layer in the third direction are exposed by the openings.

A semiconductor device and a formation method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate, where a plurality of columnar active areas are formed on the semiconductor substrate, the plurality of columnar active areas are spaced apart by a plurality of first trenches extending along a first direction and a plurality of second trenches extending along a second direction; a plurality of third trenches positioned in the semiconductor substrate at bottoms of the second trenches, where the third trenches are recessed to bottoms of the columnar active areas, and a bottom surface of a given one of the third trenches is higher than a bottom surface of the given first trench; and a plurality of metal silicide bit lines extending along the first direction in the semiconductor substrate positioned at the bottoms of the plurality of third trenches and the bottoms of the plurality of columnar active areas.

A semiconductor structure, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, and a memory are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a plurality of first semiconductor pillars, a plurality of second semiconductor pillars, a first support layer, and a storage structure. The plurality of first semiconductor pillars are arranged in an array in a first direction and in a second direction. Each of the first direction and the second direction is perpendicular to an extending direction of each first semiconductor pillar, and the first direction intersects with the second direction. The first support layer covers sidewalls of top portions of the plurality of first semiconductor pillars. Each second semiconductor pillar is arranged on a respective one of the plurality of first semiconductor pillars. The storage structure is arranged around at least sidewalls of the plurality of first semiconductor pillars and sidewalls of the plurality of second semiconductor pillars.

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate; forming a bit line conductive layer on the substrate and a bit line inner capping layer on the bit line conductive layer to form a bit line structure; a bit line structure; forming a bit line spacer capping layer covering the bit line structure; forming a cell contact adjacent to the bit line structure; forming a blanket pad layer on the bit line spacer capping layer and the cell contact; forming a plurality of pad openings along the blanket pad layer and extending to the bit line spacer capping layer and the bit line inner capping layer to turn the blanket pad layer into a plurality of landing pads; and selectively forming a sealing layer to form a plurality of air gaps between the bit line conductive layer and the plurality of landing pads.

Embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure and a fabrication method thereof. The semiconductor structure has an array region and a peripheral region, and includes: a semiconductor substrate; a memory array structure positioned above the semiconductor substrate in the array region; a peripheral circuit structure positioned above the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral region; and a conductive connection structure positioned in the semiconductor substrate to electrically connect the memory array structure and the peripheral circuit structure. The semiconductor structure and the fabrication method thereof can effectively improve performance of a memory device.