A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure including conductive layers and insulating layers stacked alternately with each other, a channel layer passing through the stacked structure, a ferroelectric layer surrounding a sidewall of the channel layer, a first dielectric layer surrounding a sidewall of the ferroelectric layer, and sacrificial patterns interposed between the first dielectric layer and the insulating layers and including a material with a higher dielectric constant than the first dielectric layer.

The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked gate structure positioned on the substrate; first spacers attached on two sides of the stacked gate structure; and second spacers attached on two sides of the first spacers; wherein the first spacers comprise graphene.

A semiconductor device includes a first electrode; a first semiconductor region provided on the first electrode; a second semiconductor region provided on the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region provided on the second semiconductor region; a second electrode provided on the third semiconductor region and electrically connected to the third semiconductor region; a third electrode aligned with the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region; a gate electrode provided between the third electrode and the second semiconductor region; a first insulating portion including a first insulating region provided between the third electrode and the first semiconductor region and facing the third electrode, a second insulating region facing the first semiconductor region, and at least one air-gap region located between the first insulating region and the second insulating region; and a second insulating portion provided between the gate electrode and the second semiconductor region.

A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure including conductive layers and insulating layers stacked alternately with each other, a channel layer passing through the stacked structure, a ferroelectric layer surrounding a sidewall of the channel layer, a first dielectric layer surrounding a sidewall of the ferroelectric layer, and sacrificial patterns interposed between the first dielectric layer and the insulating layers and including a material with a higher dielectric constant than the first dielectric layer.

One illustrative IC product disclosed herein includes a transistor device formed on a semiconductor substrate, the transistor device comprising a gate structure comprising an upper surface, a polish-stop sidewall spacer positioned adjacent the gate structure, wherein, at a location above an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, when viewed in a cross-section taken through the first polish-stop sidewall spacer in a direction corresponding to a gate length direction of the transistor, an upper surface of the gate structure is substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the polish-stop sidewall spacer.

A method for manufacturing a flash memory device is provided. The method includes: providing a substrate structure including a substrate, a plurality of active regions and a plurality of first isolation regions alternately arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of gate structures on the substrate, the gate structures being spaced apart from each other and extending in the second direction, and a gap structure between the gate structures; forming an overhang surrounding an upper portion of the gate structures to form a gap structure between the gate structures; and forming a second isolation region filling an upper portion of the gap structures and leaving a first air gap between the gap structures.

A method for forming airgaps within an integrated electronic circuit implements a conformal layer and a nanosheet both of boron nitride. The method has advantages for the circuit due to special properties of boron nitride material. In particular, mechanical strength and heat dissipation are increased whereas electro-migration is limited. The method may be applied to the first interconnect layer of the integrated circuit, for reducing additionally capacitive interactions existing between gate electrode structures and source or drain contact structures.

A method is presented for employing contact over active gate to reduce parasitic capacitance. The method includes forming high-k metal gates (HKMGs) between stacked spacers, the stacked spacers including a low-k dielectric lower portion and a sacrificial upper portion, forming a first dielectric over the HKMGs, forming first contacts to source/drain of a transistor between the HKMGs, and forming a second dielectric over the first contacts. The method further includes selectively removing the first dielectric to form second contacts to the HKMGs, selectively removing the second dielectric to form third contacts on top of the first contacts, removing the sacrificial upper portion of the stacked spacers, and depositing a third dielectric that pinches off the remaining first and second dielectrics to form air-gaps between the first contacts and the HKMGs.

A non-volatile memory structure including a substrate, a plurality of charge storage layers, a first dielectric layer, and a control gate is provided. The charge storage layers are located on the substrate. An opening is provided between two adjacent charge storage layers. The first dielectric layer is located on the charge storage layers and on a surface of the opening. A bottom cross-sectional profile of the first dielectric layer located in the opening is a profile that is recessed on both sides. The control gate is located on the first dielectric layer and fills the opening.

Disclosed is a semiconductor device for improving a gate induced drain leakage and a method for fabricating the same, and the method may include forming a trench in a substrate, lining a surface of the trench with an initial gate dielectric layer, forming a gate electrode to partially fill the lined trench, forming a sacrificial material spaced apart from a top surface of the gate electrode and to selectively cover a top corner of the lined trench, removing a part of the initial gate dielectric layer of the lined trench which is exposed by the sacrificial material in order to form an air gap, and forming a capping layer to cap a side surface of the air gap, over the gate electrode.