A semiconductor device includes an active pattern extending on a substrate in a first direction, channel patterns vertically stacked on the active pattern, a separation structure extending in a second direction and separating each of the active pattern and the channel patterns into first and second portions, a gate structure extending in the second direction and onto the first portions of the channel patterns, a separation pattern extending in the first direction, separating the first portions of the channel patterns into first and second channel patterns, and separating the gate structure into first and second gate structures, and a third gate structure extending in the second direction and onto the second portions of the channel patterns. The second portions of the channel patterns have a width greater than a sum of first and second widths of the first and second channel patterns, respectively.

A semiconductor device includes: active regions extending in a first direction on a substrate; a device isolation layer; gate structures intersecting the active regions and extending in a second direction; a plurality of channel layers on the active regions spaced apart from each other in a third direction and surrounded by the gate structures; first and second source/drain regions spaced apart from each other, the source/drain regions being connected to the plurality of channel layers and in recess regions on both sides of the gate structures; sidewall spacer layers on side surfaces of the source/drain regions; and a backside contact plug penetrating one of the active regions, and contacting a lower surface of the first source/drain region, wherein the active regions include a step region, and wherein the first active region extends onto side surfaces of at least an upper region of the backside contact plug in the second direction.

A semiconductor device may include a first fin pattern, a first source/drain pattern on the first fin pattern, a second fin pattern spaced apart in a first direction from the first fin pattern, a second source/drain pattern on the second fin pattern, a first gate electrode overlapping the first fin pattern and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second gate electrode overlapping the second fin pattern and extending in the second direction, and a first dummy structure between the first fin pattern and the second fin pattern and between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. The first dummy structure may include first to third line parts extending in the second direction, first and second connection parts connecting the first and second line parts to each other, and a third connection part connecting the second and third line parts to each other.

A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a first source/drain pattern and a second source/drain pattern spaced apart in a first direction on the substrate, a height from an upper surface of a central portion of the first source/drain pattern to an upper surface of the substrate in a vertical direction is lower than a height from an upper surface of an edge of the first source/drain pattern to the upper surface of the substrate, a plurality of channel patterns connecting between the first source/drain pattern and the second source/drain pattern, and the plurality of channel patterns stacked to be spaced apart from each other, a gate structure surrounding the plurality of channel patterns and extending in a second direction, and a contact plug extending in the vertical direction from an upper surface of the first source/drain pattern, and the contact plug connected to the first source/drain pattern.

A semiconductor device includes a power transmission network layer on a first surface of a substrate, a source/drain pattern on the substrate, the source/drain pattern including a first pattern including a first material and a second pattern including a second material that is different from the first material, and a backside conductive contact that extends into the substrate and into the source/drain pattern. The backside conductive contact includes a first region that extends into the first pattern of the source/drain pattern and a second region on the first region. The second region of the backside conductive contact has a second width that is greater than a first width of the first region of the backside conductive contact in a direction parallel to a second surface of the substrate.

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions; first and second channel layers on the first region and the second region with a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode thereon, respectively; a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region on at least one side of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, respectively; an auxiliary epitaxial pattern extending into the second source/drain region from an upper surface thereof, a first contact plug extending into the first source/drain region from an upper surface thereof; and a second contact plug extending into the auxiliary epitaxial pattern from an upper surface thereof. The first source/drain region has a first depth and a first impurity region including first impurities, the second source/drain region has a second depth and a second impurity region including second impurities, with the second depth greater than the first depth.

A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a first active pattern on a first active region of a substrate; a second active pattern on a second active region of the substrate, wherein the first active region is spaced apart from the second active region in a first direction; a first channel pattern that includes first semiconductor patterns that are spaced apart from each other and vertically stacked on the first active pattern; and a gate electrode on the first channel pattern. The gate electrode includes: first metal patterns on the first semiconductor patterns on the first active region; and a gap-fill pattern between the first metal patterns on the first active region. A maximum width in the first direction of the gap-fill pattern is less than a maximum width in the first direction of the first metal patterns.

A semiconductor device may include a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode spaced apart from each other on a substrate, a first channel layer on one side of the first gate electrode, a second channel layer on one side of the second gate electrode, and a third gate electrode connecting the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode to each other. The first channel layer and the second channel layer may extend in a first direction and the first direction may be perpendicular to the substrate.

Nanostructure channels of a nanostructure transistor are etched during a nanosheet release process for removing sacrificial nanostructure layers between the nanostructure channels. The nanostructure channels are etched such that the thickness of the nanostructure channels at the edges of the nanostructure channels is less than the thickness of the nanostructure channels at the centers of the nanostructure channels. This results in the nanostructure channels having a sloped/tapered or curved cross-sectional profile between the centers and the edges of the nanostructure channels. The resultant cross-section profile provides larger openings between vertically adjacent nanostructure channels for depositing material of a gate structure of the nanostructure transistor between vertically adjacent nanostructure channels of the nanostructure transistor. The larger openings increase the gap-filling performance for forming the gate structure, which reduces the likelihood of (and/or size of) seams and/or voids in the gate structure between vertically adjacent nanostructure channels.

A device includes a plurality of nanosheets over a substrate, a source/drain feature adjacent to the plurality of nanosheets, and a gate structure disposed over the plurality of nanosheets and between adjacent nanosheets. Gate spacers are disposed over sidewalls of opposing sides of a top portion of the gate structure. Inner spacers interpose lateral ends of adjacent ones of the plurality of nanosheets in a first direction and interpose portions of the gate structure and the source/drain feature in a second direction. Each of the inner spacers includes a core layer and a liner layer disposed on a top and bottom surfaces of the core layer. There is an offset of a dimension of the plurality of nanosheets in a third direction at an interface between portions of the nanosheets underneath the gate spacers and portions of the nanosheets underneath the top portion of the gate structure.