Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9893064-B2
Application number	US-201615007533-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2016
Priority date	Mar 25, 2015
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, first and second fin-type active areas which extend in a first direction on the substrate, first and second gate lines on the substrate that extend in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and first and second contact structures. The first and second gate lines intersect the first and second fin-type active areas, respectively. The first contact structure is on the first fin-type active area at a side of the first gate line and contacts the first gate line. The second contact structure is on the second fin-type active area at a side of the second gate line. The first contact structure includes a first lower contact including metal silicide and a first upper contact on the first lower contact. The second contact structure includes a second lower contact including metal silicide and a second upper contact on the second lower contact.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An integrated circuit device comprising:
a substrate;
a first fin-type active area and a second fin-type active area spaced apart from each other on the substrate, the first fin-type active area and the second fin-type active area extending in a first direction;
a first gate line and a second gate line on the substrate,
the first gate line and the second gate line extending straight in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and
the first gate line and the second gate line intersecting the first fin-type active area and the second fin-type active area, respectively;

a first contact structure on the first fin-type active area,
the first contact structure at a side of the first gate line,
the first contact structure contacting the first gate line,
the first contact structure including a first upper contact on a first lower contact,
the first lower contact including metal silicide; and

a second contact structure on the second fin-type active area,
the second contact structure at a side of the second gate line,
the second contact structure including a second upper contact on a second lower contact, and
the second lower contact including metal silicide, wherein

a width of the first lower contact in the second direction is greater than a width of the first upper contact in the first direction, and
a width of the first upper contact in the first direction is greater than the width of the first lower contact in the first direction.

2. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein the first upper contact contacts an upper surface of the first gate line.

3. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein
the first upper contact contacts the first gate line, and a sidewall of the first lower contact is spaced part from a sidewall of the first gate line in the first direction and faces the sidewall of the first gate line.

4. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein a width of the first upper contact in the first direction is greater than a width of the second upper contact in the first direction.

5. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein
the first upper contact includes a first portion and a second portion,
the first portion of the first upper contact contacts the first lower contact, and
the second portion of the first upper contact protrudes downwardly from a side of the first portion and contacts the first gate line.

6. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein the first upper contact is spaced apart from the second lower contact.

7. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein
the first contact structure further includes a first lower barrier layer that surrounds side walls and a bottom surface of the first lower contact, and
the second contact structure further includes a second lower barrier layer that surrounds side walls and a bottom surface of the second lower contact.

8. The integrated circuit device of claim 1 , wherein
the first fin-type active area includes a pair of PMOS active areas,
the second fin-type active area includes two pairs of NMOS active areas, and
each pair of the two pairs of NMOS active areas is arranged at each of both sides of the pair of PMOS active areas.

9. An integrated circuit device comprising:
a substrate;
a static random-access memory array on the substrate,
the static random-access memory array including a plurality of static random-access memory cells,
the static random-access memory array including,
a plurality of first fin-type active areas and a plurality of second fin-type active areas on the substrate and extending in a first direction,
a first gate line and a second gate line on the substrate and extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction,

the first gate line and the second gate line intersecting the plurality of first fin-type active areas and the plurality of second fin-type active areas, respectively, and
a first contact structure on one of the plurality of first fin-type active areas at a side of the first gate line and a second contact structure on one of the plurality of second fin-type active areas at a side of the second gate line,

the first contact structure including,
a first lower contact on the plurality of first fin-type active areas, and
a first upper contact on the first lower contact, the first upper contact contacting a portion of the first gate line, and
a first lower barrier layer which surrounds side walls of the first lower contact.

10. The integrated circuit device of claim 9 , wherein the first lower contact includes metal silicide.

11. The integrated circuit device of claim 9 , wherein the second contact structure includes:
a second lower contact on the plurality of second fin-type active areas, and
a second upper contact on the second lower contact, wherein
the second upper contact does not contact the first gate line or the second gate line, and
a height of an upper surface of the first lower contact is substantially equal to a height of an upper surface of the second lower contact.

12. The integrated circuit device of claim 11 , wherein
the second lower contact extends in the second direction, and
the second lower contact contacts the plurality of second fin-type active areas.

13. The integrated circuit device of claim 9 , wherein
the static random-access memory array includes a plurality of inverters,
each of the inverters includes a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor, a plurality of pass transistors connected to output nodes of the plurality of inverters, respectively,
the first gate line is shared by the pull-up transistor and the pull-down transistor, and
the second gate line is shared by two pass transistors selected from the plurality of pass transistors.

14. The integrated circuit device of claim 9 , wherein
the static random-access memory array includes a plurality of NMOS transistors and a plurality of PMOS transistors, and
the second gate line is shared by two NMOS transistors among the plurality of NMOS transistors.

15. The integrated circuit device of claim 9 , wherein
the static random-access memory array includes a plurality of NMOS transistors and a plurality of PMOS transistors, and
the first gate line is shared by two transistors that have different conductive-type channels, and
the two transistors are part of the plurality of NMOS transistors and the plurality of PMOS transistors.

16. An integrated circuit device comprising:
a plurality of fins extending in a first direction,
the plurality of fins being spaced apart from each other in a second direction that crosses the first direction,
the plurality of fins including a first fin and a second fin;

a first lower contact extending in the second direction over the first fin and the second fin;
a second lower contact on the second fin and spaced apart from the first lower contact,
the first lower contact and the second lower contact being formed of metal silicide;

a first gate line on the first fin and extending in the second direction;
a second gate line on the second fin and extending in the second direction,
the first gate line and the second gate line being spaced apart from each other;

a first upper contact on the first gate line and the first lower contact,
the first upper contact extending in the first direction; and

a second upper contact on the second lower contact.

17. The integrated circuit device of claim 16 , further comprising:
a substrate; and
a plurality of first and second gate lines on the substra

Assignees

• Chung Jae Yup
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chung Jae Yup

Classifications

• H01L27/0924 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/1104

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/0207

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10D89/10

  Integrated device layouts · CPC title

• H10D84/0193

  the components including FinFETs · CPC title