Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data driving circuit and a display device including the same, and the data driving circuit includes a plurality of data input terminals to which pixel data of an input image is input, and a plurality of voltage input terminals to which gamma tab voltages for each color having different voltage levels, and common gamma tab voltages having different voltage levels are each input. When the input image includes pixel data having different grayscale values for each color, a data voltage of a corresponding color is changed when any one of the gamma tab voltages for each color is changed, and data voltages of all colors are changed when any one of the common gamma tab voltages is changed.

Abstract: A washing machine including a plurality of washers may include a fixing bracket coupled to a front of a first housing in which a first tub is disposed and a front of a second housing in which a second tub is disposed, to prevent the first housing and the second housing from being separated from each other.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.

Abstract: A three-dimeiisioiial semiconductor device including a memory block including a stack structure comprising a second sub stack formed over a first sub stack, a plurality of channel plugs formed through the stack structure, and a separation pattern formed in the memory block.

Abstract: In a method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device according an embodiment, a first tunnel oxide layer, a nitrogen supply layer, and a second tunnel oxide layer having a density lower than that of the first tunnel oxide layer are formed on a substrate. Nitrogen in the nitrogen supply layer is diffused into the second tunnel oxide layer to convert at least a portion of the second tunnel oxide layer into an oxynitride layer.

Abstract: A polishing pad for chemical mechanical polishing includes a polymer matrix and a temperature sensitive agent dispersed in the polymer matrix and constituting 1 to 40% by volume of the polishing pad, wherein the temperature sensitive agent includes a two-dimensional (2D) sheet material having a thermal conductivity of 1 W/(m·K) or more.

Abstract: In a method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device according an embodiment, a first tunnel oxide layer, a nitrogen supply layer, and a second tunnel oxide layer having a density lower than that of the first tunnel oxide layer are formed on a substrate. Nitrogen in the nitrogen supply layer is diffused into the second tunnel oxide layer to convert at least a portion of the second tunnel oxide layer into an oxynitride layer.

Abstract: In a method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device according an embodiment, a first tunnel oxide layer, a nitrogen supply layer, and a second tunnel oxide layer having a density lower than that of the first tunnel oxide layer are formed on a substrate. Nitrogen in the nitrogen supply layer is diffused into the second tunnel oxide layer to convert at least a portion of the second tunnel oxide layer into an oxynitride layer.

Abstract: Described herein are chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry compositions, such as CMP slurry compositions for polishing an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer, along with methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using such a CMP slurry composition. The CMP slurry composition can include a polishing particle, a dispersing agent, an auxiliary oxidizing agent, and a sugar alcohol compound.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor region for receiving light and generating an image data and a pad region adjacent to the sensor region, an insulation layer on the substrate, and a lower transparent electrode on the insulation layer in the sensor region, and an etch stop layer on the insulation layer in the sensor region and pad region. The etch stop layer may include silicon nitride. A height of an uppermost surface of the lower transparent electrode may be substantially equal to a height of an upper surface of the etch stop layer, with respect to the substrate.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region; an interlayer insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, the interlayer insulating layer including a first opening on the first region and having a first width; and a second opening on the second region and having a second width, the second width being greater than the first width; at least one first metal pattern filling the first opening; a second metal pattern in the second opening; and a filling pattern on the second metal pattern in the second opening, wherein the at least one first metal pattern and the second metal pattern each include a same first metal material, and the filling pattern is formed of a non-metal material.

Abstract: Described herein are chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry compositions, such as CMP slurry compositions for polishing an indium tin oxide (ITO) layer, along with methods of fabricating a semiconductor device using such a CMP slurry composition. The CMP slurry composition can include a polishing particle, a dispersing agent, an auxiliary oxidizing agent, and a sugar alcohol compound.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate having a channel layer, a first tunneling layer disposed on the channel layer, a second tunneling layer disposed on the first tunneling layer, a third tunneling layer disposed on the second tunneling layer, a charge trap layer disposed on the third tunneling layer, a charge barrier layer disposed on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the charge barrier layer. The first tunneling layer includes a first insulative material. The second tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The third tunneling layer includes a second insulative material. The resistance switching material is a material whose electric resistance varies reversibly between a high resistance state and a low resistance state depending on a magnitude of an applied electric field.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor region for receiving light and generating an image data and a pad region adjacent to the sensor region, an insulation layer on the substrate, and a lower transparent electrode on the insulation layer in the sensor region, and an etch stop layer on the insulation layer in the sensor region and pad region. The etch stop layer may include silicon nitride. A height of an uppermost surface of the lower transparent electrode may be substantially equal to a height of an upper surface of the etch stop layer, with respect to the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a slurry composition for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) includes, as polishing particles, a complex compound of both fullerenol and alkylammonium hydroxide. The slurry composition, which exhibits excellent polishing properties, may be prepared at low cost in large quantities. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the slurry composition comprising obtaining a mixture of a fullerenol complex compound and unreacted hydrogen peroxide by reacting alkylammonium hydroxide, hydrogen peroxide, and fullerene, removing the unreacted hydrogen peroxide by adding hydrogen peroxide decomposition catalyst particles to the mixture, separating the hydrogen peroxide decomposition catalyst particles from the mixture by filtration, and adding a polishing additive to the mixture.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a sensor region for receiving light and generating an image data and a pad region adjacent to the sensor region, an insulation layer on the substrate, and a lower transparent electrode on the insulation layer in the sensor region, and an etch stop layer on the insulation layer in the sensor region and pad region. The etch stop layer may include silicon nitride. A height of an uppermost surface of the lower transparent electrode may be substantially equal to a height of an upper surface of the etch stop layer, with respect to the substrate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region; an interlayer insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, the interlayer insulating layer including a first opening on the first region and having a first width; and a second opening on the second region and having a second width, the second width being greater than the first width; at least one first metal pattern filling the first opening; a second metal pattern in the second opening; and a filling pattern on the second metal pattern in the second opening, wherein the at least one first metal pattern and the second metal pattern each include a same first metal material, and the filling pattern is formed of a non-metal material.

Abstract: In a method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device according an embodiment, a first tunnel oxide layer, a nitrogen supply layer, and a second tunnel oxide layer having a density lower than that of the first tunnel oxide layer are formed on a substrate. Nitrogen in the nitrogen supply layer is diffused into the second tunnel oxide layer to convert at least a portion of the second tunnel oxide layer into an oxynitride layer.