Patents by Inventor Hyun-seok Lim

Hyun-seok Lim has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6348376
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal nitride film using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and a method of forming a metal contact and a semiconductor capacitor of a semiconductor device using the same, are provided. The method of forming a metal nitride film using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) in which a metal source and a nitrogen source are used as a precursor, includes the steps of inserting a semiconductor substrate into a deposition chamber, flowing the metal source into the deposition chamber, removing the metal source remaining in the deposition chamber by cutting off the inflow of the metal source and flowing a purge gas into the deposition chamber, cutting off the purge gas and flowing the nitrogen source into the deposition chamber to react with the metal source adsorbed on the semiconductor substrate, and removing the nitrogen source remaining in the deposition chamber by cutting off the inflow of the nitrogen source and flowing the purge gas into the deposition chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Lim, Sang-Bom Kang, In-Sang Jeon, Gil-Heyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20020006708
    Abstract: A selective metal layer formation method, a capacitor formation method using the same, and a method of forming an ohmic layer on a contact hole and filling the contact hole using the same, are provided. A sacrificial metal layer is selectively deposited on a conductive layer by supplying a sacrificial metal source gas which deposits selectively on a semiconductor substrate having an insulating film and the conductive layer. Sacrificial metal atoms and a halide are formed, and the sacrificial metal layer is replaced with a deposition metal layer such as titanium Ti or platinum Pt, by supplying a metal halide gas having a halogen coherence smaller than the halogen coherence of the metal atoms in the sacrificial metal layer. If such a process is used to form a capacitor lower electrode or form an ohmic layer on the bottom of a contact hole, a metal layer can be selectively formed at a temperature of 500° C. or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventors: SANG-BUM KANG, YUN-SOOK CHAE, SANG-IN LEE, HYUN-SEOK LIM, MEE-YOUNG YOON
  • Publication number: 20020000598
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal layer having excellent thermal and oxidation resistant characteristics using atomic layer deposition is provided. The metal layer includes a reactive metal (A), an element (B) for the amorphous combination between the reactive metal (A) and nitrogen (N), and nitrogen (N). The reactive metal (A) may be titanium (Ti), tantalum (Ta), tungsten (W), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb). The amorphous combination element (B) may be aluminum (Al), silicon (Si) or boron (B). The metal layer is formed by alternately injecting pulsed source gases for the elements (A, B and N) into a chamber according to atomic layer deposition to thereby alternately stack atomic layers. Accordingly, the composition ratio of a nitrogen compound (A—B—N) of the metal layer can be desirably adjusted just by appropriately determining the number of injection pulses of each source gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Sang-Bom Kang, Hyun-Seok Lim, Yung-Sook Chae, In-Sang Jeon, Gil-Heyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20010034097
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal nitride film using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and a method of forming a metal contact and a semiconductor capacitor of a semiconductor device using the same, are provided. The method of forming a metal nitride film using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) in which a metal source and a nitrogen source are used as a precursor, includes the steps of inserting a semiconductor substrate into a deposition chamber, flowing the metal source into the deposition chamber, removing the metal source remaining in the deposition chamber by cutting off the inflow of the metal source and flowing a purge gas into the deposition chamber, cutting off the purge gas and flowing the nitrogen source into the deposition chamber to react with the metal source adsorbed on the semiconductor substrate, and removing the nitrogen source remaining in the deposition chamber by cutting off the inflow of the nitrogen source and flowing the purge gas into the deposition chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: Hyun-Seok Lim, Sang-Bom Kang, In-Sang Jeon, Gil-Heyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20010034123
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a barrier metal layer uses atomic layer deposition (ALD) as the mechanism for depositing the barrier metal. The method includes supplying a first source gas onto the entire surface of a semiconductor substrate in the form of a pulse, and supplying a second source gas, which reacts with the first source gas, onto the entire surface of the semiconductor substrate in the form of a pulse. In a first embodiment, the pulses overlap in time so that the second source gas reacts with part of the first source gas physically adsorbed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to thereby form part of the barrier metal layer by chemical vapor deposition whereas another part of the second source gas reacts with the first source gas chemically adsorbed at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to thereby form part of the barrier metal layer by atomic layer deposition. Thus, the deposition rate is greater than if the barrier metal layer were only formed by ALD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventors: In-Sang Jeon, Sang-Bom Kang, Hyun-Seok Lim, Gil-Heyun Choi
  • Publication number: 20010029094
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device having an aluminum (Al) interconnection layer with excellent surface morphology forms an interface control layer having a plurality of atomic layers before forming the Al interconnection layer. In the fabrication method, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) film having a contact hole which exposes a conductive region of the semiconductor substrate is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and an interface control layer having a plurality of atomic layers continuously deposited is formed on the inner wall of the contact hole and the upper surface of the interlayer dielectric film, to a thickness on the order of several angstroms to several tens of angstroms. Then, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) completes an Al blanket deposition on the resultant structure, including the interface control layer, to form a contact plug in the contact hole and an interconnection layer on the interlayer dielectric film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 1999
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: YOON MEE-YOUNG, SANG-IN LEE, HYUN-SEOK LIM
  • Patent number: 6287965
    Abstract: A method of forming a metal layer having excellent thermal and oxidation resistant characteristics using atomic layer deposition is provided. The metal layer includes a reactive metal (A), an element (B) for the amorphous combination between the reactive metal (A) and nitrogen (N), and nitrogen (N). The reactive metal (A) may be titanium (Ti), tantalum (Ta), tungsten (W), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb). The amorphous combination element (B) may be aluminum (Al), silicon (Si) or boron (B). The metal layer is formed by alternately injecting pulsed source gases for the elements (A, B and N) into a chamber according to atomic layer deposition to thereby alternately stack atomic layers. Accordingly, the composition ratio of a nitrogen compound (A—B—N) of the metal layer can be desirably adjusted just by appropriately determining the number of injection pulses of each source gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-bom Kang, Hyun-seok Lim, Yung-sook Chae, In-sang Jeon, Gil-heyun Choi