Patents by Inventor Noh Yeal Kwak

Noh Yeal Kwak 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).

  • Publication number: 20140054665
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes a tunnel insulating layer formed on an active region defined by an isolation layer, a polysilicon pattern including a first portion formed on the tunnel insulating layer on the active region and a second portion protruding from the first portion beyond the isolation layer, wherein the second portion has a narrower width than the first portion, and a doped region formed near a surface of the polysilicon pattern and including p-type dopants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SK HYNIX INC.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal KWAK
  • Patent number: 7858491
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. A P well for a cell junction may be formed by performing an ion implantation process employing a zero tilt condition. Stress caused by collision between a dopant and a Si lattice within a semiconductor substrate may be minimized and, therefore stress remaining within the semiconductor substrate may be minimized. Accordingly, Number Of Program (NOP) fail by disturbance caused by stress remaining within a channel junction may be reduced. Further, a broad doping profile may be formed at the interface of trenches by using BF2 as the dopant when the P well is formed. A fluorine getter layer may be formed on an oxide film of the trench sidewalls and may be used as a boron diffusion barrier. Although a Spin On Dielectric (SOD) insulating layer may be used as an isolation layer, loss of boron (B) may be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Min Sik Jang
  • Publication number: 20080268624
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. A P well for a cell junction may be formed by performing an ion implantation process employing a zero tilt condition. Stress caused by collision between a dopant and a Si lattice within a semiconductor substrate may be minimized and, therefore stress remaining within the semiconductor substrate may be minimized. Accordingly, Number Of Program (NOP) fail by disturbance caused by stress remaining within a channel junction may be reduced. Further, a broad doping profile may be formed at the interface of trenches by using BF2 as the dopant when the P well is formed. A fluorine getter layer may be formed on an oxide film of the trench sidewalls and may be used as a boron diffusion barrier. Although a Spin On Dielectric (SOD) insulating layer may be used as an isolation layer, loss of boron (B) may be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Min Sik Jang
  • Patent number: 7429519
    Abstract: A method of forming an isolation structure of a semiconductor device includes implanting dopants of a first type into a semiconductor substrate to form a doped region in the substrate. A mask layer is provided over the substrate and the doped region of the substrate. The mask layer is patterned to expose an isolation region of the substrate, the isolation region defining an active region, the isolation region and the active region being defined at least partly within the doped region. Dopants of a second type are implanted at an edge of the active region as defined by the isolation region. The isolation region of the semiconductor substrate is etched to form an isolation trench having a depth that extends below a depth of the doped region. Dopants of a third type are implanted on sidewalls of the trench in order to minimize the dopants of the second type provided on the sidewalls of the isolation trench from migrating away from the sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Chul Young Ham, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20080124894
    Abstract: A method of forming an isolation structure of a semiconductor device includes implanting dopants of a first type into a semiconductor substrate to form a doped region in the substrate. A mask layer is provided over the substrate and the doped region of the substrate. The mask layer is patterned to expose an isolation region of the substrate, the isolation region defining an active region, the isolation region and the active region being defined at least partly within the doped region. Dopants of a second type are implanted at an edge of the active region as defined by the isolation region. The isolation region of the semiconductor substrate is etched to form an isolation trench having a depth that extends below a depth of the doped region. Dopants of a third type are implanted on sidewalls of the trench in order to minimize the dopants of the second type provided on the sidewalls of the isolation trench from migrating away from the sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Chul Young Ham, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20080003788
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate for a high voltage transistor on a semiconductor substrate, forming a Double Doped Drain (DDD) junction in the semiconductor substrate by means of an ion implantation process employing a DDD mask, and removing point defects, which have occurred in the DDD junction during the ion implantation process, by means of a Defect Recovery Anneal (DRA) process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Chul Young Ham, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20070293026
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the step of performing an ion implantation process for implanting an impurity ion into a semiconductor substrate, and performing annealing in a state where temperature of respective portions of an annealing chamber are set differently in order to activate the impurity ion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Min Sik Jang, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 7157332
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a flash memory cell. A structure in which a floating gate, an ONO dielectric film and a control gate are stacked is formed by means of a gate mask process and an etch process. After a rapid thermal nitrification process is performed, a re-oxidization process is performed. Therefore, Si-dangling bonding broken during the gate etch process becomes a Si—N bonding structure by means of a rapid thermal nitrification process. As such, as abnormal oxidization occurring at the side of an ONO dielectric film during a re-oxidization process is prohibited, a smiling phenomenon of the ONO dielectric film is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 7018885
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices. Before the threshold voltage ion is implanted, an inert ion having no electrical properties is implanted into the bottom of a channel region to form an anti-diffusion layer. Therefore, it is possible to prevent diffusion of an ion for adjusting the threshold voltage into the bottom of the channel region, occurring in a subsequent annealing process, and prohibit behavior of the ion at the channel region when a high voltage is applied to a P well. Further, the anti-diffusion layer serves as a layer to gather defects, etc. existing in the semiconductor substrate. Also, as the amount of channel ion could be adjusted by controlling the implantation depth of the inert ion, it is possible to control the threshold voltage of the device depending on higher integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6946337
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing semiconductor devices. Before the threshold voltage ion is implanted, an inert ion having no electrical properties is implanted into the bottom of a channel region to form an anti-diffusion layer. Therefore, it is possible to prevent diffusion of an ion for adjusting the threshold voltage into the bottom of the channel region, occurring in a subsequent annealing process, and prohibit behavior of the ion at the channel region when a high voltage is applied to a P well. Further, the anti-diffusion layer serves as a layer to gather defects, etc. existing in the semiconductor substrate. Also, as the amount of channel ion could be adjusted by controlling the implantation depth of the inert ion, it is possible to control the threshold voltage of the device depending on higher integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6933214
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. A monoatomic dopant having a high atomic weight is implanted to form an ion implantation layer, instead of using a dopant of a small atomic weight such as B or a molecular ion such as a BF2 in order to control the threshold voltage of the semiconductor device. Therefore, in an annealing process for mitigating damage caused by ion implantation, it is possible to limit TED (transient enhanced diffusion) of the dopant and prevent degradation of the film quality due to outgasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6927150
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. In ion implantation process for controlling the threshold voltage of the transistor or the semiconductor device such as a flash memory cell, the dose of the impurity capable of securing the uniformity is implanted by minimum. The retained dose of the impurity is controlled by out gassing the implanted impurity by means of a cleaning process. Therefore, a uniform distribution characteristic of the implanted impurity could be obtained. A transistor or a flash memory cell of a low operating voltage could be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6927151
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed which comprises, forming a first well region by performing an ion implantation process for implanting first ions into a semiconductor substrate, and then forming a second well region in the first well region by performing an ion implantation process for implanting second ions having larger mass than the first ions; and forming a three-part or three-fold well region by performing an annealing process on the result structure wherein the lighter first ions are disposed in the upper and lower well regions and the heavier second ions are disposed in the middle well region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6893944
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer. In the present invention, a nucleation site is formed in a region deep into the wafer through low-temperature annealing process, and oxygen or precipitation material, the metallic impurity, or the like is trapped in the nucleation site through rapid thermal annealing process. As a gettering effect is improved using the rapid thermal annealing process, the concentration of the impurity on the surface of the wafer can be lowered and the reliability of the device could be improved. Further, the annealing steps can be reduced than the prior art and the productivity of the device can thus be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Ho Lee, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6878596
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a high voltage junction in a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a double diffused drain junction, and making amorphous the double diffused drain junction to a first depth by implanting an impurity having a high atomic weight than an impurity injected into the double diffused drain junction, implanting an impurity so that the concentration of the concentration of an impurity to a second depth lower than the first depth and then activating the impurities. Thus, the present invention can reduce the sheet resistance by prohibiting diffusion of an impurity, prohibit a channeling phenomenon by lowering the depth of the junction, and remove crystal defects by sufficiently activating an impurity and since a subsequent annealing process for activation can be performed at a high temperature, and thus improve reliability of a process and an electrical characteristic of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Hwan Park, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6869848
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flash memory device, in which a spike annealing is performed after an ion implantation for controlling a threshold voltage. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a uniform and stabilized doping profile for controlling a threshold voltage, to use BF2 ions as a dose for controlling a threshold voltage to obtain a shallow channel junction, to obtain different doping profiles in the channel junction depending on the process conditions and the atmosphere in the spike annealing equipment, and to control a doping profile for controlling a threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040266149
    Abstract: The present invention is provided to manufacture a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: forming a first well region by performing an ion implantation process for implanting first ions into a semiconductor substrate, and then forming a second well region in the first well region by performing an ion implantation process for implanting second ions having larger mass than the first ions; and forming a well region by performing an annealing process on the result structure. Therefore, it is possible to prevent TED phenomenon generated due to the high-energy heat treatment process to be performed later and to provide the increased activation ratio of ions compared to the conventional source/drain region in which only the ions having large mass are implanted by performing an annealing process after the first well region and the second well region are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040248366
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flash memory device, in which a spike annealing is performed after an ion implantation for controlling a threshold voltage. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a uniform and stabilized doping profile for controlling a threshold voltage, to use BF2 ions as a dose for controlling a threshold voltage to obtain a shallow channel junction, to obtain different doping profiles in the channel junction depending on the process conditions and the atmosphere in the spike annealing equipment, and to control a doping profile for controlling a threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6762103
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming an isolation film in semiconductor devices using a shallow trench. Trenches are formed in silicon substrates of a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region. The inert ion is then injected into the surface of the trench in the peripheral circuit region, thus forming an amorphous layer. Thereafter, an oxidization process is implemented so that a thick oxide film is grown due to excessive oxidization at the amorphous layer, thus making thicker the trench in the peripheral circuit region than the trench in the memory cell region by a thickness of the oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park, Cha Deok Dong
  • Patent number: 6759296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flash memory cell. The method includes forming a stack gate in which a floating gate and a control gate are stacked at a given region of a semiconductor substrate, and performing a rapid thermal nitrification process to form a nitride film at the side of the stack gate and over the semiconductor substrate. Therefore, the present invention can improve a retention characteristic and can prevent movement of threshold voltage control ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park