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).

  • Patent number: 6753232
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. A stabilized junction is formed by simultaneously adjusting diffusion in a channel direction and a depth direction by restricting transient enhanced diffusion and oxidation enhanced diffusion, and reducing a short channel effect and diffusion in the depth direction, by positioning a nitrified oxide film between a gate electrode and a nitride film spacer formed at side walls of the gate electrode in order to remove defects generated due to stress differences between the gate electrode and the nitride film spacer in a formation process of a PMOS transistor. It is thus possible to form a device having an ultra shallow junction which is not influenced by miniaturization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh-Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park
  • Publication number: 20040106256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flash memory cell. A tunnel oxide film is formed before a trench is formed and an exposed portion is then etched by a given thickness. Therefore, a phenomenon that the corner of the trench is thinly formed by a sidewall oxidization process is prevented and an active region of a desired critical dimension can be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Cha Deok Dong, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040106272
    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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040097059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. An atomic dopant having a large atomic weight and made of monoatomic 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 which has been usually employed, in case that the ion implantation layer is formed 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 prohibit by maximum generation of a TED (transient enhanced diffusion) phenomenon of a dopant and prevent degradation of the film quality due to outgasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: HYNIX SEMICONDUCTOR INC.
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6716701
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device. An ion implantation layer is formed into a given depth of the semiconductor substrate. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the dopant (P31) gettered on the surface of the semiconductor substrate from being diffused toward the bottom when a well ion is injected. The dopant (P31) gettered on the surface of the semiconductor substrate is easily experienced by transit-enhanced diffusion even at low temperature. Also, the dopant may serve as counter dopping in the buried channel. In the present invention, as the behavior of this dopant (P31) is prohibited in a subsequent annealing process, the concentration of the ion for controlling the threshold voltage could be uniformly kept. Therefore, the present invention can manufacture devices of high reliability having a stable threshold voltage characteristic and can be flexibly applied to manufacturing the devices depending on reduction in the design rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Hong Seon Yang
  • Publication number: 20040063281
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park, Cha Deok Dong
  • Patent number: 6699744
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of forming a MOS transistor of a semiconductor device and, more particularly, to a method of forming a PMOS transistor of a semiconductor device that minimizes temporary reinforcement and diffusion of dopants for controlling a threshold voltage and dopants for forming a gate electrode due to the selective oxidization of side walls of a conductive layer even though a post heat process is performed at a low temperature by implanting inert ions into the entire semiconductor substrate having a gate pattern including a conductive layer and a metal layer. Thus, the conductive layer and the metal layer are made to have different surface binding capacities to improve the characteristics, reliability and yield of the semiconductor device and to enable high integration of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh-yeal Kwak, Sang-wook Park
  • Publication number: 20040018737
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventor: Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040014296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming a device isolation film in a semiconductor device using a shallow trench. After the trench is formed, inert ion is implanted into a silicon substrate at upper and bottom edge portions of the trench, thus making amorphous the edge portions. The oxidization speed is increased as a reaction speed of silicon (Si) and oxygen (O2) at the amorphous portions is increased. Thus, a peel-off phenomenon at the edge portions of the trench is prevented. As a result, as a phenomenon that a gate oxide film is thinly formed at the upper edge portion of the trench is prevented, generation of the leakage current due to centralized electric field and reliability of the device is improved accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park
  • Publication number: 20040014301
    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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Dong Ho Lee, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20040014294
    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: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Hwan Park, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20030119257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flash memory cell. A tunnel oxide film is formed before a trench is formed and an exposed portion is then etched by a given thickness. Therefore, a phenomenon that the corner of the trench is thinly formed by a sidewall oxidization process is prevented and an active region of a desired critical dimension can be secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Cha Deok Dong, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20030119334
    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: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Noh Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park
  • Publication number: 20030003670
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. A stabilized junction is formed by simultaneously adjusting diffusion in a channel direction and a depth direction by restricting transient enhanced diffusion and oxidation enhanced diffusion, and reducing a short channel effect and diffusion in the depth direction, by positioning a nitrified oxide film between a gate electrode and a nitride film spacer formed at side walls of the gate electrode in order to remove defects generated due to stress differences between the gate electrode and the nitride film spacer in a formation process of a PMOS transistor. It is thus possible to form a device having an ultra shallow junction which is not influenced by miniaturization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Noh-Yeal Kwak, Sang Wook Park
  • Publication number: 20020197837
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of forming a MOS transistor of a semiconductor device and, more particularly, to a method of forming a PMOS transistor of a semiconductor device that minimizes temporary reinforcement and diffusion of dopants for controlling a threshold voltage and dopants for forming a gate electrode due to the selective oxidization of side walls of a conductive layer even though a post heat process is performed at a low temperature by implanting inert ions into the entire semiconductor substrate having a gate pattern including a conductive layer and a metal layer. Thus, the conductive layer and the metal layer are made to have different surface binding capacities to improve the characteristics, reliability and yield of the semiconductor device and to enable high integration of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Noh-yeal Kwak, Sang-wook Park
  • Patent number: 6472273
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flash memory device includes the steps of sequentially forming a tunnel oxide film and a first polysilicon layer on a semiconductor substrate in which a device separation film is formed and then patterning the tunnel oxide film and the first polysilicon layer to form a floating gate; forming a mask so that a portion in which a source region will be formed can be exposed and then removing the device separation film at the exposed portion; forming a dielectric film including a lower oxide film, a nitride film, and an upper oxide film on the entire structure; performing an annealing process; then forming a second polysilicon layer on the dielectric film; sequentially removing the polysilicon layer, the upper oxide film, and the nitride film in a portion in which a source region and a drain region will be formed, and injecting impurity ions into the semiconductor substrate at a portion in which the lower oxide film remains to form a source region and a drain region; after removing the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Hee Cho, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6444522
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of manufacturing a flash memory device. In order to solve the problems that a break down voltage between wells is reduced and an insulating characteristic between the wells is lowered due to degraded barrier characteristic between the wells, in a flash memory device employing a triple well structure, the present invention forms an anti-diffusion region for preventing diffusion of dopants between a P-well region and a N-well region by nitrogen ion implantation, thus improving the electrical characteristic of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byung Hee Cho, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Publication number: 20020009853
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flash memory device includes the steps of sequentially forming a tunnel oxide film and a first polysilicon layer on a semiconductor substrate in which a device separation film is formed and then patterning the tunnel oxide film and the first polysilicon layer to form a floating gate; forming a mask so that a portion in which a source region will be formed can be exposed and then removing the device separation film at the exposed portion; forming a dielectric film including a lower oxide film, a nitride film, and an upper oxide film on the entire structure; performing an annealing process; then forming a second polysilicon layer on the dielectric film; sequentially removing the polysilicon layer, the upper oxide film, and the nitride film in a portion in which a source region and a drain region will be formed, and injecting impurity ions into the semiconductor substrate at a portion in which the lower oxide film remains to form a source region and a drain region; after removing the
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Byung Hee Cho, Noh Yeal Kwak
  • Patent number: 6261911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a junction in a semiconductor device. When forming an elevated source/drain junction (ESD) of a buried channel field effect transistor (BC-FET) using a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) technique, a self-aligned epitaxial silicon (SESS) is formed on the lower portion of a gate side-wall spacer, resulting in the improvement of a short channel characteristic by suppressing a facet occurred when forming an elevated source/drain junction (EDS) of the buried channel field effect transistors (BC-FETs) using a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) technique as well as the increase of the current density by lowering the series resistance of source/drain extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Ho Lee, Seung Chul Lee, Noh Yeal Kwak, In Seok Yeo, Sahng Kyoo Lee