Patents by Inventor Yexiao Yu

Yexiao Yu 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: 11984398
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure comprises: providing a substrate, comprising a polysilicon layer, a first conductive layer, a first dielectric layer, a mask layer, and a sacrificial layer sequentially formed thereon, wherein the sacrificial layer has a plurality of first trenches distributed at intervals; forming a first insulating layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a protective layer, the protective layer only covering a surface of the first insulating layer above the top surface of the sacrificial layer; removing the protective layer, part of the first insulating layer, the sacrificial layer, and part of the mask layer to form a first pattern layer; and removing part of the first dielectric layer, part of the first conductive layer, and part of the polysilicon layer by using the first pattern layer as a mask to form a BL structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Zhongming Liu, Jia Fang
  • Patent number: 11963346
    Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a preparation method thereof, including: a substrate; a trench; a bit line contact structure; a bit line structure; a bit line protection structure, the bit line protection structure including a top dielectric layer and a sidewall structure, the top dielectric layer is located on the bit line structure and forms a laminated structure together with the bit line structure; the sidewall structure covers part of sidewalls of the laminated structure on the substrate, the sidewall structure has a first air gap; an isolation pattern structure, the isolation pattern structure has a second air gap, the isolation pattern structure extends along a second direction, the second direction intersects with the first direction, to form capacitance contact hole between the adjacent bit line protection structures and the adjacent isolation pattern structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Junyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11956946
    Abstract: The semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes the steps of: providing a substrate with bit line contact regions and isolation regions located between adjacent bit line contact regions; forming a groove in the substrate, the bottom of the groove exposes the bit line contact region and the isolation region adjacent to the bit line contact region; forming a contact region isolation layer covering at least sidewalls of the groove; and forming a contact region to cover the contact region isolating the surface of the layer and filling the bit line contact layer of the groove, the bit line contact layer being in contact with the bit line contact region at the bottom of the groove; forming a bit line layer on the bit line contact layer. The invention avoids damage to the sidewalls of the active region in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Zhongming Liu, Longyang Chen, Jia Fang
  • Patent number: 11942522
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure and the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes the following operations. A substrate provided with a plurality of active areas arranged at intervals is provided. A first laminated structure and a first photoresist layer are sequentially formed on the substrate. Negative Type Develop (NTD) is performed on the first photoresist layer, to form a first pattern. The first laminated structure is etched along the first pattern, to form a second pattern in the first laminated structure. The substrate is etched up to a preset depth by taking the first laminated structure having the second pattern as a mask, to form a recess and form a plurality of protuberances arranged at intervals on the reserved substrate. The recess surrounds the protuberance, and the active area is exposed between the protuberances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Zhongming Liu
  • Publication number: 20240098982
    Abstract: The present application discloses a semiconductor structure and a method for fabrication. This technique improves the stability of the bit line structure. The semiconductor structure is formed in a bit line trench in a substrate, it includes: a bit line conductive layer formed in the bit line trench, and the top surface of the bit line conductive layer is higher the top surface of the substrate; a barrier layer formed at least partially between the bit line conductive layer and the inner wall of the bit line trench; and an isolation layer formed on top of the bit line conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jia Fang, Zhongming Liu, Yexiao Yu
  • Patent number: 11871564
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; forming an initial trench in the substrate; forming a sacrificial layer, the sacrificial layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion filling the initial trench and the second portion covering an upper surface of the substrate and an upper surface of the first portion; forming a division groove in the second portion, to pattern the second portion into a sacrificial pattern, the sacrificial pattern being arranged corresponding to the first portion; forming a filling layer in the division groove, the filling layer filling the division groove; removing the sacrificial pattern and the first portion, to form a word line trench; and forming a buried gate word line in the word line trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yexiao Yu
  • Publication number: 20230282479
    Abstract: A preparation method for a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure are provided. Herein, the preparation method comprises: providing a structure to be processed, wherein the structure to be processed comprises a substrate, and an etching target layer, a bottom mask layer and a first mask layer stacked on the substrate; patterning the first mask layer to form a first pattern, the first pattern exposing parts of the bottom mask layer; forming spacers with vertical sidewall morphology on sidewalls of the first mask layer; removing the first mask layer; filling a gap between the spacers with a filling layer, in which a material of the spacers to a material of the filling layer has a high etching selectivity ratio; and removing the spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Longyang CHEN, Shijie Bai, Zhongming Liu, Yexiao Yu, Xianguo Zhou, Bin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230197461
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, a first mask and a second mask, etching the substrate by respectively using the first mask and the second mask, so as to form first grooves and second grooves on the substrate, wherein regions, in the substrate, where the first grooves and the second grooves are located form bit line grooves; and forming a conductive layer in each of the bit line grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Zhongming LIU, Xinman CAO, Jia FANG, Jiayun ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230180464
    Abstract: A method includes the following operations for preparing a semiconductor structure, a semiconductor, and a semiconductor memory. A first dielectric layer and a first barrier layer are deposited on a substrate including an active area in sequence. A first mask including a first etching pattern is formed on the first barrier layer, and includes a groove extending in a first direction and uniformly distributed etching holes. Herein, the groove penetrates through the etching hole, and the depth of the etching hole is larger than that of the groove. Etching is performed along the first etching pattern, to remove the first barrier layer and etch the first dielectric layer to form a conductive channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Longyang CHEN, Zhongming LIU, Zhong KONG
  • Publication number: 20230180460
    Abstract: A memory device and a method for manufacturing a memory device are provided. The memory device includes: a substrate, and a plurality of first capacitors embedded in the substrate; a plurality of first vertical transistors and a plurality of second vertical transistors, in which the plurality of first vertical transistors and the plurality of second vertical transistors are arranged on the substrate, and in which each of the plurality of first vertical transistors is electrically connected to a respective one of the plurality of first capacitors; and a plurality of second capacitors arranged on the plurality of first vertical transistors and the plurality of second vertical transistors, in which each of the plurality of second capacitors is electrically connected to a respective one of the plurality of second vertical transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Zhongming LIU, Yexiao Yu, Longyang Chen
  • Publication number: 20230180465
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes forming a spin on hard mask layer on a base, active areas arranged at intervals in the base, bit lines arranged at intervals and extending in a first direction on the base, each bit line electrically connected to at least one active area, and the spin on hard mask layer filled between the bit lines and covering the bit lines; removing part of the spin on hard mask layer to form first trenches arranged at intervals and extending in a second direction; forming first sacrificial layers in the first trenches; removing the spin on hard mask layer between the first sacrificial layers to form second trenches; forming first supporting layers in the second trenches; removing the first sacrificial layers and elongating the first trenches located between adjacent bit lines to the active areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Longyang Chen, Zhongming Liu
  • Publication number: 20230116155
    Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a semiconductor substrate including a memory area and a peripheral area; forming an insulating layer on a surface of the memory area, and forming a first metal layer on a surface of the peripheral area; etching the insulating layer and the memory area of the semiconductor substrate to form a plurality of bit line trenches arranged at intervals along a first direction and etched insulating layer, in which part of the bit line trench is located in the memory area of the semiconductor substrate, and the other part of the bit line trench is located in the etched insulating layer; forming a second metal layer on surfaces of the bit line trench, the memory area and the first metal layer; and etching the first metal layer and the second metal layer to form a semi-buried bit line structure and peripheral gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Zhongming LIU
  • Publication number: 20230016088
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate having an active area, the active area including a first active area and a second active area isolated from each other; forming a bitline contact groove on the semiconductor substrate, the bitline contact groove exposing the first active area; forming an etch stop layer covering a sidewall of the bitline contact groove, the etch stop layer exposing a partial area of the first active area at a bottom of the bitline contact groove; etching the semiconductor substrate by using the etch stop layer as a mask to form a pit at the bottom of the bitline contact groove, the pit being at least partially positioned in the first active area; removing the etch stop layer; forming a bitline structure; and forming a conductive plug electrically connected to the second active area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Zhongming LIU
  • Publication number: 20230013653
    Abstract: A memory device and a method for forming the same are provided. A hard mask layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate; and then multiple parallel mask patterns extending in a third direction are formed on the semiconductor substrate by adopting self-aligned multi-patterning. Openings are arranged between the adjacent mask patterns. The surfaces of multiple drain regions and corresponding part of the isolation layer in the third direction are exposed by the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Yexiao YU
  • Publication number: 20220392902
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure and the method for forming the same are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate including an active region; forming a word line in the substrate including a first portion and a second portion located at the end of the first portion, wherein the second portion of the word line protrudes from the first portion of the word line along the direction perpendicular to the substrate; forming a dielectric layer covering the substrate; and etching the dielectric layer and a part of the substrate to simultaneously form a first contact hole exposing the second portion of the word line and a second contact hole exposing the active region. The invention reduces the etching time and improves the etching efficiency. It avoids an excessively large etching depth of the second contact hole, thereby reducing the damage to the active region and the leakage current inside the semiconductor structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Shijie BAI, Yexiao YU, Zhongming LIU
  • Publication number: 20220392903
    Abstract: The semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes the steps of: providing a substrate with bit line contact regions and isolation regions located between adjacent bit line contact regions; forming a groove in the substrate, the bottom of the groove exposes the bit line contact region and the isolation region adjacent to the bit line contact region; forming a contact region isolation layer covering at least sidewalls of the groove; and forming a contact region to cover the contact region isolating the surface of the layer and filling the bit line contact layer of the groove, the bit line contact layer being in contact with the bit line contact region at the bottom of the groove; forming a bit line layer on the bit line contact layer. The invention avoids damage to the sidewalls of the active region in the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yexiao Yu, Zhongming Liu, Longyang Chen, Jia Fang
  • Publication number: 20220336467
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for fabricating a memory and a memory. This method includes: providing a substrate, the substrate being internally provided with a plurality of active areas, and each of the plurality of active areas including a first contact region and a second contact region; forming a plurality of bit lines on the substrate, each of the plurality of bit lines being connected to at least one of the first contact regions; forming an isolation layer on each of the plurality of bit lines, the isolation layer covering each of the plurality of bit lines and the substrate, the isolation layer being further provided with a plurality of filling holes corresponding to the plurality of second contact regions one to one; etching the isolation layer and the substrate along the plurality of filling holes, to fill in the plurality of second contact regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Longyang CHEN, Zhongming LIU, Yexiao YU
  • Publication number: 20220336466
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes: providing a base; forming multiple bit line structures on the base, where the multiple bit line structures are parallel to each other and extend in a first direction, and a trench is formed between adjacent bit line structures; forming a first conductive layer in the trench, where a void is formed in the first conductive layer; removing a part of the first conductive layer to form a first groove, where the bottom of the first groove exposes the void; forming an epitaxial layer on an inner wall of the first groove; and allowing the epitaxial layer to epitaxially grow to form an extension portion, such that the extension portion fills the void.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Longyang CHEN, Zhongming LIU, SHIJIE BAI, Yexiao YU
  • Publication number: 20220328495
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a memory includes: providing a substrate having a core region provided with a word line; forming a dielectric layer on the substrate, and etching the dielectric layer to form a first filling hole exposing the word line; forming a barrier layer on a hole wall of the first filling hole, where the barrier layer located in the first filling hole surrounds and forms a first intermediate hole exposing the word line; etching the word line exposed in the first intermediate hole to remove a first residue on the word line; and forming in the first intermediate hole a first wire electrically connected to the word line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yexiao YU
  • Publication number: 20220320112
    Abstract: The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a preparation method thereof, including: a substrate; a trench; a bit line contact structure; a bit line structure; a bit line protection structure, the bit line protection structure including a top dielectric layer and a sidewall structure, the top dielectric layer is located on the bit line structure and forms a laminated structure together with the bit line structure; the sidewall structure covers part of sidewalls of the laminated structure on the substrate, the sidewall structure has a first air gap; an isolation pattern structure, the isolation pattern structure has a second air gap, the isolation pattern structure extends along a second direction, the second direction intersects with the first direction, to form capacitance contact hole between the adjacent bit line protection structures and the adjacent isolation pattern structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yexiao YU, Junyi Zhang