Abstract: There is provided a slide hinge device for guiding a slide of a slide part on a main part. The slide hinge device includes: a slide hinge unit installed in the rear of the slide part, for guiding a slide of the slide part; a fixed hinge unit installed in the front of the main part; and a lift hinge unit rotatably installed to the fixed hinge unit and engaged with the slide hinge unit to guide a slide of the slide hinge unit. In the case the slide part is opened, the lift hinge unit rotates to the fixed hinge unit and raises the slide part to be slanted towards the main part, thereby enabling a microphone and a receiver of a personal portable device to be close to the mouth and an ear of a user, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory device having conductive sidewall spacers and a method for fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory device includes: a substrate; a gate insulation layer formed on the substrate; a gate structure formed on the gate insulation layer; a pair of sidewall spacers formed on sidewalls of the gate structure; a pair of conductive sidewall spacers for trapping/detrapping charges formed on the pair of sidewall spacers; a pair of lightly doped drain regions formed in the substrate disposed beneath the sidewalls of the gate structure; and a pair of source/drain regions formed in the substrate disposed beneath edge portions of the pair of conductive sidewall spacers.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a gate insulation layer over a substrate, forming a first gate conductive layer over the gate insulation layer, forming a barrier metal over the first gate conductive layer, sequentially forming a second gate conductive layer and a gate hard mask over the barrier metal, patterning the gate hard mask, the second gate conductive layer, the barrier metal, the first gate conductive layer, and the gate insulation layer to form a gate pattern, and performing a plasma selective gate re-oxidation process on the gate pattern.

Abstract: A gate pattern of a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The gate pattern includes a substrate with a trench, a gate insulation layer, a first gate electrode layer and a second gate electrode layer. The gate insulation layer is formed over the substrate with the trench. The first gate electrode layer is buried into the trench not to be projected above the gate insulation layer. The second gate electrode layer is formed over the first gate electrode layer and has a predetermined portion contacting the first gate electrode layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a titanium layer and a titanium nitride layer formed on a substrate, a thin layer formed on the titanium nitride layer, and a metal layer formed on the thin layer, wherein the thin layer increases a grain size of the metal layer.

Abstract: Information for different subscribers of a service with the same modulation and channel encoding method is transmitted by allocating radio resources in a wireless portable Internet system. Also, identifier information on the subscriber of a concurrently allocated radio resource is transmitted through common control information. Therefore, information for a plurality of subscribers coexists in a single radio resource block, and it can be easily transmitted. Since a subscriber station which has received downlink information can know to which radio resource block the information for the corresponding station is allocated through the subscriber identifier information transmitted as common control information, the subscriber station can access desired information by accessing a specific radio resource block to which information for the subscriber is allocated in the received frame.

Abstract: A dielectric structure in a nonvolatile memory device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The dielectric structure includes: a first oxide layer; a first high-k dielectric film formed on the first oxide layer, wherein the first high-k dielectric film includes one selected from materials with a dielectric constant of approximately 9 or higher and a compound of at least two of the materials; and a second oxide layer formed on the first high-k dielectric film.

Abstract: A gate electrode with a double diffusion barrier and a fabrication method of a semiconductor device including the same are provided. The gate electrode of a semiconductor device includes: a silicon electrode; a double diffusion barrier formed on the silicon electrode and including at least a crystalline tungsten nitride-based layer; and a metal electrode formed on the double diffusion barrier.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal gate capable of preventing degradation in a characteristic of a gate insulating film upon formation of the metal gate. The method of forming the metal gate comprises the steps of providing a silicon substrate having device isolation films of a trench shape for defining an active region; forming a gate insulating film on the surface of the silicon substrate by means of a thermal oxidization process; sequentially forming a barrier metal film and a metal film for the gate on the gate insulating film; and patterning the metal film for the gate, the barrier metal film and the gate insulating film, wherein deposition of the barrier metal film and the metal film for the gate is performed by means of an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process or remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process.

Abstract: A method for forming a dual gate oxide layer, including the steps of: a) forming a gate oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate; and b) increasing a thickness of a part of the gate oxide layer by performing a decoupled plasma treatment. Additional heat processes are not necessary because the dual gate oxide layer is formed with the decoupled plasma. Also, the channel characteristic of the semiconductor device can be ensured because the silicon substrate is not damaged. Furthermore, because the threshold voltage in the cell region is increased without additional channel ion implantation, the electrical characteristic of the semiconductor device can be enhanced.

Abstract: A gate structure of a semiconductor memory device capable of preventing a poly void generation by forming a hard mask and maintaining a hysteresis area within a certain value. The gate structure of the semiconductor memory device includes: a gate insulation layer formed on a semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulation layer, wherein the gate electrode is formed by stacking a polysilicon layer and a metal layer; and a hard mask formed on the gate electrode, wherein a hysteresis area between the hard mask and the gate electrode materials is a equal to or less than approximately 2×1012 ° C.-dyne/cm2.

Abstract: A phase change memory device and, more particularly, to a phase change memory cell array suitable for the implementation of a high-density memory device. The phase change memory cell array includes a first access transistor pair and a second access transistor pair formed on a semiconductor substrate to be adjacent to each other while each of the first and second access transistor pairs having a common drain, phase change resistance elements formed on source regions of the access transistors, respectively, and a semiconductor region formed on the same plane as the common drains to electrically connect the common drains of the first and second transistor pairs. The phase change memory cell array and the memory device of are suitable for the implementation of a high-density semiconductor device, and capable of improving the reliability of a contact forming process by securing a sufficient space for the contact forming process.

Abstract: A method for forming a dual gate oxide layer, including the steps of: a) forming a gate oxide layer on a semiconductor substrate; and b) increasing a thickness of a part of the gate oxide layer by performing a decoupled plasma treatment. Additional heat processes are not necessary because the dual gate oxide layer is formed with the decoupled plasma. Also, the channel characteristic of the semiconductor device can be ensured because the silicon substrate is not damaged. Furthermore, because the threshold voltage in the cell region is increased without additional channel ion implantation, the electrical characteristic of the semiconductor device can be enhanced.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate that partially define a plurality of discharge cells in a space therebetween, and an electrode structure including an address electrode extending along a first direction, a dielectric layer formed on the address electrode, a first electrode extending along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a second electrode extending along the second direction intersecting the first direction, where the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically insulated from the address electrode, and at least a portion of each of the first electrode and the second electrode is associated with each of the discharge cells. At least one of the address electrode and the dielectric layer associated with each of the discharge cells may include a first portion and a second portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a dual gate dielectric structure capable of obtaining a simplified process and improving device reliability. The method includes the steps of: forming an insulation layer on a substrate; forming a nitride layer on the insulation layer; selectively etching the nitride layer in a predetermined region of the substrate; performing a radical oxidation process to form an oxide layer on the insulation layer and the etched nitride layer; forming a gate conductive layer on the oxide layer; and performing a selective etching process to the gate conductive layer, the oxide layer, the nitride layer and the insulation layer, so that the first dielectric structure formed in the predetermined region includes the insulation layer and the oxide layer and the second gate dielectric structure formed in regions other than the predetermined region includes the insulation layer, the nitride layer and the oxide layer.

Abstract: A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) has an opposed discharge structure to reduce its discharge firing voltage and to enhance its luminescence efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor devices and method of fabricating the same. Anti-etch films are formed in the top corners of the device isolation film using a material that has a different etch selectivity ratio from nitride or oxide and is not etched in an oxide gate pre-cleaning process. It is thus possible to prevent formation of a moat at the top corners of the device isolation film and the gate oxide film from being thinly formed, thereby improving reliability and electrical characteristics of the device.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with a polymetal gate electrode formed by a partial gate recessing process. The method includes the steps of forming a gate structure including a gate dielectric layer, a polysilicon layer, a metal layer, an etch stop layer and a sacrificial layer sequentially formed on a substrate; selectively performing a re-oxidation process to the gate structure; forming a spacer on each sidewall of the gate structure; implanting ions in the substrate for forming source/drain regions; selectively removing the sacrificial layer of the gate structure to form a recess; and filling an insulating hard mask into the recess for use in a self-aligned contact etching process.

Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor device with dual gate dielectric layers and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes: a silicon substrate divided into a cell region where NMOS transistors are formed and a peripheral region where NMOS and PMOS transistors are formed; a targeted silicon oxide layer formed on the silicon substrate in the cell region; an oxynitride layer formed on the silicon substrate in the peripheral region; a first gate structure formed in the cell region; a second gate structure formed on the oxynitride layer in an NMOS region of the peripheral region; and a third gate structure formed on the oxynitride layer in a PMOS region of the peripheral region.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for fabricating a transistor with a polymetal gate electrode structure. The method includes the steps of: forming a gate insulation layer on a substrate; forming a patterned gate stack structure on the gate insulation layer, wherein the patterned stack structure includes a polysilicon layer as a bottom layer and a metal layer as an upper layer; forming a silicon oxide-based capping layer along a profile containing the patterned gate stack structure and on the gate insulation layer at a predetermined temperature that prevents oxidation of the metal layer; and performing a gate re-oxidation process.