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| 20090050210 | Methods for Operating Liquid Chemical Delivery Systems Having Recycling Elements - Liquid chemical delivery systems are provided which include a liquid chemical storage canister, a pressurized gas source that feeds a pressurized gas into the storage canister, a vaporizer that may be used to vaporize the liquid chemical supplied from the storage canister, a delivery line that connects the storage canister to the vaporizer, a liquid mass flow controller that controls the flow rate of the liquid chemical through the delivery line, a reaction chamber that is connected to the vaporizer, and a liquid chemical recycling element that collects at least some of the chemical flowing through the system during periods when the liquid chemical delivery system is isolated from the reaction chamber. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090096008 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A nonvolatile memory device having a blocking insulating layer with an excellent data retention property and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device may include a semiconductor substrate having a channel region formed therein; and a gate stack including a tunneling insulating layer, a charge storing layer, a blocking insulating layer and a control gate electrode sequentially stacked on the channel region of the semiconductor substrate. The blocking insulating layer may comprise a lanthanum aluminum oxide having a formula of La | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090124070 | Methods of Manufacturing Semiconductor Devices Including Metal Oxide Layers - Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided including forming a charge storage layer on a gate insulating layer that is on a semiconductor substrate. A blocking insulating layer is formed on the charge storage layer and an electrode layer is formed on the blocking insulating layer. The blocking insulating layer may be formed by forming a lower metal oxide layer at a first temperature and forming an upper metal oxide layer on the lower metal oxide layer at a second temperature, lower than the first temperature. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090124071 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: forming a charge storage layer on a substrate on which a gate insulating layer is formed; forming a first metal oxide layer on the charge storage layer using a first reaction source including a metal oxide layer precursor and a first oxidizing agent and changing the first metal oxide layer to a second metal oxide layer using a second reaction source including a second oxidizing agent having larger oxidizing power than the first oxidizing agent and repeating the forming of the first metal oxide layer and the changing of the first metal oxide layer to the second metal oxide layer several times to form a blocking insulating layer; and forming an electrode layer on the blocking insulating layer. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090239367 | Nonvolatile memory device and method of fabricating the same - A method of fabricating a nonvolatile memory device includes forming a tunnel insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a charge storage layer on the tunnel insulating layer, forming a dielectric layer on the charge storage layer, the dielectric layer including a first aluminum oxide layer, a silicon oxide layer, and a second aluminum oxide layer sequentially stacked on the charge storage layer, and forming a gate electrode on the dielectric layer, the gate electrode directly contacting the second aluminum oxide layer of the dielectric layer. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090250741 | Semiconductor device and gate structure having a composite dielectric layer and methods of manufacturing the same - A semiconductor device and/or gate structure having a composite dielectric layer and methods of manufacturing the same is provided. In the semiconductor device, gate structure, and methods provided, a first conductive layer may be formed on a substrate. A native oxide layer formed on the first conductive layer may be removed. A surface of the first conductive layer may be nitrided so that the surface may be altered into a nitride layer. A composite dielectric layer including the first and/or second dielectric layers may be formed on the nitride layer. A second conductive layer may be formed on the composite dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer may include a material having a higher dielectric constant. The second dielectric layer may be capable of suppressing crystallization of the first dielectric layer. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100200907 | Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Device and Method of Fabricating the Same - A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a plurality of isolation regions which are formed within a semiconductor substrate and define active regions. A tunnel layer and a trap seed layer are formed in each of the active regions and are sequentially stacked between the isolation regions. A trap layer is formed on the trap seed layer and protrudes further than a top surface of each of the isolation regions. A blocking layer is formed on the trap layer. A gate electrode is formed on the blocking layer. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20110001183 | Memory device and method of fabricating the same - A memory device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The memory device includes a tunneling dielectric layer on a substrate, a charge storage layer on the tunneling dielectric layer, a blocking dielectric layer on the charge storage layer, the blocking dielectric layer including a first dielectric layer having silicon oxide, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and having aluminum silicate, and a third dielectric layer formed on the second dielectric layer and having aluminum oxide, and an upper electrode on the blocking dielectric layer. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110101438 | Nonvolatile Memory Devices Having Gate Structures Therein with Improved Blocking Layers - Nonvolatile memory devices include a tunnel insulating layer on a substrate and a charge storing layer on the tunnel insulating layer. A charge transfer blocking layer is provided on the charge storing layer. The charge transfer blocking layer is formed as a composite of multiple layers, which include a first oxide layer having a thickness of about 1 Å to about 10 Å. This first oxide layer is formed directly on the charge storing layer. The charge transfer blocking layer includes a first dielectric layer on the first oxide layer. The charge transfer blocking layer also includes a second oxide layer on the first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer on the second oxide layer. The first and second dielectric layers have a higher dielectric constant relative to the first and second oxide layers, respectively. The memory cell includes an electrically conductive electrode on the charge transfer blocking layer. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110159680 | METHOD OF FORMING A DIELECTRIC LAYER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - In a method of forming an aluminum oxide layer, an aluminum source gas and a dilution gas can be supplied into a chamber through a common gas supply nozzle so that the aluminum source gas may be adsorbed on a substrate in the chamber. A first purge gas can be supplied into the chamber to purge the physically adsorbed aluminum source gas from the substrate. An oxygen source gas may be supplied into the chamber to form an aluminum oxide layer on the substrate. A second purge gas may be supplied into the chamber to purge a reaction residue and the physically adsorbed remaining gas from the substrate. The operations can be performed repeatedly to form an aluminum oxide layer having a desired thickness. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110165750 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES INCLUDING STRUCTURES - In methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a plurality of gate structures spaced apart from each other and oxide layer patterns. A sputtering process using the oxide layer patterns as a sputtering target to connect the oxide layer patterns on the adjacent gate structures to each other is performed, so that a gap is formed between the gate structures. A volume of the gap is formed uniformly to have desired volume by controlling a thickness of the oxide layer patterns. | 07-07-2011 |
