摘要 |
A metal contact structure of a semiconductor device and a method for forming the same, wherein an upper conductive layer is formed by etching a metal layer, which fills a contact hole and is formed on the entire surface of an interlayer dielectric film and etching is stopped when barrier metal layers under the metal layer is exposed. Then, after forming spacers on the sidewalls of an upper conductive layer, the barrier metal layers (a barrier layer and an ohmic layer) are removed using the spacers as etching masks. Therefore, it is possible to prevent problems due to etch mask misalignment, such as 1) an etching gas of the metal layer permeating through the ohmic layer and 2) defects such as contact resistance changes that occur when spacers cover a contact hole even though the upper conductive layer does not completely cover that contact hole.
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