Patent 7833902 was granted and assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a contact pad in a first interlayer insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, a contact hole in a second interlayer insulating layer on the first interlayer insulating layer, selectively exposing the contact pad, a contact spacer on internal walls of the contact hole, a first contact plug connected to the contact pad exposed by the contact hole having the contact spacer on the internal walls thereof, the first contact plug partially filling the contact hole, a metal silicide layer on a surface of the first contact plug, and a second contact plug on the metal silicide layer and partially filling the remaining portion of the contact hole.