Patent ID: 7033955

Claim:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of: forming a conductive layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a hard mask nitride film on the conductive layer via a first PE-CVD process using a mixture gas including SiH 4 and NH 3 /N 2 ; patterning the hard mask nitride film and the conductive layer to form a bit line; forming a spacer nitride film on an entire surface of the semiconductor substrate via a second PE-CVD process using a mixture gas including dichlorosilane and NH 3 /N 2 ; and etching the spacer nitride film using a fluorine base gas to form a nitride spacer on a sidewall of the bit line, wherein the etching rate of the spacer nitride film by the fluorine base gas is higher than that of the hard mask nitride film so that the loss of the hard mask nitride film is minimized during the etching process for the spacer nitride film.