This application discloses a spin-coating carbon composition, a semiconductor fabrication method, and a semiconductor device. The spin-coating carbon composition comprises a cyclic phenolic resin. The cyclic phenolic resin used in this invention has the characteristics of small molecular weight, narrow molecular weight distribution, and active crosslinking groups distributed on the resin periphery. The spin-coating carbon composition based on the cyclic phenolic resin of this invention, while maintaining excellent coating performance, can significantly improve the thermal stability, etching resistance, and pattern fidelity of the thin film, providing a new generation of hard mask materials for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.