The invention discloses a method for preparing a
metal silicide, a
semiconductor device and a preparation method of the
semiconductor device. The method comprises the steps that a substrate, a gate structure and a substrate
protection layer are prepared, the substrate
protection layer is located in an active area of the substrate, and the gate structure comprises a
metal work function layer used for regulating and controlling gate
threshold voltage and a gate
protection layer used for protecting the gate structure which are sequentially arranged from bottom to top;
etching the substrate protection layer through
etching gas by using a
contact hole process to form a first
contact hole of which the bottom is positioned in the active region; and forming a
metal silicide in the active region by taking the first
contact hole as a reaction window. Through the scheme of the embodiment of the invention, the working procedures of a grid side wall thickening process and a wet-method grid side
wall thinning process can be simplified, so that the problem that holes appear in the interlayer insulating
dielectric layer is solved, the risk of device bridging is reduced, and meanwhile, the reliability of the device is improved. And the damage to the
metal silicide and the gate structure caused by chemical liquid
medicine used in a wet-method gate side
wall thinning process can be avoided, so that the risks of poor contact and failure of the device are reduced.