THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICES, METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220216151A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-07

    申请号:US17537744

    申请日:2021-11-30

    Abstract: Disclosed are three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices, electronic systems including the same, and methods of fabricating the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including a cell array region and an extension region, a peripheral circuit structure including peripheral transistors on the substrate, a stack structure including interlayer dielectric layers and gate electrodes that are alternately stacked on the peripheral circuit structure, contacts that penetrate the stack structure on the extension region and are electrically connected with the peripheral transistors and include a protruding part contacting a sidewall of one of the gate electrodes and a vertical part penetrating the stack structure, and dielectric patterns between the vertical part and respective sidewalls of the gate electrodes. Top and bottom surfaces of each of the dielectric patterns are respectively in contact with adjacent ones of the interlayer dielectric layers.

    Vertical memory devices
    22.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11289507B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-29

    申请号:US16853047

    申请日:2020-04-20

    Abstract: A vertical memory device including gate electrodes on a substrate, the gate electrodes being spaced apart in a first direction and stacked in a staircase arrangement; a channel extending through the gate electrodes in the first direction; a first contact plug extending through a pad of a first gate electrode to contact an upper surface of the first gate electrode, the first contact plug extending through a portion of a second gate electrode, and the second gate electrode being adjacent to the first gate electrode; a first spacer between the first contact plug and sidewalls of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode facing the first contact plug, the first spacer electrically insulating the first contact plug from the second gate electrode; and a first burying pattern contacting bottom surfaces of the first contact plug and the first spacer, the first burying pattern including an insulating material.

    Vertical semiconductor devices
    23.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11121151B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-14

    申请号:US16562919

    申请日:2019-09-06

    Abstract: A vertical semiconductor device may include a stacked structure and a plurality of channel structures. The stacked structure may include insulation layers and gate patterns alternately and repeatedly stacked on a substrate. The stacked structure may extend in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. The gate patterns may include at least ones of first gate patterns. The stacked structure may include a sacrificial pattern between the first gate patterns. The channel structures may pass through the stacked structure. Each of the channel structures may extend to the upper surface of the substrate, and each of the channel structures may include a charge storage structure and a channel. Ones of the channel structures may pass through the sacrificial pattern in the stacked structure to the upper surface of the substrate, and may extend to the upper surface of the substrate.

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