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公开(公告)号:US12288755B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-29
申请号:US17807266
申请日:2022-06-16
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Koichi Matsuno
Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a dielectric moat fill structure that includes a nested structure including, from outside to inside, an outer dielectric liner having a first Young's modulus, an outer material layer having a second Young's modulus greater than the first Young's modulus, a dielectric fill material portion, an inner material layer having the second Young's modulus, and an inner dielectric liner having the first Young's modulus, a vertically alternating sequence of insulating plates and dielectric material plates at least partially laterally surrounded by the dielectric moat fill structure, and an interconnection via structure vertically extending the vertically alternating sequence.
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公开(公告)号:US12288719B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-29
申请号:US17659057
申请日:2022-04-13
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Takuya Maehara
IPC: H01L21/78 , H01L23/00 , H01L25/00 , H01L25/065 , H01L25/18
Abstract: A method includes forming an etch stop material layer and a planar sacrificial spacer layer over a front surface of a first substrate, forming an insulating encapsulation layer over the planar sacrificial spacer layer and on a backside surface and a side surface of the first substrate, forming a continuous structure including first semiconductor devices over a top surface of the insulating encapsulation layer, etching inter-die trenches within the continuous structure to divide the continuous structure, bonding the divided continuous structure to second semiconductor devices located over a second substrate, selectively removing the planar sacrificial spacer layer by performing a wet etch process in which an isotropic etchant is introduced into the inter-die trenches, and detaching the first substrate from an assembly of the second substrate, the second semiconductor devices, and the divided continuous structure after the removing the planar sacrificial spacer layer.
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公开(公告)号:US12288586B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-29
申请号:US17952857
申请日:2022-09-26
Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
Inventor: Ramy Nashed Bassely Said , Jiahui Yuan , Lito De La Rama
Abstract: To reduce data disturbs and lower current requirements of a 3D NAND memory die, a multi-block plane of non-volatile memory cells has its source line separated into multiple source line regions by introduction of isolation trenches. The plane structure for the NAND memory is maintained, but is broken into multi-block sub-planes, each with an independently biasable source line.
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公开(公告)号:US12279425B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-15
申请号:US17411726
申请日:2021-08-25
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Kenichi Shimomura
IPC: H10B43/27 , H01L23/522 , H01L23/528 , H10B41/10 , H10B41/27 , H10B41/35 , H10B43/10 , H10B43/35
Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and memory opening fill structures vertically extending through the alternating stack. An insulating liner overlies stepped surfaces of the alternating stack in a staircase region. A plurality of discrete dielectric plates can be formed over the insulating liner. In one embodiment, the plurality of discrete dielectric plates can function as etch stop structures for formation of contact via structures that contact underlying portions of the electrically conductive layers. In another embodiment, the plurality of discrete dielectric plates may be replaced with a metallic material that forms extensions of the electrically conductive layers, and can be employed as etch stop structures during formation of contact via structures.
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公开(公告)号:US12267998B2
公开(公告)日:2025-04-01
申请号:US17543987
申请日:2021-12-07
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Rahul Sharangpani , Raghuveer S. Makala , Kartik Sondhi , Ramy Nashed Bassely Said , Senaka Kanakamedala
Abstract: A memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and comprising a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film. The memory film includes a contoured blocking dielectric layer including sac-shaped lateral protrusions located at levels of the electrically conductive layers, a tunneling dielectric layer in contact with the vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of charge storage material portions located within volumes enclosed by the sac-shaped lateral protrusions.
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公开(公告)号:US12255242B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-18
申请号:US17587470
申请日:2022-01-28
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Adarsh Rajashekhar , Raghuveer S. Makala , Koichi Matsuno
IPC: H01L29/423 , H01L21/28 , H01L29/792 , H10B43/27
Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical semiconductor channel, a memory film in contact with the vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of tubular dielectric spacers laterally surrounding the memory film. The tubular dielectric spacers may include tubular graded silicon oxynitride portions having a composition gradient such that an atomic concentration of nitrogen decreases with a lateral distance from an outer sidewall of the memory film, or may include tubular composite dielectric spacers including a respective tubular silicon oxide spacer and a respective tubular dielectric metal oxide spacer. Each of the electrically conductive layers has a hammerhead-shaped vertical cross-sectional profile.
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公开(公告)号:US12254931B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-18
申请号:US17845060
申请日:2022-06-21
Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
Inventor: Xiang Yang , Deepanshu Dutta , Jiacen Guo , Takayuki Inoue , Hua-Ling Hsu
Abstract: An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of memory cells, logic circuits coupled to the memory cells and configured to store 4-bit data in each of the memory cells, and a control circuit coupled to the memory cells and the logic circuits. The control circuit configured to cause the logic circuits to store 3-bit data in each of the memory cells.
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公开(公告)号:US12249378B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-11
申请号:US17666810
申请日:2022-02-08
Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
Inventor: Yu-Chung Lien , Deepanshu Dutta , Sarath Puthenthermadam , Jiahui Yuan
Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor memory device, described herein, comprises a bit line, a source line, a memory string comprising a plurality of memory cells connected in series between the source line and the bit line, and control circuitry coupled to the plurality of memory cells, the source line, and the bit line. The control circuitry is configured to: determine if a program operation is a single-bit program operation or multi-bit program operation; in response to the determination, identify a voltage level to set the source line to during performance of the program operation; and perform the program operation on the memory string, the program operation including setting the source line to the voltage level.
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公开(公告)号:US12230335B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-18
申请号:US17838717
申请日:2022-06-13
Applicant: SanDisk Technologies LLC
Inventor: Toru Miwa , Fumiaki Toyama
Abstract: A multi-stage method for programming an n-bit memory cell array using a fixed number of data latches is disclosed. The fixed number of data latches may be a reduced number of data latches in sense amplifier and data latch (SADL) peripheral circuitry than is required by existing programming techniques. As such, the die area taken up by the SADL circuitry can be reduced, which in turn, reduces overall chip area. The multi-stage programming method may include utilizing a first data latch to receive and store program page data and utilizing a second data latch to store bit information indicating which cells are to be targeted for the multi-stage programming. At each program stage, a respective program loop may be performed with respect to each threshold voltage distribution generated during a prior program stage to create two new threshold voltage distributions from the prior distribution.
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公开(公告)号:US12219756B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US17664550
申请日:2022-05-23
Applicant: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Inventor: Peter Rabkin , Masaaki Higashitani
Abstract: A memory device includes at least one instance of a unit layer stack including a source layer, a channel-containing layer that contains a semiconductor channel, and a drain layer that are stacked along a vertical direction over a substrate; a memory opening vertically extending through the at least one instance of the unit layer stack; and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a control gate electrode and a memory film in contact with each instance of the semiconductor channel. The memory film includes a resonant tunneling barrier stack, a barrier layer, and a memory material layer located between the resonant tunneling barrier stack and the barrier layer.
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