THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF USING DOUBLE PITCH WORD LINE FORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220406793A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17351756

    申请日:2021-06-18

    摘要: A vertical repetition of multiple instances of a unit layer stack is formed over a substrate. The unit layer stack includes an insulating layer and a sacrificial material layer. Lateral recesses are formed by removing the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers. Each lateral recess is sequentially fill with at least one conductive fill material and an insulating fill material, and vertically-extending portions of the at least one conductive fill material are removed such that a vertical layer stack including a first-type electrically conductive layer, a seamed insulating layer, and a second-type electrically conductive layer are formed in each lateral recess. Memory opening fill structures including a respective vertical stack of memory elements is formed through the insulating layers and the layer stacks. Access points for providing an etchant for removing the sacrificial material layers may be provided by memory openings, contact via cavities or backside trenches.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEPOSITING A MULTI-SECTOR FILM ON BACKSIDE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER

    公开(公告)号:US20210388500A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-16

    申请号:US16897679

    申请日:2020-06-10

    摘要: A patterned backside stress compensation film having different stress in different sectors is formed on a backside of a substrate to reduce combination warpage of the substrate. The film can be formed by employing a radio frequency electrode assembly including plurality of conductive plates that are biased with different RF power and cause local variations in the plasma employed to deposit the backside film. Alternatively, the film may be deposited with uniform stress, and some of its sectors are irradiated with ultraviolet radiation to change the stress of these irradiated sectors. Yet alternatively, multiple backside deposition processes may be sequentially employed to deposit different backside films to provide a composite backside film having different stresses in different sectors.

    THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING OFFSET COLUMN STAIRS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20190221574A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-18

    申请号:US15956139

    申请日:2018-04-18

    摘要: A three-dimensional NAND memory string includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and word line layers extending in a word line direction, a memory array region in the alternating stack containing memory stack structures, a group of more than two column stairs located in the alternating stack and extending in the word line direction from one side of the memory array region, and bit lines electrically contacting the vertical semiconductor channels and extending in a bit line direction which is perpendicular to the word line direction. Each column stair of the group of N column stairs has a respective step in a first vertical plane which extends in the bit line direction, and the respective steps in the first vertical plane decrease and then increase from one end column stair to another end column stair.

    THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF USING DOUBLE PITCH WORD LINE FORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20220406720A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17351811

    申请日:2021-06-18

    摘要: A vertical repetition of multiple instances of a unit layer stack is formed over a substrate. The unit layer stack includes an insulating layer and a sacrificial material layer. Lateral recesses are formed by removing the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers. Each lateral recess is sequentially fill with at least one conductive fill material and an insulating fill material, and vertically-extending portions of the at least one conductive fill material are removed such that a vertical layer stack including a first-type electrically conductive layer, a seamed insulating layer, and a second-type electrically conductive layer are formed in each lateral recess. Memory opening fill structures including a respective vertical stack of memory elements is formed through the insulating layers and the layer stacks. Access points for providing an etchant for removing the sacrificial material layers may be provided by memory openings, contact via cavities or backside trenches.