Three-dimensional memory device containing a pillar contact between channel and source and methods of making the same

    公开(公告)号:US12256542B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-18

    申请号:US17931362

    申请日:2022-09-12

    Abstract: A memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a semiconductor material layer located over the alternating stack, a dielectric spacer layer located over the semiconductor material layer, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, through the semiconductor material layer, and at least partly through the dielectric spacer layer, a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a dielectric core, a vertical semiconductor channel having a hollow portion which surrounds the dielectric core and a pillar portion which does not surround the dielectric core, and a memory film, and a source layer located over the dielectric spacer layer and contacting the pillar portion. In one embodiment, a tubular spacer laterally surrounds the pillar portion, is laterally spaced from the pillar portion by a cylindrical portion of the memory film, and contacts a cylindrical sidewall of the semiconductor material layer.

    Semiconductor die including diffusion barrier layers embedding bonding pads and methods of forming the same

    公开(公告)号:US11450624B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US16888188

    申请日:2020-05-29

    Abstract: Semiconductor devices can be formed over a semiconductor substrate, and interconnect-level dielectric material layers embedding metal interconnect structures can be formed thereupon. In one embodiment, a pad-connection-via-level dielectric material layer, a proximal dielectric diffusion barrier layer, and a pad-level dielectric material layer can be formed. Bonding pads surrounded by dielectric diffusion barrier portions can be formed in the pad-level dielectric material layer. In another embodiment, a layer stack of a proximal dielectric diffusion barrier layer and a pad-and-via-level dielectric material layer can be formed. Integrated pad and via cavities can be formed through the pad-and-via-level dielectric material layer, and can be filled with bonding pads containing dielectric diffusion barrier portions and integrated pad and via structures.

    Bonded three-dimensional memory devices and methods of making the same by replacing carrier substrate with source layer

    公开(公告)号:US11201107B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US16829591

    申请日:2020-03-25

    Abstract: A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a carrier substrate. Memory stack structures vertically extend through the alternating stack. Each memory stack structure includes a respective vertical semiconductor channel and a respective memory film. A pass-through via structure vertically extends through a dielectric material portion that is adjacent to the alternating stack. The memory die can be bonded to a logic die containing peripheral circuitry for supporting operations of memory cells within the memory die. A distal end of each of the vertical semiconductor channels is physically exposed by removing the carrier substrate. A source layer is formed directly on the distal end each of the vertical semiconductor channels. A backside bonding pad or bonding wire is formed to be electrically connected to the pass-through via structure.

    Semiconductor die containing dummy metallic pads and methods of forming the same

    公开(公告)号:US11322466B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-03

    申请号:US16879146

    申请日:2020-05-20

    Inventor: Teruo Okina

    Abstract: A first semiconductor die includes first semiconductor devices located over a first substrate, first interconnect-level dielectric layers embedding first metal interconnect structures and located over the first semiconductor devices, a first pad-level dielectric layer embedding first bonding pads and located over the first interconnect-level dielectric layers, and first edge seal structures laterally surrounding the first semiconductor devices. Each of the first edge seal structures vertically extends from the first substrate to a distal surface of the first pad-level dielectric layer, and includes a respective first pad-level ring structure that continuously extends around the first semiconductor devices. At least one row of first dummy metal pads is embedded in the first pad-level dielectric layer between a respective pair of first edge seal structures. Second pad-level ring structures embedded in a second semiconductor die can be bonded to the rows of first dummy metal pads.

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