Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dongseog Eun

Joonhee Lee

Jongwon Kim

Kwangyoung Jung

Youngjin Kwon

Young-Ho Lee

Seok-Won Lee

Yoocheol Shin

Kangmin Kim

Giyong Chung

Jaehyung Kim

Soyeon Kim

Seungmin Song

Seong Soon Cho

Geunwon Lim

Byeong-In Choe

Jaehoon Shin

Byoungil Lee

Young-Bae Yoon

Eunsuk Cho

Gihwan Kim

Jongheun Lim

Hansol Seok

Kyung-Jun Shin

Changsun Hwang

Sangjae Lee

Seokhwa Jung

Hyunkook Lee

Hanyoung Lee

Jibong Park

A vertical-type nonvolatile memory device has a multi-stack structure with reduced susceptibility to mis-alignment of a vertical channel layer. This nonvolatile memory device includes: (i) a main chip area including a cell area and an extension area arranged to have a stepped structure, with the cell area and the extension area formed in a multi-stack structure, and (ii) an outer chip area, which surrounds the main chip area and includes a step key therein. The main chip area includes a first layer on a substrate and a second layer on the first layer. A lower vertical channel layer is arranged in the first layer. The step key includes an alignment vertical channel layer, and a top surface of the alignment vertical channel layer is lower than a top surface of the lower vertical channel layer.

Vertical non-volatile memory devices having a multi-stack structure with enhanced photolithographic alignment characteristics

A semiconductor chip includes a substrate, a source structure disposed on the substrate, and a support pattern disposed on the source structure. Each of the source structure and the support pattern includes polysilicon. The semiconductor chip further includes an electrode structure disposed on the support pattern, and a plurality of vertical structures extending vertically through the electrode structure. The electrode structure includes a lower electrode structure disposed on the support pattern and including a plurality of lower gate electrodes and a plurality of first insulating films, a second insulating film disposed on the lower electrode structure, and an upper electrode structure disposed on the second insulating film and including a plurality of upper gate electrodes and a plurality of third insulating films. The vertical structures contact the source structure above the source structure.

Semiconductor chip and semiconductor device including the same

A semiconductor device includes a first substrate; devices on the first substrate; a second substrate on the devices; gate electrodes stacked on the second substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction; channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes, extending in the first direction, and including a channel layer; isolation regions penetrating the gate electrodes and extending in a second direction; a through contact plug penetrating the second substrate, extending in the first direction, and electrically connecting the gate electrodes to the devices; a barrier structure spaced apart from the through contact plug and surrounding the through contact plug; and a support structure on the gate electrodes and including support patterns, wherein the support structure has first through regions spaced apart from each other in the second direction on the isolation regions and a second through region in contact with an upper surface of the barrier structure.

Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same

An integrated circuit device includes: a substrate having a cell region, a peripheral circuit region, and an interconnection region between the cell region and the peripheral circuit region; a first cell stack structure and a second cell stack structure on the first cell stack structure, each including a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of word line structures alternately stacked on the substrate; and a dummy stack structure located at a same vertical level as the second cell stack structure, and including a plurality of dummy insulating layers and a plurality of dummy support layers alternately stacked in the peripheral circuit region.

Integrated circuit device including vertical memory device

A semiconductor device includes an upper stack structure extending on a lower stack structure, which extends on an underlying substrate. A channel structure extends through the upper stack structure and the lower stack structure. The lower stack structure includes a first lower electrode layer disposed adjacent to an interface between the lower stack structure and the upper stack structure, and a second lower electrode layer disposed adjacent a center of the lower stack structure. The upper stack structure includes a first upper electrode layer disposed adjacent to the interface, and a second upper electrode layer disposed adjacent a center of the upper stack structure. At least one of the first lower electrode layer and the first upper electrode layer is thicker than the second lower electrode layer. At least one insulating layer is disposed between the first lower electrode layer and the first upper electrode layer.

Semiconductor memory devices having stacked structures therein that support high integration

Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a stack structure including conductive layers stacked on the substrate. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a dummy structure penetrating a stepped region of the stack structure. A portion of the dummy structure includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment extends in a first direction in a plane parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. The second segment protrudes from the first segment in a second direction, in the plane, that intersects the first direction.

Semiconductor devices

A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, an electrode structure including electrodes vertically stacked on the substrate and each having a pad portion, electrode separation structures penetrating the electrode structure and apart from each other in a second direction, and contact plugs coupled to the pad portions. The contact plugs comprise first contact plugs and second contact plugs apart in the second direction from the first contact plugs. The electrode separation structures comprise a first electrode separation between the first and second contact plugs. The first contact plugs are apart in the second direction at a first distance from the first electrode separation structure. The second contact plugs are apart in the second direction from the first electrode separation structure at a second distance, different from the first distance.

Three dimensional semiconductor memory devices

A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate electrodes stacked on a substrate in a direction normal to a top surface of the substrate, a channel structure passing through the gate electrodes and connected to the substrate, and a void disposed in the substrate and positioned below the channel structure.

Three-dimensional semiconductor devices

An erase method of a nonvolatile memory device includes applying an erase voltage to a substrate; sensing a temperature of a memory cell array; setting a delay time based on the temperature of the memory cell array, wherein the delay time starts in response to the erase voltage being applied to the substrate; applying a ground voltage to a ground selection line connected to a ground selection transistor during the delay time; and increasing a voltage of the ground selection line after the delay time.

Nonvolatile memory device and an erasing method thereof

Provided are methods of forming a stack of electrodes and three-dimensional semiconductor devices fabricated thereby. The device may include electrodes sequentially stacked on a substrate to constitute an electrode structure. each of the electrodes may include a connection portion protruding horizontally and outward from a sidewall of one of the electrodes located thereon and an aligned portion having a sidewall coplanar with that of one of the electrodes located thereon or thereunder. Here, at least two of the electrodes provided vertically adjacent to each other may be provided in such a way that the aligned portions thereof have sidewalls that are substantially aligned to be coplanar with each other.

Methods of forming a stack of electrodes and three-dimensional semiconductor devices fabricated thereby

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