Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Habin Lim

Sangwon Kim

Jeeyong Kim

Subin Shin

Seunghui Hong

A peripheral circuit structure may include peripheral circuits and peripheral circuit lines on a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer including cell array and connection regions on the peripheral circuit structure, a stack including electrodes stacked on the semiconductor layer having a stepwise structure on the connection region, and a planarization insulating layer covering the stack, vertical structures on the cell array region penetrating the stack, including a data storage pattern, a dam group including insulating dams on the connection region penetrating the stack, penetration plugs penetrating the insulating dams and connected to respective peripheral circuit lines, the dam group including a first insulating dam farthest from the cell array region, the first insulating dam including first and second sidewall portions spaced apart, a difference between upper and lower thicknesses of the second sidewall portion of the first insulating dam is larger than that of the first sidewall portion.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Habin Lim