Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jin-Shi Zhao

In-gyu Baek

Hyun-Jun Sim

Eun-Kyung Yim

Jang-Eun Lee

Min-Young Park

Se-Chung Oh

Hong-Sik Yoon

Kyung-tae Nam

Minyoung Park

Ingyu Baek

Hyunjun Sim

HongSik Yoon

Xiang-Shu Li

A nonvolatile memory device includes a bottom electrode on a semiconductor substrate, a data storage layer on the bottom electrode, the data storage layer including a transition metal oxide, and a switching layer provided on a top surface and/or a bottom surface of the data storage layer, wherein a bond energy of material included in the switching layer and oxygen is more than a bond energy of a transition metal in the transition metal oxide and oxygen.

Nonvolatile memory devices and methods of forming the same

A nonvolatile memory device, a method of fabricating the nonvolatile memory device and a processing system including the nonvolatile memory device. The nonvolatile memory device may include a plurality of internal electrodes that extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to a face of a substrate, a plurality of first external electrodes that extend substantially in parallel with the face of the substrate, and a plurality of second external electrodes that also extend substantially in parallel with the face of the substrate. Each first external electrode is on a first side of a respective one of the internal electrodes, and each second external electrode is on a second side of a respective one of the internal electrodes. These devices also include a plurality of variable resistors that contact the internal electrodes, the first external electrodes and the second external electrodes.

Nonvolatile memory devices that use resistance materials and internal electrodes

A variable resistance memory device includes a variable resistance memory cell, and a by-pass circuit configured to electrically by-pass a programming pulse supplied to the variable resistance memory cell after a resistive state of the variable resistance memory cell has changed in response to the programming pulse.

Variable resistance memory devices and methods of programming variable resistance memory devices

Multi-level nonvolatile memory devices using variable resistive elements, the multi-level nonvolatile memory devices including a word line, a bit line, and a multi-level memory cell coupled between the word line and the bit line, the multi-level memory cell having first resistance level and a second resistance level higher than the first resistance level when the first and second write biases having the same polarity are applied thereto, and a third resistance level and a fourth resistance level ranging between the first and second resistance levels, when third and fourth write biases having different polarities from each other are applied thereto.

Multi-level nonvolatile memory devices using variable resistive elements

Provided is a resistance random access memory device and a method of fabricating, the same. The method includes forming a bit-line stack in which a plurality of local bit-lines are vertically stacked on a substrate, forming a word-line including a plurality of local word-lines that extend in a vertical direction toward a side of the bit-line stack and a connection line that extends in a horizontal direction to connect the plurality of local word-lines with one another, and forming a resistance memory thin film between the bit-line stack and the word-line. The present inventive concept can realize a highly dense memory array with 3D cross-point architecture by simplified processes.

Resistance-type random access memory device having three-dimensional bit line and word line patterning

Nonvolatile memory devices that use resistance materials and internal electrodes, and related methods and processing systems

Provided is a semiconductor device including a resistive memory element. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and the resistive memory element disposed on the substrate. The resistive memory element has resistance states of a plurality of levels according to generation and dissipation of at least one platinum bridge therein.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jin-Shi Zhao