Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Junhwan Paik

Gyuhwan Oh

Jinwook Yang

Jiyoon Chung

Yongjin Park

A semiconductor memory device including a substrate; a first conductive line on the substrate and extending in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; a second conductive line extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction; a memory cell between the conductive lines and including a lower electrode pattern, a data storage element, an intermediate electrode pattern, a switching element, and an upper electrode pattern sequentially stacked on the first conductive line; and a sidewall spacer on a side surface of the memory cell, wherein the side surface of the memory cell includes a first concave portion at a side surface of the switching element, and the sidewall spacer includes a first portion on a side surface of the upper electrode pattern, and a second portion on the first concave portion, the second portion being thicker than the first portion.

Semiconductor memory device

A variable resistance memory device includes a first conductive line structure having an adiabatic line therein on a substrate, a variable resistance pattern contacting an upper surface of the first conductive line structure, a low resistance pattern contacting an upper surface of the variable resistance pattern, a selection structure on the low resistance pattern, and a second conductive line on the selection structure.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Junhwan Paik