Skhynix Inc.

Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Keum Bum Lee

Hyung Suk Lee

Hye Jin Seo

Hiroaki Yoda

Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Tadashi Kai

Masahiko Nakayama

Young Ho Lee

Masaru Toko

Yutaka Hashimoto

Choon Kun Ryu

Jae Geun Oh

Seung Beom Baek

Sook Joo Kim

Su Jin Chae

Min Yong Lee

Min Young Lee

According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive element is disclosed. The magnetoresistive element includes a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer, a storage layer. The storage layer includes a first region and a second region provided outside the first region to surround the first region, the second region including element included in the first region and another element being different from the element. The magnetoresistive element further includes a cap layer including a third region and a fourth region provided outside the third region to surround the third region, the fourth region including an element included in the third region and the another element.

Magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing the same

An access device having a reduced height and capable of suppressing leakage current, a method of fabricating the same, and a semiconductor memory device including the same, are provided. The access device may include a stacked structure including a first-type semiconductor layer having a first dopant, a second-type semiconductor layer having a second dopant, and a third-type semiconductor layer. A first counter-doping layer, having a counter-dopant to the first dopant, is interposed between the first-type semiconductor layer and the third-type semiconductor layer. A second counter-doping layer, having a counter-dopant to the second dopant, is interposed between the third-type semiconductor layer and the second-type semiconductor layer.

Fabrication method of semiconductor memory device

Access device having counter doping layer and semiconductor memory device having the same

The manufacturing of a phase change memory device that includes a switching device, a bottom electrode contact in contact with the switching device and a porous spacer formed on the bottom electrode contact. The formed bottom electrode contact exposes a switching device on a semiconductor substrate which the switching device is formed in, forming an insulating layer on a resultant structure of the semiconductor substrate including the bottom electrode contact by using an insulating compound having materials with different atomic sizes, and forming an insulating spacer within the bottom electrode contact hole by selectively etching the insulating layer.

Phase change memory device and fabrication method thereof

Methods of manufacturing a phase-change memory device and a semiconductor device are provided. The method of manufacturing the phase-change memory device includes forming a switching device layer, an ohmic contact layer, and a hard mask layer on a semiconductor substrate, patterning the hard mask layer to form a hard mask pattern, etching the ohmic layer and the switching layer using the hard mask pattern to form a pattern structure including an ohmic contact pattern, a switching device pattern, and the hard mask pattern, selectively oxidizing a surface of the pattern structure, forming an insulating layer to bury the pattern structure, and selectively removing the hard mask pattern other than the oxidized surface thereof to form a contact hole.

Methods of manufacturing phase-change memory device and semiconductor device

A phase change memory device is presented that has a lower electrode contact that has a gradient resistance profile ranging from a lower resistive lower end to a higher resistive upper end. The phase change memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a lower electrode contact, and a phase change pattern. The semiconductor substrate has a switching device. The lower electrode contact is formed on the switching device and has a specific resistance which gradually increases from a lower part to an upper part of the lower electrode contact. The phase change pattern layer is formed on the lower electrode contact.

Phase change memory device capable of satisfying reset current characteristic and contact resistance characteristic

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Keum Bum Lee