United Microelectronics Corp.

Shu-Hung Yu

Chuan-Fu Wang

Chun-Hung Cheng

Sheng-Yuan Hsueh

Yi-Chung Sheng

Chih-Kai Kang

Wen-Kai Lin

Kuo-Yu Liao

Hsiang-Hung Peng

Hsin-Hsien Chen

Hung-Hsu Lin

Ping-Chia Shih

Chi-Cheng Huang

Kuo-Lung Li

Chih-Hao Pan

Chih-Yao Wang

Zi-Jun Liu

An-Hsiu Cheng

Chia-Hui Huang

A resistive memory device is provided. The resistive memory device includes a first electrode, a memory structure on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the memory structure. The memory structure includes a tubular element and a pillar element. The tubular element includes oxide. The pillar element includes oxide. The pillar element is surrounded by the tubular element. The tubular element and the pillar element include different materials.

Resistive memory device and method for manufacturing the same

A resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device, including a bottom electrode, a high work function layer, a resistive material layer and a top electrode sequentially stacked on a substrate, wherein the resistive material layer includes a bottom part and a top part, first spacers covering sidewalls of the top part and the top electrode, and second spacers covering sidewalls of the bottom part, thereby constituting a RRAM cell.

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device and forming method thereof

A resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device includes a bottom electrode, a high work function layer, a resistive material layer, a top electrode and high work function spacers. The bottom electrode, the high work function layer, the resistive material layer and the top electrode are sequentially stacked on a substrate, wherein the resistive material layer includes a bottom part and a top part. The high work function spacers cover sidewalls of the bottom part, thereby constituting a RRAM cell. The present invention also provides a method of forming a RRAM device.

A ReRAM device includes a dielectric layer, a bottom electrode, a data storage layer, a metal covering layer, and a top electrode. The dielectric layer has a recess. At least a portion of the bottom electrode is exposed through the recess. The data storage layer is disposed on a sidewall and a bottom surface of the recess, electrically contacts with the bottom electrode, and has a top portion lower than an opening of the recess. The metal covering layer blanket covers the data storage layer, has an extension portion covering the top portion, and connects to the sidewall of the recess. The top electrode is disposed in the recess, and is electrically contact with the metal covering layer.

Resistive random-access memory and method for fabricating the same

A mark pattern includes unit cells immediately adjacent to each other and arranged in a form of dot matrix to form a register mark or an identification code, wherein each unit cell has configuration identical to functional devices of pMOS and nMOS, and each unit cell includes a first active region, a second active region isolated from the first active region, and first gate structures extending along a first direction and are arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first gate structures straddling the first active region and the second active region, contact structures disposed between the first gate structures on the first active region and the second active region, and via structures disposed on the contact structures and two opposite ends of the first gate structures.

Mark pattern in semiconductor device

A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a plurality of chip areas and a scribe line defined thereon, and a mark pattern disposed in the scribe line. The mark pattern includes a plurality of unit cells immediately adjacent to each other, and each unit cell includes a first active region, a second active region isolated from the first active region, a plurality of first gate structures extending along a first direction and arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a plurality of first conductive structures. The first gate structures straddle the first active region and the second active region. The first conductive structures are disposed on the first active region, the second active region, and two opposite sides of the first gate structures.

Semiconductor device

A method of forming a capacitor includes the following steps. First, a substrate is provided. A dielectric layer is formed over the substrate. A first patterning process is performed to form a first contact plug through the whole thickness of the dielectric layer and a second patterning process is performed to form a second contact plug in the dielectric layer and spaced apart from the first contact plug in a pre-determined distance, wherein the first contact plug and the second contact plug are capacitively coupled.

Intra-metal capacitor and method of forming the same

A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, having a plurality of cell regions, wherein the cell regions are parallel and extending along a first direction. A plurality of STI structures is disposed in the substrate, extending along the first direction to isolate the cell regions, wherein the STI structures have a uniform height lower than the substrate in the cell regions. A selection gate line is extending along a second direction and crossing over the cell regions and the STI structures. A control gate line is adjacent to the selection gate line in parallel extending along the second direction and also crosses over the cell regions and the STI structures. The selection gate line and the control gate line together form a two-transistor (2T) memory cell.

Semiconductor memory device and fabrication method thereof

An intra-metal capacitor is provided. The intra-metal capacitor is formed in a dielectric layer and comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode penetrate through the whole thickness of the dielectric layer, and the second electrode does not penetrate through the whole thickness of the dielectric layer.

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