Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sunghan Cho

Shinhwan Kang

Young-Jin Jung

A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including a cell array region and a pad region, a stack structure disposed on the cell array region and the pad region of the substrate and including gate electrodes, a device isolation layer vertically overlapping the stack structure and disposed in the pad region of the substrate, a dummy vertical channel portion penetrating the stack structure on the pad region of the substrate and disposed in the device isolation layer, and a dummy semiconductor pillar disposed between the dummy vertical channel portion and one portion of the substrate being in contact with one sidewall of the device isolation layer.

Semiconductor memory device

A stack structure including a plurality of gate electrodes is vertically stacked on a substrate and extends in a first direction. A channel structure includes vertical channels penetrating the stack structure and a horizontal channel connecting the vertical channels. The horizontal channel are provided under the stack structure. First lower wiring patterns are disposed between the substrate and the stack structure and electrically connected to the channel structure. Each first lower wiring pattern includes a first portion and a second portion having different widths from each other in the first direction.

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Sunghan Cho