United Microelectronics Corp.

Ting-Hsiang Huang

Sheng-Yuan Hsueh

Kuo-Hsing Lee

Yi-Chung Sheng

Chih-Kai Kang

Jiunn-Hsiung Liao

Chih-Wei Kuo

Yu-Tsung Lai

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region and a logic region, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MTJ region and a first metal interconnection on the MTJ. Preferably, a top view of the MTJ includes a circle and a top view of the first metal interconnection includes an ellipse overlapping the circle.

Magnetoresistive random access memory

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region and a logic region, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MTJ region, and a first metal interconnection on the MTJ. Preferably, a top view of the MTJ includes a circle, a top view of the first metal interconnection includes a flat oval overlapping the circle, and the MTJ includes a bottom electrode, a fixed layer, a free layer, a capping layer, and a top electrode.

A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes two magnetic tunnel junction elements and a metal interconnection. The two magnetic tunnel junction elements are arranged side by side at a first direction. The metal interconnection is disposed between the magnetic tunnel junction elements, wherein the metal interconnection includes a contact plug part having a long shape at a top view, and the long shape has a length at a second direction larger than a width at the first direction, wherein the second direction is orthogonal to the first direction.

Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device

A semiconductor device includes: a substrate having a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region and a logic region; a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MTJ region, wherein a top view of the MTJ comprises a circle; and a first metal interconnection on the MTJ. Preferably, a top view of the first metal interconnection comprises a flat oval overlapping the circle.

An embedded MRAM structure includes a substrate divided into a memory cell region and a logic device region. An active area is disposed in the memory cell region. A word line is disposed on the substrate and crosses the active area. A source plug is disposed in the active area and at one side of the word line. A drain plug is disposed in the in the active area and at another side of the word line. When viewing from a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate and taking the word line as a symmetric axis, the source plug is a mirror image of the drain plug.

Embedded MRAM structure and method of fabricating the same

A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) includes device strings coupled in parallel, each comprising magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) coupled in serial, wherein a quantity of the MTJs of each of the device strings is equal to a quantity of the device strings, and an equivalent resistance (R) of the MTJs is equal to an average of the sum of a high resistance of one of the MTJs and a low resistance of another MTJ.

Magnetoresistive random access memory wherein number of memory cells in each string is equal to number of strings connected in parallel

A semiconductor device includes: a dummy gate on a substrate; a first control gate on one side of the dummy gate and a second control gate on another side of the dummy gate; a well in the substrate, wherein the well comprises a first conductive type; a first source/drain region between the dummy gate and the first control gate, wherein the first source/drain region comprises a second conductive type; a second source/drain region between the dummy gate and the second control gate, wherein the second source/drain region comprises the second conductive type; and a doped region directly under the dummy gate, wherein the doped region comprises the first conductive type.

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