Kioxia Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Memory Corporation

Tomoya Inden

Kimitoshi Okano

Shigehiro Yamakita

Katsuyuki Kitamoto

Kiyoshi Okuyama

Tsuneo Uenaka

According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first silicon substrate, a second silicon substrate, and a memory cell array. A first CMOS circuit is formed on the first silicon substrate. The second silicon substrate is provided above the first silicon substrate in a stacking direction. A second CMOS circuit is formed on the second silicon substrate. The memory cell array is provided above the second silicon substrate in the stacking direction. The memory cell array is connected to the first CMOS circuit and the second CMOS circuit and includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in the stacking direction of the first silicon substrate and the second silicon substrate.

Memory device with memory array connected to circuits in different stacked substrates

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes: a first well region of N-type and a second well region of P-type; a PMOS transistor provided in the first well region; and an NMOS transistor provided in the second well region. The PMOS transistor includes a first gate insulating layer and a first gate electrode. The NMOS transistor includes a second gate insulating layer and a second gate electrode. The first gate electrode includes a first semiconductor layer of P-type, a first insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The second gate electrode includes a second semiconductor layer of N-type, a second insulating layer, and a second conductive layer. A film thickness of the first insulating layer is thicker than a film thickness of the second insulating layer.

Method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device with a low voltage transistor

A semiconductor device includes a substrate. A gate insulating film is formed on the surface of the substrate. A first gate electrode layer is formed on the gate insulating film. A second gate electrode layer is formed on the first gate electrode layer and electrically connected to the first gate electrode layer. A first contact extends through the second gate electrode layer to reach the first gate electrode layer. First and second impurity layers are formed on opposite sides of the first and second gate electrode layers.

Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof

A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a first conductor layer, and a first insulator layer. The substrate includes a first region on which memory cells are provided, a second region on which a control circuit of the memory cells is provided, and a third region separating the first region and the second region. The first conductor layer is above the second region of the substrate. The first insulator layer is above the second and third regions of the substrate. The first insulator layer includes a first portion that is above the first conductor layer and extends along a surface direction of the substrate, and a second portion that is continuous with the first portion and extends along a thickness direction of the substrate from the first portion toward a surface of the substrate in the third region.

Vertical memory device having an insulator layer for improved yield

Semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device with improved diffusion suppression

A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, first conductor layers, second conductor layers, a third conductor layer, and an insulator layer. The substrate includes a first region, a second region, and a third region separating the first and second regions. The first conductor layers are above the first region. The second conductor layers are above an uppermost one of the first conductor layers. The third conductor layer is above the second region. The insulator layer is above the second and third regions. The insulator layer includes first and second portions. The first portion is above the third conductor layer at a height from the substrate greater than a height of the uppermost one of the first conductor layers and extends along a substrate surface direction. The second portion extends along a substrate thickness direction and contacts a surface of the substrate in the third region.

Semiconductor memory device

A semiconductor memory device includes a P-type transistor and a first N-type transistor. The P-type transistor includes a first semiconductor layer containing carbon, a P-type second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer provided on the second semiconductor layer and containing carbon. The first N-type transistor includes a fourth semiconductor layer containing carbon, an N-type fifth semiconductor layer provided on the fourth semiconductor layer, a sixth semiconductor layer provided on the fifth semiconductor layer and containing carbon.

Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device

An integrated circuit device of an embodiment includes a substrate, a first transistor, an insulation layer, a first contact, a second contact, and a first single crystal portion. The first transistor includes a first gate electrode, and a first drain region, and wherein the first source region and the first drain region are disposed in the substrate. The first contact faces the first gate electrode. The second contact faces a first region that is first one of the first source region and the first drain region. The first single crystal portion is disposed on the first region and convex from a surface of the first region, and is located between the first region and the second contact.

Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing integrated circuit device

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment comprises: a field effect transistor comprising a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode; a wiring line layer positioned above the field effect transistor; and a control circuit that adjusts a voltage of a wiring line in the wiring line layer. The wiring line layer comprises: a contact wiring line connected to a source or a drain of the field effect transistor; and a first wiring line facing a position between the gate electrode and the contact wiring line, of the semiconductor layer. The control circuit adjusts the contact wiring line to a certain voltage and sets the first wiring line to a floating state.

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