Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yoonjo Hwang

Junyoung Choi

Jiyoung Kim

Jungtae Sung

Moorym Choi

Wooyong Jeon

Sanghee Yoon

A semiconductor device includes a first substrate structure including a substrate, circuit devices, and first bonding metal layers on the circuit devices, and a second substrate structure connected to the first substrate structure on the first substrate structure, wherein the second substrate structure includes a plate layer having a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked below the plate layer and extending by different lengths in a second direction in the second region, channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes and each including a channel layer, in the first region, input/output contact structures penetrating the plate layer and the gate electrodes and each including a contact conductive layer, in the second region, and second bonding metal layers connected to the first bonding metal layers, wherein a level of upper surfaces of the input/output contact structures is higher than a level of upper surfaces of the channel structures.

Semiconductor devices and data storage systems including the same

A semiconductor device includes a first substrate structure including a first substrate, circuit devices, first interconnection lines, bonding metal layers on upper surfaces of the first interconnection lines, and a first bonding insulating layer on the upper surfaces of the first interconnection lines and on lateral surfaces of the bonding metal layers, and a second substrate structure on the first substrate structure, and including a second substrate, gate electrodes, channel structures, second interconnection lines, bonding vias connected to the second interconnection lines and the bonding metal layers and having a lateral surface that is inclined such that widths of the bonding vias increase approaching the first substrate structure, and a second bonding insulating layer in contact with at least lower portions of the bonding vias. The bonding metal layers include dummy bonding metal layers not connected to the bonding vias and that contacts the second bonding insulating layer.

Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same

A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a first substrate, a peripheral circuit structure on the first substrate, a cell array structure on the peripheral circuit structure, the cell array structure including a stack structure having alternating interlayer dielectric layers and gate electrodes, a first insulating layer covering the stack structure, and a second substrate on the stack structure and the first insulating layer, the stack structure being between a bottom surface of the second substrate and the peripheral circuit structure, a second insulating layer on the cell array structure, a first penetration contact penetrating the first insulating layer, the second substrate, and the second insulating layer, and a second penetration contact penetrating the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the second penetration contact being spaced apart from the second substrate, and the first and second penetration contacts having widths decreasing with increasing distance from the first substrate.

Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device and electronic system including the same

A nonvolatile memory device includes a first structure and a second structure bonded to the first structure. The second structure includes a low-resistance conductive layer, a common source line layer on the low-resistance conductive layer, a stack structure above the common source line layer, a plurality of channel structures passing through a cell region of the stack structure and contacting the common source line layer, a dummy channel structure passing through a step region of the stack structure and contacting the common source line layer, a second insulating structure on the stack structure, a plurality of second bonding pads on the second insulating structure, and a second interconnect structure in the second insulating structure.

Nonvolatile memory device and memory system comprising the same

Disclosed are three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and electronic systems including the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor memory device comprises a first structure and a second structure in contact with the first structure. Each of the first and second structures includes a substrate, a peripheral circuit region on the substrate, and a cell array region including a stack structure on the peripheral circuit region, a plurality of vertical structures that penetrate the stack structure, and a common source region in contact with the vertical structures. The stack structure is between the peripheral circuit region and the common source region. The common source regions of the first and second structures are connected with each other.

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Yoonjo Hwang