Toshiba Memory Corporation

Kioxia Corporation

Yuichiro Mitani

Harumi Seki

Takamitsu Ishihara

A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate electrode layer; a first insulating layer provided between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode layer, the first insulating layer containing silicon (Si), nitrogen (N), and fluorine (F), and the first insulating layer including a first region; a second insulating layer provided between the first insulating layer and the gate electrode layer; and a charge storage layer provided between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, the charge storage layer containing silicon (Si) and nitrogen (N), and the charge storage layer including a second region, in which a second atomic ratio (N/Si) in the second region is larger than a first atomic ratio (N/Si) in the first region, and in which a first fluorine concentration in the first region is higher than a second fluorine concentration in the second region.

Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first interconnect layer; a second interconnect layer adjacent to the first interconnect layer; a semiconductor layer between the first and second interconnect layers; a first charge storage layer between the first interconnect layer and the semiconductor layer; and a second charge storage layer between the second interconnect layer and the semiconductor layer. A first distance between the first and second interconnect layers is shorter than a second distance between the first and second charge storage layers.

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Miura-gun, Japan

Yuichiro Mitani