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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2019
Sandisk Technologies Llc, Addison, TX (US);
Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher J. Petti, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Le, San Jose, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies LLC, Addison, TX (US);
Abstract
A monolithic three-dimensional memory array is provided that includes a plurality of global bit lines disposed above a substrate, a plurality of vertically-oriented bit lines disposed above the global bit lines, a plurality of word lines disposed above the global bit lines, a plurality of memory cells coupled between the vertically-oriented bit lines and the word lines, and a plurality of isolation elements coupled between the vertically-oriented bit lines and the global bit lines. Each isolation element includes a vertical thin-film transistor and a threshold selector device.