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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2021
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Darwin A. Clampitt, Wilder, ID (US);
Amber Thompson, Meridian, ID (US);
Shruthi Kumara Vadivel, Boise, ID (US);
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A microelectronic device includes a stack structure having a vertically alternating sequence of conductive structures and insulating structures arranged in tiers. The stack structure further includes a first block having first stadium structures having steps having horizontal ends of the tiers, an arrangement of the first stadium structures ascending from a lowermost first stadium structure to an uppermost first stadium structure in a first horizontal direction and a second block neighboring the first block in a second horizontal direction orthogonal to the first horizontal direction and having second stadium structures having additional steps having additional horizontal ends of the tiers, an arrangement of second stadium structures descending from an uppermost second stadium structure to a lowermost second stadium structure in the first horizontal direction. Related methods and electronic systems are also disclosed.