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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Ta-Hone Yang, Miaoli County, TW;

Nan-Tsu Lian, Hsinchu, TW;

An Chyi Wei, Hsinchu, TW;

Sheng-Yuan Chang, Taipei, TW;

Kuang-Chao Chen, Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/51 (2006.01); H01L 27/115 (2006.01); H01L 21/768 (2006.01); H01L 21/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/11582 (2013.01); H01L 21/28282 (2013.01); H01L 21/76877 (2013.01); H01L 29/511 (2013.01); H01L 29/518 (2013.01);
Abstract

Present example embodiments relate generally to methods for fabricating semiconductor devices comprising forming an initial stack of alternating insulative and conductive layers over a substrate, identifying a plurality of bit line locations and word line locations for the initial stack, including a first bit line location and a first word line location, and forming, from the initial stack, a vertical arrangement of bit lines in the first bit line location, the vertical arrangement of bit lines having opposing sidewalls. The method further comprises forming a word line by forming a thin conductive layer over selected sections of the opposing sidewalls, the selected sections of the opposing sidewalls being sections within the first word line location. The forming the word line further comprises depositing conductive material adjacent to each thin conductive layer, the deposited conductive material in direct contact with the thin conductive layer.


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