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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2014
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK HYNIX INC., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/3459 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of electrically coupled memory cells in a generally vertical configuration extending in a generally perpendicular direction from a semiconductor substrate, a peripheral circuit configured to program the memory cells, and a control circuit configured to program a memory cell selected from the plurality of memory cells to trap charge in the selected memory cell, and to issue at least one command to the peripheral circuit to manage a dispersion of at least a portion of the trapped charge between memory cells adjacent to the selected memory cell.