A memory cell is formed by a PIN diode having three contacts. A breakdown voltage is applied to break down a gate oxide arranged between a region of the PIN diode and a substrate region. The breakdown or non-breakdown state of the gate oxide is determined by applying a read voltage between the anode and the cathode of the diode and determining the value of the corresponding current flowing in the diode.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a substrate including a single crystal layer; a plurality of first transistors in and on the single crystal layer; at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer overlays the plurality of first transistors and the at least one metal layer includes connections between the first transistors, and where a portion of the connections between the first transistors form memory peripheral circuits; a stack of at least sixteen layers, where the stack of sixteen layers includes odd numbered layers and even numbered layers of a different composition and overlays the at least one metal layer, a multilevel memory structure, where the multilevel memory structure includes the stack of at least sixteen layers, where the stack of at least sixteen layers includes at least eight layers of memory cells controlled by the memory peripheral circuits.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a substrate including a single crystal layer; a plurality of first transistors in and on the single crystal layer; at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer overlays the plurality of first transistors and the at least one metal layer includes connections between the first transistors, and where a portion of the connections between the first transistors form memory peripheral circuits; a stack of at least sixteen layers, where the stack of sixteen layers includes odd numbered layers and even numbered layers of a different composition and overlays the at least one metal layer, a multilevel memory structure, where the multilevel memory structure includes the stack of at least sixteen layers, where the stack of at least sixteen layers includes at least eight layers of memory cells controlled by the memory peripheral circuits.

A 3D semiconductor, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer including interconnects between the plurality of first transistors, where the interconnects between the plurality of first transistors includes forming a plurality of logic gates; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the first metal layer, where at least six of the plurality of first transistors are connected in series forming at least a portion of a NAND logic structure, where the plurality of second transistors are vertically oriented transistors, and where the plurality of second transistors are at least partially directly overlaying the NAND logic structure; a memory cell; and a second metal layer overlaying the plurality of second transistors, where the second metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with less than 40 nm misalignment, where the second transistors include a p type source and a p type drain.

A 3D semiconductor, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer including interconnects between the plurality of first transistors, where the interconnects between the plurality of first transistors includes forming a plurality of logic gates; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the first metal layer, where at least six of the plurality of first transistors are connected in series forming at least a portion of a NAND logic structure, where the plurality of second transistors are vertically oriented transistors, and where the plurality of second transistors are at least partially directly overlaying the NAND logic structure; a memory cell; and a second metal layer overlaying the plurality of second transistors, where the second metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with less than 40 nm misalignment, where the second transistors include a p type source and a p type drain.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors; at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors and forming a plurality of logic gates; a first intermediate metal layer overlaying the at least one metal layer; a second intermediate metal layer overlaying the first intermediate metal layer; where the first intermediate metal layer has a first current carrying capacity, where the second intermediate metal layer has a second current carrying capacity, and where the first current carrying capacity is significantly greater than the second current carrying capacity; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the second intermediate metal layer; and a top metal layer overlaying the second transistors; and a memory cell, where at least one of the second transistors includes a polysilicon transistor channel, where the second transistors are precisely aligned to the first transistors.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors; at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors and forming a plurality of logic gates; a first intermediate metal layer overlaying the at least one metal layer; a second intermediate metal layer overlaying the first intermediate metal layer; where the first intermediate metal layer has a first current carrying capacity, where the second intermediate metal layer has a second current carrying capacity, and where the first current carrying capacity is significantly greater than the second current carrying capacity; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the second intermediate metal layer; and a top metal layer overlaying the second transistors; and a memory cell, where at least one of the second transistors includes a polysilicon transistor channel, where the second transistors are precisely aligned to the first transistors.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of logic gates including the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the at least one metal layer; a plurality of third transistors overlaying the second transistors; a top metal layer overlaying the third transistors; and a memory array including wordlines, where the memory array includes at least four rows by four columns of memory mini arrays, where each of the mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, and where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of logic gates including the at least one metal layer interconnecting the first transistors; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the at least one metal layer; a plurality of third transistors overlaying the second transistors; a top metal layer overlaying the third transistors; and a memory array including wordlines, where the memory array includes at least four rows by four columns of memory mini arrays, where each of the mini arrays includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells, and where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors.

A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors; at least one first metal layer interconnecting the plurality of first transistors, where the interconnecting includes forming memory peripheral circuits; a plurality of second transistors overlaying the at least one first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the plurality of second transistors; a first memory cell overlaying the memory peripheral circuits; and a second memory cell overlaying the first memory cell, where the first memory cell includes at least one of the second transistors, where at least one of the second transistors includes a source, channel and drain, where the source, the channel and the drain have the same dopant type.