G11C16/0466

Memory Cells and Integrated Assemblies having Charge-Trapping-Material with Trap-Enhancing-Additive
20230163219 · 2023-05-25 · ·

Some embodiments include a memory cell having charge-trapping-material between a semiconductor channel material and a gating region. The charge-trapping-material includes silicon, nitrogen and trap-enhancing-additive. The trap-enhancing-additive includes one or more of carbon, phosphorus, boron and metal. Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The first levels include conductive structures and the second levels are insulative. Channel-material-pillars extend through the stack. Charge-trapping-regions are along the channel-material-pillars and are between the channel-material-pillars and the conductive structures. The charge-trapping-regions include a charge-trapping-material which contains silicon, nitrogen and trap-enhancing-additive. The trap-enhancing-additive includes one or more of carbon, phosphorus, boron and metal.

Integrated Assemblies and Methods of Forming Integrated Assemblies

Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a source structure, and having a stack of alternating conductive levels and insulative levels over the source structure. Cell-material-pillars pass through the stack. The cell-material-pillars are arranged within a configuration which includes a first memory-block-region and a second memory-block-region. The cell-material-pillars include channel material which is electrically coupled with the source structure. Memory cells are along the conductive levels and include regions of the cell-material-pillars. A panel is between the first and second memory-block-regions. The panel has a first material configured as a container shape. The container shape defines opposing sides and a bottom of a cavity. The panel has a second material within the cavity. The second material is compositionally different from the first material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.

MEMORY DEVICE USING SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT
20230115460 · 2023-04-13 ·

A memory device includes a page constituted by multiple memory cells arranged in a row form on a substrate, and performs a page write operation of controlling voltages to be applied to first and second gate conductor layers and first and second impurity layers of each memory cell included in the page to hold a positive hole group formed by an impact ionization phenomenon inside a channel semiconductor layer; During a page read operation, page data of a memory cell group selected with the word line is read to the sense amplifier circuit, and a refresh operation is performed at least once before the page read operation to hold a positive hole group formed by an impact ionization phenomenon inside a channel semiconductor layer.

3D VIRTUAL GROUND MEMORY AND MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR SAME

Memory devices are implemented within a vertical memory structure, comprising a stack of alternating layers of insulator material and word line material, with a series of alternating conductive pillars and insulating pillars disposed through stack. Data storage structures are disposed on inside surfaces of the layers of word line material at cross-points of the insulating pillars and the layers of word line material. Semiconductor channel material is disposed between the insulating pillars and the data storage structures at cross-points of the insulating pillars with the layers of word line material. The semiconductor channel material extends around an outside surface of the insulating pillars, contacting the adjacent conductive pillars on both sides to provide source/drain terminals.

SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
20220336488 · 2022-10-20 · ·

Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a substrate with a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit; a gate stacked body with interlayer insulating layers and conductive patterns that are alternately stacked on the substrate in a vertical direction; a plurality of channel structures passing through the gate stacked body, each with a first end that protrudes above the gate stacked body; and a plurality of conductive layers disposed over the gate stacked body. Each of the plurality of conductive layers is in contact with the first end of at least one of the plurality of channel structures.

3D SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND STRUCTURE WITH LOGIC AND MEMORY
20230146353 · 2023-05-11 · ·

A 3D device, the device including: a first level including logic circuits; a second level including a plurality of memory circuits, where the first level is bonded to the second level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds, and where the first level includes at least one voltage regulator circuit.

Asymmetric junctions of high voltage transistor in NAND flash memory

The total silicon area used by a plurality of high voltage transistors in an array of NAND cells is reduced by modifying the silicon area layout such that the size of the source and drain of each of the plurality of high voltage transistors is dependent on the maximum voltage to be applied to each of the source and drain for the respective one of the plurality of high voltage transistors.

SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE
20230134753 · 2023-05-04 ·

A semiconductor memory device includes a memory block, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of select gate lines, a plurality of word lines, and a controller. The memory block includes a plurality of memory strings, each memory string including a selection transistor and a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of bit lines are arranged in the first direction and connected to the respective memory strings. The plurality of select gate lines are arranged in the second direction and connected to gates of the respective selection transistors of the memory strings. The plurality of word lines are arranged in the third direction and connected to gates of the respective memory cells of the memory strings. The controller is configured to perform an erase operation in a unit of the memory block, and perform a sequence of erase verify operations.

NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND ERASING METHOD OF NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE
20170372785 · 2017-12-28 ·

A memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks, each memory block having a plurality of memory cells stacked on a substrate in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. A row decoder circuit is connected to the plurality of memory cells through a plurality of word lines, selecting a first memory block of the plurality of memory blocks. A page buffer circuit is connected to the plurality of memory cells through a plurality of bit lines. A control logic circuit applies an erase voltage to the substrate during an erase operation, outputting a word line voltage having a first word line voltage and a second word line voltage to the row decoder circuit. During the erase operation, the row decoder circuit applies the first word line voltage to each word line of the first memory block and then applies the second word line voltage to each word line.

ERASE OPERATION WITH ELECTRON INJECTION FOR REDUCTION OF CELL-TO-CELL INTERFERENCE IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM

Control logic in a memory device cause a programming pulse to be applied to a set of wordlines including a first set of even-numbered wordlines corresponding to a first set of memory cells to be erased and a second set of odd-numbered wordlines corresponding to a second set of memory cells to be erased, where a set of electrons are injected into a first set of gate regions, a second set of gate regions, and a set of inter-cell regions of a charge trap (CT) layer of the memory device. The control logic executes a first erase cycle on the first set of even-numbered wordlines to remove a first subset of electrons from the first set of gate regions corresponding to the first set of even-numbered wordlines. The control logic executes a second erase cycle on the second set of odd-numbered wordlines to remove a second subset of electrons from the second set of gate regions corresponding to the second set of even-numbered wordlines.