Patent classifications
H01L27/11509
Integrated Transistors Having Gate Material Passing Through a Pillar of Semiconductor Material, and Methods of Forming Integrated Transistors
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a pillar of semiconductor material. The pillar has a base region, and bifurcates into two segments which extend upwardly from the base region. The two segments are horizontally spaced from one another by an intervening region. A conductive gate is within the intervening region. A first source/drain region is within the base region, a second source/drain region is within the segments, and a channel region is within the segments. The channel region is adjacent to the conductive gate and is vertically disposed between the first and second source/drain regions. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
Semiconductor structures, memory cells and devices comprising ferroelectric materials, systems including same, and related methods
A semiconductor structure includes an electrode, a ferroelectric material adjacent the electrode, the ferroelectric material comprising an oxide of at least one of hafnium and zirconium, the ferroelectric material doped with bismuth, and another electrode adjacent the ferroelectric material on an opposite side thereof from the first electrode. Related semiconductor structures, memory cells, semiconductor devices, electronic systems, and related methods are disclosed.
SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP
A semiconductor chip including a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure and memory devices is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes first transistors, and the first transistors are negative capacitance field effect transistors. The interconnect structure is disposed over the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the first transistors, and the interconnect structure includes stacked interlayer dielectric layers, interconnect wirings, and second transistors embedded in the stacked interlayer dielectric layers. The memory devices are embedded in the stacked interlayer dielectric layers and electrically connected to the second transistors.
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME
A semiconductor memory includes: a substrate including a cell region, first and second peripheral circuit regions disposed on two sides of the cell region; first lines extending across the cell region and the first peripheral circuit region; second lines disposed over the first lines and extending across the cell region and the second peripheral circuit region; a contact plug disposed in the second peripheral circuit region and connected to the second line; third lines disposed over the second lines and respectively overlapping the second lines; and first memory cells disposed in the cell region and located at intersections of the first lines and the second lines between the first lines and the second lines, wherein a portion of the third line, located in the cell region contacts the second line, and another portion of the third line located over the contact plug is spaced apart from the second line.
VERTICAL METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR CHANNEL SELECTOR TRANSISTOR AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME
A device structure includes at least one selector device. Each selector device includes a vertical stack including, from bottom to top, a bottom electrode, a metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and a top electrode and located over a substrate, a gate dielectric layer contacting sidewalls of the bottom electrode, the metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and the top electrode, and a gate electrode formed within the gate dielectric layer and having a top surface that is coplanar with a top surface of the top electrode. Each top electrode or each bottom electrode of the at least one selector device may be contacted by a respective nonvolatile memory element to provide a one-selector one-resistor memory cell.
Semiconductor storage device
A semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body and a columnar body. The stacked body includes a plurality of conductive layers spaced apart from each other in a stacking direction. The columnar body penetrates the stacked body in the stacking direction. The columnar body includes a columnar ferroelectric film, a semiconductor film disposed between the ferroelectric film and the conductive layers, and an insulating film disposed between the semiconductor film and the conductive layers.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE
22In a method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device, insulating layers and conductive gates may be alternately formed on a semiconductor substrate to form a stack structure. A contact hole may be formed through the stack structure. A channel layer may be formed on a surface of the contact hole. The contact hole may be filled with a gap-fill insulating layer. The gap-fill insulating layer may be etched by a target depth to define a preliminary junction region. The channel layer may be etched until a surface of the channel layer may correspond to a surface of an uppermost gate among the gates. Diffusion-preventing ions may be implanted into the channel layer. A capping layer with impurities may be formed in the preliminary junction region.
SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP
A semiconductor chip including a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure and a memory cell array is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a logic circuit. The interconnect structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the logic circuit, and the interconnect structure includes stacked interlayer dielectric layers and interconnect wirings embedded in the stacked interlayer dielectric layers. The memory cell array is embedded in the stacked interlayer dielectric layers. The memory cell array includes driving transistors and memory devices, and the memory devices are electrically connected the driving transistors through the interconnect wirings.
USING FERROELECTRIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FeFETs) AS CAPACITIVE PROCESSING UNITS FOR IN-MEMORY COMPUTING
An electronic circuit includes a plurality of word lines; a plurality of bit lines intersecting said plurality of word lines at a plurality of grid points; and a plurality of in-memory processing cells located at said plurality of grid points. Each of said in-memory processing cells includes a first switch having a first terminal coupled to a corresponding one of said word lines and a second terminal; a second switch having a first terminal coupled to said second terminal of said first switch and a second terminal coupled to a corresponding one of said bit lines; and a non-volatile tunable capacitor having one electrode coupled to said second terminal of said first switch and said first terminal of said switch, and having another electrode coupled to ground.
Vertical metal oxide semiconductor channel selector transistor and methods of forming the same
A device structure includes at least one selector device. Each selector device includes a vertical stack including, from bottom to top, a bottom electrode, a metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and a top electrode and located over a substrate, a gate dielectric layer contacting sidewalls of the bottom electrode, the metal oxide semiconductor channel layer, and the top electrode, and a gate electrode formed within the gate dielectric layer and having a top surface that is coplanar with a top surface of the top electrode. Each top electrode or each bottom electrode of the at least one selector device may be contacted by a respective nonvolatile memory element to provide a one-selector one-resistor memory cell.