Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having first electrodes with top surfaces, and with sidewall surfaces extending downwardly from the top surfaces. The first electrodes are solid pillars. Insulative material is along the sidewall surfaces of the first electrodes. Second electrodes extend along the sidewall surfaces of the first electrodes and are spaced from the sidewall surfaces by the insulative material. Conductive-plate-material extends across the first and second electrodes, and couples the second electrodes to one another. Leaker-devices electrically couple the first electrodes to the conductive-plate-material and are configured to discharge at least a portion of excess charge from the first electrodes to the conductive-plate-material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.

A method for manufacturing a capacitor array includes: providing a substrate provided with a device area configured for forming a capacitor and a peripheral area located at a periphery of the device area; forming successively a first support layer and a first sacrificial layer on the substrate; etching the first sacrificial layer of the peripheral area to expose the first support layer, so as to form a first via; and filling the first via to form a support pillar.

A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a first channel pattern on and spaced apart from a substrate, the first channel pattern having a first end and a second end that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, and a first sidewall and a second sidewall connecting between the first end and the second end, the first and second sidewalls being spaced apart from each other in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate, the second direction intersecting the first direction, a bit line in contact with the first end of the first channel pattern, the bit line extending in a third direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, and a first gate electrode adjacent to the first sidewall of the first channel pattern.

An integrated circuit device includes: a substrate including a plurality of active regions; a bit line extending on the substrate in a horizontal direction; a direct contact connected between a first active region selected among the plurality of active regions and the bit line; an inner oxide layer contacting a sidewall of the direct contact; and a carbon-containing oxide layer nonlinearly extending on a sidewall of the bit line in a vertical direction, the carbon-containing oxide layer contacting the sidewall of the bit line.

A capacitor includes a lower electrode including a first metal material and having a first crystal size in a range of a few nanometers, a dielectric layer covering the lower electrode and having a second crystal size that is a value of a crystal expansion ratio times the first crystal size and an upper electrode including a second metal material and covering the dielectric layer. The upper electrode has a third crystal size smaller than the second crystal size.

A method for forming a semiconductor device includes the following operations. A stacked structure is provided, which includes a substrate, and sacrificial layers and semiconductor layers alternately stacked on surface of the substrate. Multiple first grooves and semiconductor pillars extending in first direction are included in the sacrificial layers and the semiconductor layers. Word line pillars are formed in second direction, intersect with the semiconductor pillars and surround the semiconductor pillars. Sources and drains are formed respectively on either side of the semiconductor pillars surrounded by the word line pillars by an epitaxial growth process. Bit lines are formed on a side of the sources or the drains, are connected with same, and extend in third direction. The first, second and third directions are pairwise perpendicular. Capacitors are formed on a side of the sources or the drains where the bit lines are not formed to form a semiconductor device.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a semiconductor substrate, a method for forming same, and a layout structure. The method includes: providing a semiconductor structure including a first region and a second region arranged in sequence along a second direction, the second region including active structures arranged in an array along a first direction and a third direction, each of the active structure at least including a channel structure, the first direction, the second direction, and the third direction being perpendicular to each other, and the first direction and the second direction being parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a gate structure on a surface of the channel structure; and forming a word line structure extending in the first direction on the first region. The word line structure is connected with the gate structure located on the same layer.

The method for forming the capacitor stack structure includes: providing a substrate on which a plurality of first laminated structures arranged in a first direction and a first isolation structure located between every two adjacent the first laminated structures are formed, and the first laminated structure including first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers stacked alternately; forming, in the first laminated structures and the first isolation structures, first trench extending in the first direction, the spacing in a second direction between the adjacent remaining first semiconductor layers is greater than the spacing between the adjacent remaining second semiconductor layers; forming a support structure in the first trench, and removing the first semiconductor layers from the first laminated structure to form a first space; and forming capacitor structures in the first space to form a capacitor stack structure.

Semiconductor devices and corresponding methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. For example, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor comprising a first channel region. The first channel region includes one or more first nanostructures formed of a semiconductor material. The semiconductor device includes a second transistor disposed vertically with respect to the first transistor and comprising a second channel region. The second channel region includes one or more second nanostructures formed of a conductive oxide material.

A method for forming a semiconductor structure comprises: providing a substrate, which includes a first area and a second area arranged in sequence in a second direction, the first area including active layers arranged at intervals in a third direction; forming an initial gate structure located on a surface of each active layer in the first area; etching the initial gate structures to form comb-shaped gate structures stacked in a third direction, each comb-shaped gate structure including first gate structures arranged at intervals in the first direction; and forming bit line structures extending in the third direction and capacitor structures extending in the second direction in the second area, the bit line structures and the capacitor structures are connecting to the first gate structures.