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Granted Patent B2
US 11,778,820 · App. 17/009,005 · Granted Oct 3, 2023

Semiconductor storage device and manufacturing method for semiconductor device

Inventor: Go Oike (Yokkaichi, JP)
Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
H10B43/27H10B43/10
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Patent No.
US 11,778,820
App. No.
17/009,005
Granted
Oct 3, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A semiconductor storage device according to an embodiment includes a stacked body in which a conductive layer and an insulating layer are stacked alternately in a first direction, a plurality of columnar bodies that extend in the first direction inside the stacked body and each include a semiconductor body, a plurality of charge storage films that are disposed between at least one of a plurality of the conductive layers and each of a plurality of the semiconductor bodies, a plurality of bit lines that extend above the stacked body in a second direction intersecting the first direction, an interlayer insulating layer that is between the stacked body and the bit lines, and contacts each of which penetrates the interlayer insulating layer and is electrically connected to one of the plurality of bit lines, in which the contacts have a first contact that is connected to one of the columnar bodies and a second contact that is connected to a plurality of the columnar bodies.

Claims (33)

1. A semiconductor storage device comprising:

a stacked body in which a conductive layer and an insulating layer are stacked alternately in a first direction;

a plurality of columnar bodies that extend in the first direction inside the stacked body and each includes an insulating core and a semiconductor body surrounding the insulating core:

a plurality of charge storage films that are disposed between at least one of a plurality of the conductive layers and each of a plurality of the semiconductor bodies;

a plurality of bit lines that extend above the stacked body in a second direction intersecting the first direction;

an interlayer insulating layer that is between the stacked body and the plurality of bit lines; and

a plurality of contacts each of which penetrates the interlayer insulating layer and is electrically connected to corresponding one of the plurality of bit lines,

wherein the plurality of contacts include at least one of first contacts that is connected to corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor bodies and at least one of second contacts that is connected to corresponding two of the plurality of semiconductor bodies, wherein

the stacked body further includes at least one of first dividers that respectively separates some of the plurality of conductive layers in the second direction and extends in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction, and

when a specific second contact among the second contacts is disposed directly above a specific first divider among the first dividers, the specific first divider is disposed between corresponding two columnar bodies among the plurality of columnar bodies, and the specific second contact is directly connected to respective two insulating cores in the corresponding two columnar bodies.

2. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 ,

wherein, in a plan view taken in the first direction, a width of the one of the second contacts in the second direction is greater than a width of the one of the first contacts in the second direction.

3. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the one of the second contacts has a long axis and a short axis in a plan view taken in the first direction, and

wherein, in a plan view taken in the first direction, a width of the one of the second contacts in a long axis direction is greater than a width of the one of the first contacts in the long axis direction.

4. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the second contacts has a long axis and a short axis in a plan view taken in the first direction, and

wherein long axis directions of the respective second contacts are inclined at an equal inclination angle with respect to the second direction.

5. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the specific first divider is disposed between corresponding two semiconductor bodies connected to a same one of the second contacts.

6. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 5 ,

wherein each of the two semiconductor bodies connected to the same one of the second contacts is in contact with the specific first divider.

7. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a plurality of second dividers that extend in the third direction and separate all of the plurality of conductive layers in the second direction,

wherein an even number of the first dividers are disposed between adjacent second dividers among the plurality of second dividers.

8. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 7 , wherein the number of first contacts connected to the semiconductor bodies that are disposed between adjacent first divider and second divider is greater than the number of first contacts connected to the semiconductor bodies that are disposed between two adjacent first dividers.

9. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of contacts include a third contact that is connected to a first semiconductor body among the plurality of semiconductor bodies and a second contact that is connected to a second semiconductor body and a third semiconductor body among the plurality of semiconductor bodies,

wherein the least one of the second contacts is connected to one of the plurality of bit lines via a via,

wherein the least one of the second contacts has a long axis and a short axis in a plan view taken in the first direction,

wherein the least one of the second contacts, has a first region and a second region partitioned by a center line passing through a geometric center of the least one of the second contacts and extending in a short axis direction, and

wherein, in two second contacts adjacent in the second direction, one of the second contacts has the via disposed in the first region and the other one of the second contacts has the via disposed in the second region.

10. The semiconductor storage device according to claim 1 , wherein the second contacts each have a portion disposed between two adjacent semiconductor bodies connected to the second contacts.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2020
From: OIKE, GO
To: KIOXIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053657/0742 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-029725 · Feb 25, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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