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US 12,342,520 · App. 18/749,271 · Granted Jun 24, 2025

Semiconductor storage device

Inventors: Masanobu Hirose (Yokohama, JP); Yasunori Murase (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
H10B10/12G11C11/412G11C11/419H10B10/18
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Patent No.
US 12,342,520
App. No.
18/749,271
Granted
Jun 24, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Nanosheets 21 to 23 are formed in line in this order in the X direction, and nanosheets 24 to 26 are formed in line in this order in the X direction. In a buried interconnect layer, a power line 11 is formed between the nanosheets 22 and 25 as viewed in plan. A face of the nanosheet 22 on a first side as one of the sides in the X direction is exposed from a gate interconnect 32 . A face of the nanosheet 25 on a second side as the other side in the X direction is exposed from a gate interconnect 35.

Claims (35)

1. A semiconductor storage device including a one-port SRAM cell, the one-port SRAM cell comprising:

a first transistor connected to a first power supply supplying a first voltage at one of its nodes, to a first node at the other node, and to a second node at its gate;

a second transistor connected to the first power supply at one of its nodes, to the second node at the other node, and to the first node at its gate;

a third transistor connected to the first node at one of its nodes, to a second power supply supplying a second voltage different from the first voltage at the other node, and to the second node at its gate;

a fourth transistor connected to the second node at one of its nodes, to the second power supply at the other node, and to the first node at its gate;

a fifth transistor connected to a first bit line at one of its nodes, to the first node at the other node, and to a word line at its gate; and

a sixth transistor connected to a second bit line at one of its nodes, to the second node at the other node, and to the word line at its gate, the first bit line and the second bit line constituting a complementary bit line pair,

wherein

the first to sixth transistors respectively include

first to sixth nanosheets extending in a first direction, and

first to sixth gate interconnects surrounding the first to sixth nanosheets, respectively, in a second direction vertical to the first direction and in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions,

the sixth, first, and third nanosheets are formed in line in this order in the second direction,

the fourth, second, and fifth nanosheets are formed in line in this order in the second direction,

faces of the fourth and sixth nanosheets on a first side that is close to a cell boundary in the second direction are exposed from the fourth and sixth gate interconnects,

faces of the third and fifth nanosheets on a second side that is opposite to the first side in the second direction are exposed from the third and fifth gate interconnects,

a face of the second nanosheet on the second side is exposed from the second gate interconnect, and

a face of the first nanosheet on the first side is exposed from the first gate interconnect.

2. The semiconductor storage device of claim 1 , wherein

the one-port SRAM cell further comprises:

a first interconnect extending in the first direction, which is to be the first bit line; and

a second interconnect extending in the first direction, which is to be the second bit line,

the first and second interconnects are formed in a same first interconnect layer above the first to sixth transistors, and

at least one of the first and second interconnects is larger in width in the second direction than an interconnect, among interconnects formed in the first interconnect layer, of which the width in the second direction is smallest.

3. The semiconductor storage device of claim 1 , wherein

the one-port SRAM cell further comprises:

a third interconnect extending in the second direction, which is to be the word line,

the third interconnect is formed in a second interconnect layer above the first to sixth transistors.

4. The semiconductor storage device of claim 1 , wherein

a first power line supplying the first voltage is formed to extend in the first direction in a layer below the first to sixth transistors.

5. The semiconductor storage device of claim 1 , wherein

the one-port SRAM cell further comprises:

a second and third power lines supplying the second voltage, extending in the first direction in a layer below the first to sixth transistors.

6. The semiconductor storage device of claim 1 , wherein

the one-port SRAM cell comprises a local interconnect extending in the second direction, connected to any of the nodes of the first to sixth transistors, and

an end of the local interconnect in the second direction is located somewhere between both ends of the connected node.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-026503 · Feb 19, 2020 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17879415 · Aug 2, 2022
Continuation PCTJP2021003869 · Feb 3, 2021
Related Publication 20240341074A1 · Oct 10, 2024
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