公开(公告)号：US20220406360A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17685849

申请日：2022-03-03

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Seokjae Lee ,  Bok-Yeon Won ,  Kyoungmin Kim ,  Donggeon Kim ,  Myeongsik Ryu ,  Sangwook Park ,  Inseok Baek

IPC: G11C11/408 ,  H01L27/108

Abstract: A sub-word-line driver and semiconductor memory devices including the same are provided. The sub-word-line driver may include a word line pull-up transistor, a word line pull-down transistor, and a keeping transistor configured to maintain a word line at a specified voltage level. The sub-word-line driver may include a peripheral active region on a substrate, a first peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the word line pull-down transistor on the peripheral active region, a second peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the keeping transistor on the peripheral active region, and a first lower contact coupled to a first region of the peripheral active region. A first (VBB) voltage from the first region may be supplied to a source node of the keeping transistor.

公开(公告)号：US20220157960A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-19

申请号：US17361890

申请日：2021-06-29

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Byunghoon Cho ,  Inseok Baek ,  Hyeonok Jung ,  Beomyong Hwang

IPC: H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/10

Abstract: A transistor with a shared gate structure includes an active area and a gate. The active area has a body extending in a first direction on a substrate, and a protrusion extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from a central portion of the body in the first direction. The gate is arranged above the active area to overlap a channel area of the active area, and has an inverted pi () structure that, from a plan view, surrounds on three sides but does not cover a portion of the active area that includes two corner portions of the active area. The active area is divided into a first active area and a second active area by a separation area extending in the second direction and separating the body and a portion of the protrusion. The protrusion is divided into a first portion separated into two sub-portions by the separation area and a second portion, wherein the first portion is between the body and the second portion in the second direction. Opposite ends of the body in the first direction corresponding to two drain areas, the second portion of the protrusion corresponding to a common source area, and the gate constitute two transistors, wherein the two transistors share the gate.