Abstract:
A memory card includes a case including a first case portion and a second case portion that is coupled to the first case portion, an integrated circuit package located in the case, and a marking layer located in the case, wherein the second case portion includes a through-hole, wherein the marking layer is exposed to an outside through the through-hole.
Abstract:
An embodiment provides a test element group (TEG) circuit, including: a first pad configured for a test voltage to be applied; an amplifier including a first input terminal connected to the first pad, a second input terminal connected to a first terminal of a test transistor, and an output terminal electrically connected to the second input terminal; a variable resistor including one terminal connected to the output terminal of the amplifier and the other terminal connected to the first terminal of the test transistor; and a gate driving circuit that supplies a gate voltage to a gate of the test transistor.
Abstract:
A memory card includes a case and an integrated circuit package disposed in the case. The case includes a first case edge, a second case edge connected to the first case edge, a third case edge connected to the second case edge, a fourth case edge connected to the third case edge and the first case edge, and a first recessed groove formed in the second case edge, the first recessed groove being spaced apart from the first case edge and inwardly recessed. The integrated circuit package is disposed in an upper portion of the case between the first case edge and a first horizontal line that extends in a direction from a top end of the first recessed groove in the second case edge to the fourth case edge.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor pattern on a semiconductor substrate, a three-dimensional memory array on the semiconductor pattern, and a peripheral interconnection structure between the semiconductor pattern and the semiconductor substrate. The peripheral interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection structure on a lower interconnection structure. The upper interconnection structure includes an upper interconnection and an upper barrier layer. The lower interconnection structure includes a lower interconnection and a lower barrier layer. The upper barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the upper interconnection and does not cover side surfaces of the upper interconnection. The lower barrier layer is under a bottom surface of the lower interconnection and covers side surfaces of the lower interconnection.
Abstract:
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device includes a stack structure including electrodes vertically stacked on a substrate, a channel structure coupled to the electrodes to constitute a plurality of memory cells three-dimensionally arranged on the substrate, the channel structure including first vertical channels and second vertical channels penetrating the stack structure and a first horizontal channel disposed under the stack structure to laterally connect the first vertical channels and the second vertical channels to each other, a second horizontal channel having a first conductivity type and connected to a sidewall of the first horizontal channel of the channel structure, and conductive plugs having a second conductivity type and disposed on top ends of the second vertical channels.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device includes forming a mold stack on a substrate and the mold stack including first sacrificial layers and second sacrificial layers alternately stacked on the substrate. The method also includes forming a plurality of vertical channels that penetrate the mold stack and that contact the substrate, patterning the mold stack to form word line cuts between the vertical channels, the word line cuts exposing the substrate, removing one of the first and second sacrificial layers to form recessed regions in the mold stack, forming a data storage layer, at least a portion of the data storage layer being formed between the vertical channels and the gates, forming gates in the recessed regions, forming air gaps between the gates by removing the other of the first and second sacrificial layers, and forming an insulation layer pattern in the word line cuts.
Abstract:
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device that includes a peripheral logic structure including peripheral logic circuits disposed on a semiconductor substrate and a first insulation layer overlapping the peripheral logic circuits, and a plurality of memory blocks spaced apart from each other on the peripheral logic structure. At least one of the memory blocks includes a well plate electrode, a semiconductor layer in contact with a first surface of the well plate electrode, a stack structure including a plurality of electrodes vertically stacked on the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of vertical structures penetrating the stack structure and connected to the semiconductor layer.
Abstract:
A plurality of vertical channels of semiconductor material are formed to extend in a vertical direction through the plurality of insulation layers and the plurality of conductive patterns, a gate insulating layer between the conductive pattern and the vertical channels that insulates the conductive pattern from the vertical channels. Conductive contact regions of the at least two of the conductive patterns are in a stepped configuration. An etch stop layer is positioned on the conductive contact regions, wherein the etch stop layer has a first portion on a first one of the plurality of conductive patterns and has a second portion on a second one of the plurality of conductive patterns, wherein the first portion is of a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the second portion.
Abstract:
An erase method of a resistive random access memory which includes a plurality of cell strings, each having a plurality of memory cells and a string selection transistor, includes applying a first voltage to bit lines connected with string selection transistors of the plurality of cell strings, applying a turn-on voltage to at least one string selection line selected from string selection lines connected with the string selection transistors, applying a turn-off voltage to unselected string selection lines of the string selection lines, applying a second voltage to at least one word line selected from word lines connected with memory cells of the plurality of cell strings, and floating unselected word lines of the word lines.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a memory device which includes a driver unit that includes a pull-up driver and a pull-down driver, a ZQ calibration unit that performs ZQ calibration with respect to the driver unit based on an external resistor and a first reference voltage and generates a first ZQ code corresponding to the first reference voltage, and a code conversion unit that generates a second ZQ code corresponding to a second reference voltage different from the first reference voltage, based on the first ZQ code.