Variable programming voltage step size control during programming of a memory device

    公开(公告)号:US12125537B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US17502398

    申请日:2021-10-15

    发明人: Huiwen Xu Jun Wan Bo Lei

    IPC分类号: G11C16/04 G11C11/56 G11C16/10

    摘要: The memory device includes a control circuitry that is communicatively coupled to memory cells are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The control circuitry is configured to perform a first programming pass on a selected word line. The first programming pass includes a plurality of programming loops, each of which includes the application of a programming pulse (Vpgm). The programming pulse voltage is increased between programming loops of the first programming pass by a step size. The step size is a first step size between two programming loops of the first programming pass and is a second step size that is different than the first step size between two other programming loops of the first programming pass. The control circuitry is also configured to perform a second programming pass to further program the memory cells of the selected word line to the plurality of data states.

    Three-dimensional memory device including hammerhead-shaped word lines and methods of manufacturing the same

    公开(公告)号:US12094943B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US17587518

    申请日:2022-01-28

    摘要: A semiconductor structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, a memory opening vertically extending through the alternating stack, and a memory opening fill structure located in the memory opening and including a vertical semiconductor channel, a memory film in contact with the vertical semiconductor channel, and a vertical stack of tubular dielectric spacers laterally surrounding the memory film. The tubular dielectric spacers may include tubular graded silicon oxynitride portions having a composition gradient such that an atomic concentration of nitrogen decreases with a lateral distance from an outer sidewall of the memory film, or may include tubular composite dielectric spacers including a respective tubular silicon oxide spacer and a respective tubular dielectric metal oxide spacer. Each of the electrically conductive layers has a hammerhead-shaped vertical cross-sectional profile.