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Manufacturing method of flash memory device comprising gate columns penetrating through a cell stack

Granted 21 Sep 2010 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc. · originally SK Group

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Inventors: Hack Seob Shin, Young Ok Hong, Yu Jin Park, Kyoung Hwan Park · Examiner: Andres Munoz

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Abstract

A flash memory device includes a substrate, a cell stack having a semiconductor layer, in which junction areas for setting areas therebetween to channel areas are formed in a shape of a stripe, and an interlayer isolation layer for insulating the semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer and the interlayer isolation layer are repeatedly stacked. The flash memory device further includes an array of gate columns penetrating through the cell stack, perpendicular to the substrate and cutting through the junction areas to dispose the junction areas at both sides thereof, and a trap layered stack introduced into an interface between the gate column and the cell stack to store charge.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section H — Electricity
  • H01L21/82
USPC · US Patent Classification
438/128257/331438/588438/288257/324438/287257/E29.309

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related publicationUS 20090296476 A13 Dec 2009

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