US 12,250,822 B2
Three-dimensional memory device and manufacturing method thereof
Meng-Han Lin, Hsinchu (TW); Chun-Fu Cheng, Hsinchu County (TW); Feng-Cheng Yang, Hsinchu County (TW); Sheng-Chen Wang, Hsinchu (TW); Yu-Chien Chiu, Hsinchu (TW); and Han-Jong Chia, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/338,344.
Application 18/338,344 is a continuation of application No. 17/159,120, filed on Jan. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,723,209.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/031,577, filed on May 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0337436 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H10B 51/20 (2023.01); H10B 43/27 (2023.01); H10B 51/30 (2023.01)
CPC H10B 51/20 (2023.02) [H10B 43/27 (2023.02); H10B 51/30 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional memory device, comprising:
providing a first stacking structure and a second stacking structure on a substrate, wherein the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure are laterally spaced apart from each other, and respectively comprise alternately stacked conductive layers and insulating layers;
forming isolation pillars across a spacing between the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure, wherein the isolation pillars laterally protrude into the conductive layers and the insulating layers of the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure, and cell regions are respectively enclosed by adjacent ones of the isolation pillars, the first stacking structure and the second stacking structure; and
forming gate dielectric layers, channel layers and pairs of conductive pillars in the cell regions, wherein each of the channel layers is surrounded by one of the gate dielectric layers, and each pair of the conductive pillars are surrounded by and separately in contact with one of the channel layers.