US 12,302,579 B2
Method for forming a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device with an improved etching step
Yong-Hoon Son, Yongin-si (KR); Jae Hoon Kim, Seoul (KR); Kwang-ho Park, Cheonan-si (KR); Hyunji Song, Anyang-si (KR); Gyeonghee Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Seungjae Jung, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/940,441.
Application 17/940,441 is a continuation of application No. 16/857,507, filed on Apr. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,462,554.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0113457 (KR), filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0005948 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H10B 43/40 (2023.01); H01L 23/522 (2006.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H10B 43/10 (2023.01); H10B 43/27 (2023.01); H10B 43/35 (2023.01)
CPC H10B 43/40 (2023.02) [H01L 23/5226 (2013.01); H01L 23/528 (2013.01); H10B 43/10 (2023.02); H10B 43/27 (2023.02); H10B 43/35 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of fabricating semiconductor memory device, the method comprising:
forming a peripheral circuit structure on a substrate;
forming a semiconductor layer on the peripheral circuit structure;
forming a mold structure on the semiconductor layer, the mold structure including insulating layers and sacrificial layers that are alternately stacked on the semiconductor layer;
forming an interlayered insulating layer covering the mold structure;
forming a first hole, a second hole and a third hole, the first hole and the second hole penetrating the mold structure, the third hole penetrating the interlayered insulating layer, the first to third holes being formed together through a first anisotropic etching process;
forming a vertical channel structure in the first hole;
replacing the sacrificial layers into electrodes through the second hole;
forming a separation structure in the second hole; and
forming a through contact in the third hole, the through contact electrically connected to the peripheral circuit structure.