US 11,984,514 B2
Semiconductor device
Jinseong Heo, Seoul (KR); Taehwan Moon, Suwon-si (KR); Hagyoul Bae, Hanam-si (KR); Seunggeol Nam, Suwon-si (KR); Sangwook Kim, Seongnam-si (KR); and Kwanghee Lee, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/324,638.
Application 18/324,638 is a continuation of application No. 17/461,034, filed on Aug. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,699,765.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0163338 (KR), filed on Nov. 27, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0034246 (KR), filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0307553 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H01L 29/86 (2006.01); H10B 69/00 (2023.01); H10K 10/50 (2023.01); H10K 19/00 (2023.01)
CPC H01L 29/86 (2013.01) [H10B 69/00 (2023.02); H10K 10/50 (2023.02); H10K 19/00 (2023.02); H10K 19/201 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
a first electrode;
a second electrode isolated from direct contact with the first electrode;
a ferroelectric layer;
a conductive metal oxide layer; and
a semiconductor layer,
wherein the ferroelectric layer, the conductive metal oxide layer, and the semiconductor layer are between the first electrode and the second electrode, and
wherein the conductive metal oxide layer has a crystal structure having a (111) and/or (001) crystal direction.
 
19. A semiconductor apparatus, comprising:
a stack structure in which a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of first electrodes are alternately and repeatedly stacked in a vertical direction; and
a cell string including a ferroelectric layer, a conductive metal oxide layer, a semiconductor layer, and a second electrode,
wherein the cell string penetrates the stack structure in the vertical direction,
wherein, in the cell string, the ferroelectric layer, the conductive metal oxide layer, and the semiconductor layer are between a first electrode of the plurality of first electrodes and the second electrode, and
wherein the conductive metal oxide layer has a crystal structure having a (111) and/or (001) crystal direction.