US 12,131,995 B2
Semiconductor device and data storage system including the same
Seungyoon Kim, Seoul (KR); Jeongyong Sung, Suwon-si (KR); Sanghun Chun, Suwon-si (KR); Jihwan Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Sunghee Chung, Suwon-si (KR); and Jeehoon Han, Hwaseong-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/370,913.
Application 18/370,913 is a continuation of application No. 17/475,128, filed on Sep. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,791,262.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0143002 (KR), filed on Oct. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0014134 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H10B 43/27 (2023.01); H01L 23/528 (2006.01); H01L 29/423 (2006.01)
CPC H01L 23/5283 (2013.01) [H01L 29/42356 (2013.01); H10B 43/27 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A semiconductor device, comprising:
a pattern structure;
a stack structure including a plurality of gate layers stacked and spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction in a first region on the pattern structure and extending into a second region on the pattern structure;
a memory vertical structure penetrating through the stack structure in the first region; and
a plurality of gate contact plugs electrically connected to the plurality of gate layers in the second region,
wherein the plurality of gate layers includes a first gate layer,
wherein the plurality of gate contact plugs includes a gate contact plug in contact with and electrically connected to the first gate layer,
wherein a side surface of the gate contact plug includes a first upper bending portion,
wherein a side surface of the memory vertical structure includes a second upper bending portion, and
wherein the first upper bending portion and the second upper bending portion are at a higher level than an uppermost gate layer of the plurality of gate layers.