US 12,176,016 B2
Memory device having bitline segmented into bitline segments and related method for operating memory device
Shih-Lien Linus Lu, Hsinchu (TW); Fong-Yuan Chang, Hsinchu County (TW); and Yi-Chun Shih, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/472,282.
Application 17/733,785 is a division of application No. 16/216,073, filed on Dec. 11, 2018, granted, now 11,322,188, issued on May 3, 2022.
Application 18/472,282 is a continuation of application No. 17/733,785, filed on Apr. 29, 2022, granted, now 11,817,139.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/734,084, filed on Sep. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0013828 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G11C 7/02 (2006.01); G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H10B 61/00 (2023.01); H10N 50/10 (2023.01); H10N 50/80 (2023.01)
CPC G11C 11/161 (2013.01) [G11C 11/1655 (2013.01); G11C 11/1657 (2013.01); G11C 11/1659 (2013.01); G11C 11/1673 (2013.01); G11C 11/1675 (2013.01); H10B 61/20 (2023.02); H10N 50/10 (2023.02); H10N 50/80 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A memory device, comprising:
a plurality of circuit layers disposed one above another, each circuit layer comprising one or more memory cell arrays;
a plurality of conductive through via structures penetrating though the circuit layers; and
a plurality of bitlines, each bitline comprising a plurality of bitline segments disposed on the circuit layers respectively, the bitline segments being electrically connected through one of the conductive through via structures, each bitline segment being coupled to a plurality of memory cells of a memory cell array of a circuit layer where the bitline segment is disposed;
wherein the circuit layers comprise a first circuit layer and a second circuit layer; the first circuit layer comprises a first bitline selector, and the second circuit layer comprises a second bitline selector; the first bitline selector is configured to couple one bitline segment selected from among a first set of bitline segments disposed on the first circuit layer to a first conductive through via structure of the conductive through via structures, and the second bitline selector is configured to couple one bitline segment selected from among a second set of bitline segments disposed on the second circuit layer to the first conductive through via structure.