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US 10,644,021 B2Granted
Dense arrays and charge storage devices
AssigneeSanDisk Technologies LLC
InventorsThomas H. Lee, Igor G. Kouznetsov
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Abstract
There is provided a monolithic three dimensional array of charge storage devices which includes a plurality of device levels, wherein at least one surface between two successive device levels is planarized by chemical mechanical polishing.
Claims20
An array of nonvolatile memory cells, comprising a monolithic three dimensional memory array that comprises N device levels that are vertically stacked and separated from each other, wherein N is an integer greater than 1;
- wherein each device level of the N device levels includes a respective two-dimensional array of memory cells, and N two-dimensional arrays of memory cells are vertically stacked within the array;
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- wherein each memory cell comprises a semiconductor device and each memory cell size per bit is about (2f2)/N, where f is a minimum feature size.
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