Semiconductor storage device
AssigneeSocionext Inc.
InventorTomoyuki Yamada
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Abstract
A semiconductor storage device includes first and second memory cells adjacent to each other in the X direction, each of the memory cells having a program transistor and a switch transistor. First and second nanosheets, which are to be channel regions of the program transistors, are exposed from first and second gate interconnects, respectively, at faces on the sides opposed to each other in the X direction. Third and fourth nanosheets, which are to be channel regions of the switch transistors, are exposed from third and fourth gate interconnects, respectively, at faces on the sides opposed to each other in the X direction.
Claims6
A semiconductor storage device including first and second memory cells adjacent to each other in a first direction, the first and second memory cells being nonvolatile, comprising:
- first and second word lines extending in the first direction;
- and
- first and second bit lines extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,
- wherein
- the first memory cell includes
- a first program transistor with a gate connected to the first word line, and
- a first switch transistor, provided between the first program transistor and the first bit line, with a gate connected to the second word line,
- the second memory cell includes
- a second program transistor with a gate connected to the first word line, and
- a second switch transistor, provided between the second program transistor and the second bit line, with a gate connected to the second word line,
- the first and second program transistors are nanosheet field effect transistors (FETs) having first and second nanosheets, respectively, as channel regions,
- the first and second switch transistors are nanosheet FETs having third and fourth nanosheets, respectively, as channel regions,
- the first word line includes a first gate interconnect surrounding peripheries of the first nanosheet in the first direction and a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions and a second gate interconnect surrounding peripheries of the second nanosheet in the first direction and the third direction,
- the second word line includes a third gate interconnect surrounding peripheries of the third nanosheet in the first direction and the third direction and a fourth gate interconnect surrounding peripheries of the fourth nanosheet in the first direction and the third direction,
- the first and second nanosheets are opposed to each other in the first direction, a face of the first nanosheet on a side closer to the second nanosheet in the first direction is exposed from the first gate interconnect, and a face of the second nanosheet on a side closer to the first nanosheet in the first direction is exposed from the second gate interconnect, and
- the third and fourth nanosheets are opposed to each other in the first direction, a face of the third nanosheet on a side closer to the fourth nanosheet in the first direction is exposed from the third gate interconnect, and a face of the fourth nanosheet on a side closer to the third nanosheet in the first direction is exposed from the fourth gate interconnect.
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