Memory devices having vertical transistors and fabricating methods thereof

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor devices and fabricating methods are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes an array of vertical transistors. Each vertical transistor includes a semiconductor body extending in a vertical direction, and an all-around gate structure laterally surrounding the semiconductor body. Each row of the vertical transistors in a first lateral direction share a common word line extending in the first lateral direction and comprising the all-around gate structures of the row of the vertical transistors. Adjacent rows of the vertical transistors are misaligned along a second lateral direction perpendicular with the first lateral direction. The array of vertical transistors are aligned along a third lateral direction different from the first lateral direction and the second lateral direction.

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