Non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorMutsumi OKAJIMA
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, dry etching is performed so that an upper-layer wiring material layer, a memory-layer constituting layer, and an interlayer insulating film are processed to form a pattern including a line-and-space pattern extending in a second direction and a dummy pattern connecting line patterns constituting the line-and-space pattern in a memory cell formation region and an upper-layer wiring hookup region. Then, the dummy pattern is removed.
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A method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device including a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction, a plurality of second wirings extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a non-volatile memory cell array layer where a plurality of non-volatile memory cells are arranged at intersection portions of the first wirings and the second wirings so to be interposed, the method comprising:
- sequentially stacking a first wiring material layer which is to be the first wiring and a memory-layer constituting layer constituting the non-volatile memory cell above a substrate;
- performing dry etching so that the memory-layer constituting layer and the first wiring material layer are etched to form a first pattern having a first line-and-space pattern extending in the first direction in a memory cell formation region and a first wiring hookup region adjacent in the first direction of the memory cell formation region and so that the memory-layer constituting layer and the first wiring material layer are removed in a second wiring hookup region adjacent in the second direction of the memory cell formation region;
- forming an interlayer insulating film to be embedded between line patterns constituting the first line-and-space pattern in the memory cell formation region and the first wiring hookup region and forming an interlayer insulating film in a region which is removed by the dry etching in the second wiring hookup region;
- forming a second wiring material layer which is to be the second wiring on the interlayer insulating film and the memory-layer constituting layer;
- performing dry etching so that the second wiring material layer, the memory-layer constituting layer, and the interlayer insulating film are processed to form a second pattern including a second line-and-space pattern extending in the second direction and a first dummy pattern connecting line patterns constituting the second line-and-space pattern in the memory cell formation region and the second wiring hookup region and so that the second wiring material layer and the memory-layer constituting layer are removed in the first wiring hookup region;
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- removing the first dummy pattern.
A method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory device including a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction, a plurality of second wirings extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a non-volatile memory cell array layer where a plurality of non-volatile memory cells are arranged at intersection portions of the first wirings and the second wirings so to be interposed, the method comprising:
- sequentially stacking a first wiring material layer which is to be the first wiring and a first memory-layer constituting layer constituting the non-volatile memory cell above a substrate;
- performing dry etching so that the first memory-layer constituting layer and the first wiring material layer are etched to form a first pattern having a first line-and-space pattern extending in the first direction in a memory cell formation region and a first wiring hookup region adjacent in the first direction of the memory cell formation region and so that the first memory-layer constituting layer and the first wiring material layer are removed in a second wiring hookup region adjacent in the second direction of the memory cell formation region;
- forming a first interlayer insulating film to be embedded between line patterns constituting the first line-and-space pattern in the memory cell formation region and the first wiring hookup region and forming the first interlayer insulating film in a region which is removed by the dry etching in the second wiring hookup region;
- sequentially stacking a second wiring material layer which is to be the second wiring and a second memory-layer constituting layer constituting the non-volatile memory cell on the first interlayer insulating film and the first memory-layer constituting layer;
- performing dry etching so that the second memory-layer constituting layer, the second wiring material layer, the first memory-layer constituting layer, and the first interlayer insulating film are processed to form a second pattern including a second line-and-space pattern extending in the second direction and a first dummy pattern connecting line patterns constituting the second line-and-space pattern in the memory cell formation region and the second wiring hookup region, and so that the second memory-layer constituting layer, the second wiring material layer, the first memory-layer constituting layer, and the first interlayer insulating film are removed in first wiring hookup region;
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- removing the first dummy pattern.
A non-volatile memory device comprising:
- a memory cell formation region including a memory cell array layer where a plurality of non-volatile memory cells are formed in a matrix shape;
- a first wiring hookup region where a plurality of first wirings extending in a first direction are connected to the non-volatile memory cells in the memory cell formation region and are extracted out from the memory cell formation region;
- a second wiring hookup region where a plurality of second wirings extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction are connected to the non-volatile memory cells in an upper layer above the first wiring in the memory cell formation region and are extracted out from the memory cell formation region;
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- a first dummy wiring which is arranged at a position separated from the end portion of the second wiring opposite to the side of the second wiring hookup region in the same layer as that of the second wiring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.