US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 29 for "Three-dimensional memory device with intermetallic barrier liner and methods for forming the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,299, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional memory device with intermetallic barrier liner and methods for forming the same" was invented by Rahul Sharangpani (Fremont, Calif.) and Raghuveer S. Makala (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, and memory opening fill structures located in the memory openings. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes a vertical stack of me...