Patent ID: 11935604
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method of stabilizing a selector device of a memory array of a memory device, the method comprising:
performing a selected erase operation on at least one data memory cell of a selected string of cells of the memory array, the selected erase operation including an erase verify procedure; and
generating, using one or more drivers directly following completion of the selected erase operation to the selected string, the completion completing erasure of the at least one data memory cell of the selected string, a selector signal simultaneously both to a selector device of the selected string and to a dummy memory cell of multiple memory cells of the string, with the dummy memory cell being directly adjacent to the selector device in the selected string, with memory cells in the string, other than the dummy memory cell, maintained as unselected.