Patent ID: 11901287
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A microelectronic device, comprising:
a stack structure comprising a vertically alternating sequence of insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers comprising at least one of the conductive structures and at least one of the insulative structures;
stadiums within the stack structure, at least one of the stadiums comprising two staircases having steps provided by a group of the conductive structures, each of the conductive structures of the group individually providing a continuous conductive region across the two staircases of the at least one of the stadiums; and
step contacts extending to the steps of the two staircases of the at least one of the stadiums, each conductive structure of the group of conductive structures having more than one of the step contacts in contact therewith at at least one of the steps of the two staircases.