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20080258205 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - An erase current of a non-volatile semiconductor memory device is decreased. A memory cell of the non-volatile semiconductor memory device comprises a source region and a drain region formed in a semiconductor substrate. Over a portion of the semiconductor substrate between the source region and the drain region, a select gate electrode is formed via a gate dielectric film. On a side wall of the select gate electrode, a memory gate electrode is formed via a bottom silicon oxide film and a charge-trapping silicon oxynitride film. In the memory cell configured as above, erase operation is performed as follows. By applying a positive voltage to the memory gate electrode, holes are injected from the memory gate electrode into the silicon oxynitride film to decrease a threshold voltage in a program state to a certain level. Thereafter, hot holes generated by a band-to-band tunneling phenomenon are injected into the silicon oxynitride film and the erase operation is completed. | 10-23-2008 |
20080265286 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A memory cell includes an ONO film composed of a stacked film of a silicon nitride film SIN which is a charge trapping portion and oxide films BOTOX and TOPOX positioned under and over the silicon nitride film, a memory gate electrode MG over the ONO film, a source region MS, and a drain region MD, and program or erase is performed by hot carrier injection in the memory cell. In the memory cell, a total concentration of N—H bonds and Si—H bonds contained in the silicon nitride film SIN is made to be 5×10 | 10-30-2008 |
20080290401 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICES WITH CHARGE INJECTION CORNER - An erase method where a corner portion on which an electric field concentrates locally is provided on the memory gate electrode, and charges in the memory gate electrode are injected into a charge trap film in a gate dielectric with Fowler-Nordheim tunneling operation is used. Since current consumption at the time of erase can be reduced by the Fowler-Nordheim tunneling, a power supply circuit area of a memory module can be reduced. Since write disturb resistance can be improved, a memory array area can be reduced by adopting a simpler memory array configuration. Owing to both the effects, an area of the memory module can be largely reduced, so that manufacturing cost can be reduced. Further, since charge injection centers of write and erase coincide with each other, so that (program and erase) endurance is improved. | 11-27-2008 |
20090050955 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A charge storage layer interposed between a memory gate electrode and a semiconductor substrate is formed shorter than a gate length of the memory gate electrode or a length of insulating films so as to make the overlapping amount of the charge storage layer and a source region to be less than 40 nm. Therefore, in the write state, since the movement in the transverse direction of the electrons and the holes locally existing in the charge storage layer decreases, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding a high temperature can be reduced. In addition, the effective channel length is made to be 30 nm or less so as to reduce an apparent amount of holes so that coupling of the electrons with the holes in the charge storage layer decreases; therefore, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding at room temperature can be reduced. | 02-26-2009 |
20090050956 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - In a memory cell including an nMIS for memory formed on the sides of an nMIS for select and an nMIS for select via dielectric films and a charge storage layer, the thickness of a gate dielectric under the gate longitudinal direction end of a select gate electrode is formed thicker than that of the gate dielectric under the gate longitudinal direction center and the thickness of the lower layer dielectric film that is positioned between the select gate electrode and the charge storage layer and is nearest to a semiconductor substrate is formed 1.5 times or below of the thickness of the lower layer dielectric film positioned between the semiconductor substrate and the charge storage layer. | 02-26-2009 |
20100322013 | Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Device - In a situation where a memory cell includes an ONO film, which comprises a silicon nitride film for charge storage and oxide films positioned above and below the silicon nitride film; a memory gate above the ONO film; a select gate, which is adjacent to a lateral surface of the memory gate via the ONO film; a gate insulator positioned below the select gate; a source region; and a drain region, an erase operation is performed by injecting holes generated by BTBT into the silicon nitride film while applying a positive potential to the source region, applying a negative potential to the memory gate, applying a positive potential to the select gate, and flowing a current from the drain region to the source region, thus improving the characteristics of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. | 12-23-2010 |
20110235419 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - In a split gate MONOS memory which carries out rewrite by hot carrier injection, retention characteristics are improved. A select gate electrode of a memory cell is connected to a select gate line, and a memory gate electrode is connected to a memory gate line. A drain region is connected to a bit line, and a source region is connected to a source line. Furthermore, a well line is connected to a p type well region in which the memory cell is formed. When write to the memory cell is to be carried out, write by a source side injection method is carried out while applying a negative voltage to the p type well region via the well line. | 09-29-2011 |
20130140622 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A charge storage layer interposed between a memory gate electrode and a semiconductor substrate is formed shorter than a gate length of the memory gate electrode or a length of insulating films so as to make the overlapping amount of the charge storage layer and a source region to be less than 40 nm. Therefore, in the write state, since the movement in the transverse direction of the electrons and the holes locally existing in the charge storage layer decreases, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding a high temperature can be reduced. In addition, the effective channel length is made to be 30 nm or less so as to reduce an apparent amount of holes so that coupling of the electrons with the holes in the charge storage layer decreases; therefore, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding at room temperature can be reduced. | 06-06-2013 |
20140092688 | Non-Volatile Semiconductor Storage Device - In a split gate MONOS memory which carries out rewrite by hot carrier injection, retention characteristics are improved. A select gate electrode of a memory cell is connected to a select gate line, and a memory gate electrode is connected to a memory gate line. A drain region is connected to a bit line, and a source region is connected to a source line. Furthermore, a well line is connected to a p type well region in which the memory cell is formed. When write to the memory cell is to be carried out, write by a source side injection method is carried out while applying a negative voltage to the p type well region via the well line. | 04-03-2014 |
20140322874 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A charge storage layer interposed between a memory gate electrode and a semiconductor substrate is formed shorter than a gate length of the memory gate electrode or a length of insulating films so as to make the overlapping amount of the charge storage layer and a source region to be less than 40 nm. Therefore, in the write state, since the movement in the transverse direction of the electrons and the holes locally existing in the charge storage layer decreases, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding a high temperature can be reduced. In addition, the effective channel length is made to be 30 nm or less so as to reduce an apparent amount of holes so that coupling of the electrons with the holes in the charge storage layer decreases; therefore, the variation of the threshold voltage when holding at room temperature can be reduced. | 10-30-2014 |
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20090014775 | SEMICONDUCTOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - An operation scheme for operating stably a semiconductor nonvolatile memory device is provided. | 01-15-2009 |
20090152619 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided is a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a split gate structure, wherein a memory gate is formed over a convex shaped substrate and side surfaces of it is used as a channel. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to the present invention is excellent in read current driving power even if a memory cell is scaled down. | 06-18-2009 |
20100105199 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING EMBEDDED NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE WITH SIDEWALL GATE - A method of manufacturing a non-volatile semiconductor memory device is provided which overcomes a problem of penetration of implanted ions due to the difference of optimal gate height in simultaneous formation of a self-align split gate type memory cell utilizing a side wall structure and a scaled MOS transistor. A select gate electrode to form a side wall in a memory area is formed to be higher than that of the gate electrode in a logic area so that the height of the side wall gate electrode of the self-align split gate memory cell is greater than that of the gate electrode in the logic area. Height reduction for the gate electrode is performed in the logic area before gate electrode formation. | 04-29-2010 |
20100232231 | SEMICONDUCTOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - An operation scheme for operating stably a semiconductor nonvolatile memory device is provided. | 09-16-2010 |
20120026798 | SEMICONDUCTOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - An operation scheme for operating stably a semiconductor nonvolatile memory device is provided. | 02-02-2012 |
20130065368 | NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING EMBEDDED NON-VOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE WITH SIDEWALL GATE - A method of manufacturing a non-volatile semiconductor memory device is provided which overcomes a problem of penetration of implanted ions due to the difference of an optimal gate height in simultaneous formation of a self-align split gate type memory cell utilizing a side wall structure and a scaled MOS transistor. A select gate electrode to form a side wall in a memory area is formed to be higher than that of the gate electrode in a logic area so that the height of the side wall gate electrode of the self-align split gate memory cell is greater than that of the gate electrode in the logic area. Height reduction for the gate electrode is performed in the logic area before gate electrode formation. | 03-14-2013 |