摘要:
In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of forming a NAND type flash memory device, involving the steps of growing a first oxide layer over at least a portion of a substrate, the substrate including a flash memory cell area and a select gate area; removing a portion of the first oxide layer in the flash memory cell area of the substrate; growing a second oxide layer over at least a portion of the substrate in the flash memory cell area and over at least a portion of the a first oxide layer in the select gate area; depositing a first in situ doped amorphous silicon layer over at least a portion of the second oxide layer, the first in situ doped amorphous silicon layer having a thickness from about 400 to about 1,000; depositing a dielectric layer over at least a portion of the first in situ doped amorphous silicon layer; depositing a second doped amorphous silicon layer over at least a portion of the dielectric layer; and forming a flash memory cell in the flash memory cell area of the substrate and a select gate transistor in the select gate area substrate, the flash memory cell comprising the second oxide layer, the first in situ doped amorphous silicon layer, the dielectric layer, and the second doped amorphous silicon layer, and the select gate transistor comprising the first oxide layer, second oxide layer, the first in situ doped amorphous silicon layer, the dielectric layer, and the second doped amorphous silicon layer.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method and a NAND-type flash memory device. The method includes forming a select gate oxide layer in a select transistor area of a substrate and a tunnel oxide layer in a memory cell area of the substrate; forming a doped amorphous silicon layer on the select gate oxide layer and the tunnel oxide layer, the doped amorphous silicon layer having a dopant level which simultaneously avoids a select transistor word line high resistance problem and a charge gain/charge loss problem; forming an insulating layer on the doped amorphous silicon layer; forming a control gate layer on the insulating layer; and etching at least the doped amorphous silicon layer, the insulating layer, and the control gate layer to form at least one memory cell stack structure and at least one select transistor stack structure. In a preferred embodiment, the polysilicon layer which forms both the floating gate of the flash memory cell and the select gate of the select transistor of the device is doped with between approximately 5 x 1018 and 8 x 1019 ions/cm3 of phosphorus. With this dopant level, the contact resistance of the select transistor's control gate is low, thus keeping the word line resistivity of the device low. Simultaneously, contamination of the tunnel oxide of the flash memory cell by the dopant is limited, allowing for the interface between the floating gate and the tunnel oxide to be smooth, which prevents charge gain/loss problems. Thus, the reliability of the device is increased.
摘要:
In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of forming a NAND type flash memory device, involving the steps of growing a first oxide layer over at least a portion of a substrate, the substrate including a core region and a periphery region, the core region including a flash memory cell area and a select gate area and the periphery region including a high voltage transistor area and low voltage transistor area; depositing a first doped amorphous silicon layer over at least a portion of the first oxide layer; depositing a dielectric layer over at least a portion of the first doped amorphous silicon layer; removing portions of the first oxide layer, the first doped amorphous silicon layer, and the dielectric layer in the select gate area of the core region and the high voltage transistor area and the low voltage transistor area the periphery region; growing a second oxide layer over at least a portion of the substrate in the select gate area of the core region and the high voltage transistor area and the low voltage transistor area the periphery region; removing portions of the second oxide layer in the select gate area of the core region and the low voltage transistor area the periphery region; growing a third oxide layer over at least a portion of the substrate in the select gate area of the core region and the low voltage transistor area of the periphery region; depositing a second doped amorphous silicon layer over at least a portion of the dielectric layer, the second oxide layer and the third oxide layer; and forming a flash memory cell in the flash memory cell area of the core region, a select gate transistor in the select gate area of the core region, a low voltage transistor in the low voltage transistor area of the periphery region, and a high voltage transistor in the high voltage transistor area of the periphery region.
摘要:
A semiconductor process for fabricating NAND type flash memory devices in a first embodiment includes step which can be performed on a production line which manufactures NOR type flash memory products. A NAND flash memory fabrication process according to a second embodiment simplifies the process and uses fewer masks, thus reducing costs and errors to produce higher yields.