摘要:
The semiconductor memory device has a substrate with a main surface, on which parallel trenches are arranged. A memory layer is disposed at the sidewalls of the trenches, and gate electrodes are disposed in the trenches. Buried bitlines are formed as doped regions between neighboring trenches. The buried bitlines abut the sidewalls of the trenches and comprise upper surfaces, which are arranged at a specified distance from the bottom of the trenches. Source/drain regions are formed by sections of the buried bitlines.
摘要:
A memory device includes an array of memory cells that include a memory element having a non-reactive resistance whose magnitude is programmable to assume a high-resistance state or a low-resistance state. Sets of first and second lines provide access to the memory cells, wherein the memory element of each memory cell is coupled between one of the first lines and one of the second lines. A checking unit determines whether to invert data values to be stored in memory cells coupled to at least a section of respective ones of the first lines based on a number of memory cells that would be programmed in the high-resistance state or the low-resistance state as a result of the data values in order to reduce the number memory cells programmed in the low-resistance state and the resulting leakage current.
摘要:
Transistor bodies of semiconductor material located at a main surface of a semiconductor substrate between shallow trench isolations are provided with a rounded or curved upper surface. A floating gate electrode is arranged above said upper surface and electrically insulated from the semiconductor material by a tunnel dielectric having essentially the same tiny thickness throughout a primary tunnel area encompassing the area of curvature. The floating gate electrode may bridge the transistor body and is covered with a coupling dielectric provided for a control gate electrode, which forms part of a wordline.
摘要:
The storage layer (6) is in each case present above a region in which the channel region (3) adjoins a source/drain region (2) and is in each case interrupted above an intervening middle part of the channel region (3). The storage layer (6) is formed by material of the gate dielectric (4) and contains silicon or germanium nanocrystals or nanodots introduced through ion implantation. The gate electrode (5) is widened at the flanks by electrically conductive spacers (7).
摘要:
The present invention relates to a flash memory cell comprising a silicon substrate having an active region comprising a channel region and source-/drain-regions, the active region comprising a projecting portion, which projecting portion at least comprising said channel region; a tunneling dielectric layer formed on the surface of said active region; a floating gate formed on the surface of said tunneling dielectric layer for storing electric charges; an inter-gates coupling dielectric layer formed on the surface of said floating gate, and a control gate formed on the surface of said inter-gates coupling dielectric layer, wherein said floating gate is formed to have a groove-like shape for at least partly encompassing said projecting portion of said active region. This invention further relates to a flash memory device comprising such flash memory cells, as well as a manufacturing method thereof.
摘要:
The invention provides an integration scheme for a memory cell array, especially a charge-trapping memory cell array, comprising an architecture of local interconnects, which enables to avoid nitride insulations of wordline stacks and to produce CMOS devices of different structures and dimensions in standard technology along with the tinier memory cell transistors.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory with a volatile memory device, in particular a DRAM memory device, and with a non-volatile memory device. The volatile memory device is electrically coupled with the non-volatile memory device, and the non-volatile memory device has a polymer memory device adapted to be switched between two states of information.
摘要:
In the case of this semiconductor memory having NROM cells, the channel regions of the memory transistors in each case run transversely with respect to the relevant word line, the bit lines are arranged on the top side of the word lines and in a manner electrically insulated from the latter, and electrically conductive cross-connections are present, which are arranged in sections in interspaces between the word lines and in a manner electrically insulated from the latter and are connected to the bit lines in each case in next but one sequence.
摘要:
A trench (2) is fabricated in a silicon body (1). The walls (4) of the trench are provided with a nitrogen implantation (6). An oxide layer between the source/drain regions (5) and a word line applied on the top side grows to a greater thickness than a lower oxide layer of an ONO storage layer fabricated as gate dielectric at the trench wall. Instead of the nitrogen implantation into the trench walls, it is possible to fabricate a metal silicide layer on the top sides of the source/drain regions in order to accelerate the oxide growth there.
摘要:
A memory cell array comprises a plurality of memory transistors arranged in a two-dimensional array, each memory transistor having two source/drain regions arranged in a first direction of the memory cell array with a channel substrate region therebetween, and a gate structure arranged above the channel substrate region. The source/drain regions and channel substrate regions are formed in a substrate arranged on an insulating layer, with the channel substrate regions of memory transistors adjacent each other in the first direction being separated from each other by respective source/drain regions extending down to the insulating layer. The source/drain regions and the channel substrate regions of memory transistors adjacent each other in a second direction of the memory cell array furthermore are isolated from each other by trenches filled with insulating material and formed in the substrate so as to extend down to the insulating layer.