摘要:
A semiconductor device includes semiconductor substrate, isolation insulating film, nonvolatile memory cells, each of the cells including tunnel insulating film, FG electrode, CG electrode, interelectrode insulating film between the CG and FG electrodes and including a first insulating film and a second insulating film on the first insulating film and having higher permittivity than the first insulating film, the interelectrode insulating film being provided on a side wall of the floating gate electrode in a cross-section view of a channel width direction of the cell, thickness of the interelectrode insulating film increasing from an upper portion of the side wall toward a lower portion of the side wall, thickness of the second insulating film on an upper corner of the FG electrode being thicker than thickness of the second insulating film on the other portions of the side wall in the cross-section view of the channel width direction.
摘要:
Claimed and disclosed is a semiconductor device including a transistor having a gate insulating film structure containing nitrogen or fluorine in a compound, such as metal silicate, containing metal, silicon and oxygen, a gate insulating film structure having a laminated structure of an amorphous metal oxide film and metal silicate film, or a gate insulating film structure having a first gate insulating film including an oxide film of a first metal element and a second gate insulating film including a metal silicate film of a second metal element.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode, a first insulating film formed between the semiconductor substrate and the gate electrode, and a second insulating film formed along a top surface or a side surface of the gate electrode and including a lower silicon nitride film containing nitrogen, silicon and hydrogen and an upper silicon nitride film formed on the lower silicon nitride film and containing nitrogen, silicon and hydrogen, and wherein a composition ratio N/Si of nitrogen (N) to silicon (Si) in the lower silicon nitride film is higher than that in the upper silicon nitride film.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation insulation film filled in a plurality of trenches formed in the semiconductor substrate to define a plurality of element formation regions, a floating gate of polysilicon provided on each of the element formation regions through a first insulation film, a second insulation film, provided on the floating gate, containing a metal element, a control gate of polysilicon, provided on the second insulation film, and source/drain regions provided in the semiconductor substrate, both a polysilicon conductive layer containing a metal element and a mutual diffusion layer composed of a silicate layer of a mixed oxide material composed of a silicon element contained in the floating gate and the control gate and a metal element contained in the second insulation film are provided on a surface of each of the floating gate and the control gate, respectively.
摘要:
There is disclosed a semiconductor device including a plurality of memory cell transistors, each memory cell transistor including a floating gate electrode isolated from each other via an isolation insulating film every memory cell transistor, an inter-electrode insulating film comprising a HfxAl1-xOy film (0.8≦x≦0.95) formed on the floating gate electrode, and a control gate electrode formed on the inter-electrode insulating film, wherein the memory cell transistors are arrayed to form a memory cell array.
摘要翻译:公开了一种包括多个存储单元晶体管的半导体器件,每个存储单元晶体管包括通过每个存储单元晶体管的隔离绝缘膜彼此隔离的浮栅,包括Hf x 形成在浮置栅电极上的Al 1-x O O y O y膜(0.8 <= x <= 0.95),以及形成在栅极上的控制栅电极 - 电极绝缘膜,其中存储单元晶体管被排列以形成存储单元阵列。
摘要:
A semiconductor device includes semiconductor substrate, isolation insulating film, nonvolatile memory cells, each of the cells including tunnel insulating film, FG electrode, CG electrode, interelectrode insulating film between the CG and FG electrodes and including a first insulating film and a second insulating film on the first insulating film and having higher permittivity than the first insulating film, the interelectrode insulating film being provided on a side wall of the floating gate electrode in a cross-section view of a channel width direction of the cell, thickness of the interelectrode insulating film increasing from an upper portion of the side wall toward a lower portion of the side wall, thickness of the second insulating film on an upper corner of the FG electrode being thicker than thickness of the second insulating film on the other portions of the side wall in the cross-section view of the channel width direction.
摘要:
A plurality of memory cell transistors each of which has a gate structure having a floating gate electrode formed of a first conductive film and stacked on an element region surrounded by an element isolation region on a silicon substrate with a first insulating film disposed therebetween and a control gate electrode formed of a second conductive film and stacked on the first conductive film with a second insulating film with a large dielectric constant disposed therebetween are arranged in a memory cell array. A detrap pulse supply circuit generates and supplies a detrap pulse signal to the control gate electrode of the memory cell transistor to extract charges from the second insulating film after data is written into each of the memory cell transistors.
摘要:
A semiconductor memory encompasses a memory cell matrix, which embraces device isolation films running along the column-direction, arranged alternatively between the cell columns; first conductive layers having top surfaces lower than the device isolation films; inter-electrode dielectrics arranged on the corresponding first conductive layers, the inter-electrode dielectric has a dielectric constant larger than that of silicon oxide; and second conductive layers running along the row-direction, each of the second conductive layers arranged on the inter-electrode dielectric and the device isolation films so that the second conductive layer can be shared by the memory cell transistors arranged along the row-direction belonging to different cell columns.
摘要:
A semiconductor device includes an interelectrode insulating film formed between a charge storage layer and a control electrode layer. The interelectrode insulating film is formed in a first region above an upper surface of an element isolation insulating film, a second region along a sidewall of the charge storage layer, and a third region above an upper surface of the charge storage layer. The interelectrode insulating film includes a first stack including a first silicon nitride film or a high dielectric constant film interposed between a first and a second silicon oxide film or a second stack including a second high dielectric constant film and a third silicon oxide film, and a second silicon nitride film formed between the control electrode layer and the first or the second stack. The second silicon nitride film is relatively thinner in the third region than in the first region.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor region, a tunnel insulator provided above the semiconductor region, a charge storage insulator provided above the tunnel insulator, a block insulator provided above the charge storage insulator, a control gate electrode provided above the block insulator, and an interface region including a metal element, the interface region being provided at one interface selected from between the semiconductor region and the tunnel insulator, the tunnel insulator and the charge storage insulator, the charge storage insulator and the block insulator, and the block insulator and the control gate electrode.