ONO fabrication process for reducing oxygen vacancy content in bottom oxide layer in flash memory devices
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    发明授权
    ONO fabrication process for reducing oxygen vacancy content in bottom oxide layer in flash memory devices 有权
    ONO制造工艺,用于降低闪存器件底部氧化层中的氧空位

    公开(公告)号:US06803275B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-10-12

    申请号:US10308518

    申请日:2002-12-03

    IPC分类号: H01L21336

    摘要: Process for fabricating a SONOS flash memory device, including in one embodiment, forming a bottom oxide layer of an ONO structure on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the bottom oxide layer has a first oxygen vacancy content; treating the bottom oxide layer to decrease the first oxygen vacancy content to a second oxygen vacancy content; and depositing a dielectric charge-storage layer on the bottom oxide layer. In another embodiment, a process for fabricating a SONOS flash memory device includes forming a bottom oxide layer of an ONO structure on the semiconductor substrate under strongly oxidizing conditions, wherein the bottom oxide layer has a super-stoichiometric oxygen content and an oxygen vacancy content reduced relative to a bottom oxide layer formed by a conventional process; and depositing a dielectric charge-storage layer on the bottom oxide layer.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,包括在半导体衬底上形成ONO结构的底部氧化物层的SONOS闪速存储器件的制造方法,其中底部氧化物层具有第一氧空位含量; 处理底部氧化物层以将第一氧空位含量降低至第二氧空位含量; 以及在底部氧化物层上沉积介电电荷存储层。 在另一个实施例中,制造SONOS闪速存储器件的工艺包括在强氧化条件下在半导体衬底上形成ONO结构的底部氧化物层,其中底部氧化物层具有超化学计量的氧含量和氧空位含量降低 相对于通过常规方法形成的底部氧化物层; 以及在底部氧化物层上沉积介电电荷存储层。