摘要:
In this invention, charges are extracted from the charge storage portion by means of F-N tunnel current, and then avalanche hot carriers are injected into the storage portion.
摘要:
In this invention, charges are extracted from the charge storage portion by means of F-N tunnel current, and then avalanche hot carriers are injected into the storage portion.
摘要:
In this invention, charges are extracted from the charge storage portion by means of F-N tunnel current, and then avalanche hot carriers are injected into the storage portion.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. In the method of the present invention. Arsenic ions are implanted into an element region of a silicon substrate so as to form a first impurity region. Then, an insulating film is formed on the silicon substrate in the element region, followed by forming a heat resistant film on the entire surface of the silicon substrate. Further, a resist film is formed on the silicon substrate, followed by patterning the resist film to form an opening on at least the first impurity region. After the patterning step, the heat resistant film positioned below the opening of the resist film is removed, followed by implanting phosphorus ions into the substrate using the patterned resist film as a mask so as to form a second impurity region. In the next step, the resist film is removed and, then, annealing is applied with the heat resistant film used as a mask. After the annealing step, the resist film is removed, and an annealing is performed with the heat resistant film used as a mask, followed by removing the insulating film using the heat resistant film as a mask. Finally, a tunnel oxide film is formed on that portion of the silicon substrate, followed by forming an electrode on the tunnel oxide film so as to manufacture a desired nonvolatile semiconductor memory device.
摘要:
In a method of applying a voltage pulse for injecting/extracting electrons into/from a non-volatile semiconductor memory in which high and low levels of a threshold voltage corresponding to presence and absence of storage of electrons are caused to correspond to binary information, the method includes the steps of generating a plurality of voltage pulses each having an ability of injecting or extracting only a portion of all electrons to be stored, and applying the plurality of voltage pulses to the non-volatile semiconductor memory to thereby carry out injection/extraction of all the electrons.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor layer and a transistor. The transistor includes: a source region, a drain region, and a channel region provided in the semiconductor layer, the channel region being between the source and drain regions; a gate insulating film provided on the channel region; a charge layer provided on the gate insulating film, the charge layer having a side portion and a apical portion;an inter-electrode insulating film covering the side portion and the apical portion; and a control gate provided on the inter-electrode insulating film. The control gate includes: a side-portion conductive layer opposing the side portion; and an apical-portion conductive layer opposing the apical portion.The apical-portion conductive layer has a work function higher than a work function of the charge layer and higher than a work function of the side-portion conductive layer.
摘要:
In a data erasing method of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, cells are subjected to the processings of executing programming by applying a voltage to the cells to set their threshold values at a given level or more, erasing the cells to set their threshold values at a lower level or less, executing weak programming once on a cell whose threshold value is lower than a further lower level, by applying a lower voltage to the cell, repeating the weak programming on the cell when its threshold value is still lower than the further lower level, until the value reaches the further lower level or more, verifying whether a cell is present whose threshold value is higher than the lower level, and returning the processing to the processing of setting the threshold values of the cells at the lower level or less, when verifying that the above cell is present.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing an MOS transistor comprises the steps of forming a silicon nitride film on a central portion of a P-type silicon substrate, forming a first resist pattern on the semiconductor substrate and the film using a mask member having a central opening, ion-implanting a first impurity of P-type into the substrate using the first resist pattern and the film as masks, removing the first resist pattern from the semiconductor substrate, forming a second resist pattern on the substrate using the mask member, and ion-implanting a second impurity of P-type into the substrate at a low acceleration voltage using the second resist pattern as a mask. Then, a gate electrode is formed on the substrate and an impurity of n-type is implanted into the substrate to form source and drain regions of n-type.
摘要:
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes: memory cells; word lines connected to the memory cells; and a control circuit configured to control a data read operation. When controlling the data read operation, the control circuit applies one of read voltages to a selected word line, applies a first read pass voltage to a first non-selected word line connected to one of data-written memory cells, and applies a second read pass voltage to a second non-selected word line connected to a non-written memory cell. Each of the read voltages is set to a voltage between two threshold voltage distributions. The first read pass voltage is set so that the data-written memory cells become conductive. The second read pass voltage is set so as to be lower than a highest read voltage, the highest read voltage being the highest voltage among the read voltages.
摘要:
In a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells integrated on a semiconductor substrate, each of the memory cells includes a tunnel insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, a floating gate electrode formed on the tunnel insulating film, a first interelectrode insulating film formed on the upper surface of the floating gate electrode, a second interelectrode insulating film formed to cover the side surfaces of the floating gate electrode and the first interelectrode insulating film, and a control gate electrode formed on the second interelectrode insulating film.