Invention Grant
- Patent Title: NAND flash memory
- Patent Title (中): NAND闪存
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Application No.: US12727817Application Date: 2010-03-19
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Publication No.: US08179720B2Publication Date: 2012-05-15
- Inventor: Koichi Fukuda , Yasuhiko Matsunaga
- Applicant: Koichi Fukuda , Yasuhiko Matsunaga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-070701 20090323
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34

Abstract:
A NAND flash memory includes a NAND string and a control circuit, wherein in a write operation, the control circuit applies a writing voltage between a control gate of a selected memory cell to be written and a semiconductor well, and after the write operation and before performing a verification read operation of verifying whether data has been written into the selected memory cell, the control circuit performs a de-trapping operation, in which a first voltage of a same potential as that of the semiconductor well or a same polarity as that of the writing voltage is applied to the control gate of the selected memory cell and in which a second voltage of a same polarity as that of the writing voltage and larger than the first voltage as an absolute value is applied to a control gate of unselected memory cells not to be written.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100238733A1 NAND FLASH MEMORY Public/Granted day:2010-09-23
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