Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device
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Application No.: US14615881Application Date: 2015-02-06
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Publication No.: US09208884B2Publication Date: 2015-12-08
- Inventor: Hitoshi Iwai
- Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Applicant Address: JP Minato-ku
- Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Current Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Minato-ku
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-211865 20100922
- Main IPC: G11C16/04
- IPC: G11C16/04 ; H01L27/115 ; H01L29/792 ; G11C16/10 ; G11C16/14

Abstract:
A control circuit is configured to, during an erase operation, set a voltage of a first line connected to a selected cell unit to a voltage larger than a voltage of a gate of a first transistor included in the selected cell unit by an amount of a first voltage. The control circuit is configured to, during the erase operation, set a voltage difference between a voltage of a first line connected to an unselected cell unit and a voltage of a gate of a first transistor included in the unselected cell unit to a second voltage, the second voltage differing from the first voltage. In addition, the control circuit is configured to, during the erase operation, apply in the selected cell unit and the unselected cell unit a third voltage to a gate of at least one of dummy memory transistors in a dummy memory string, and apply a fourth voltage to a gate of another one of the dummy memory transistors in the dummy memory string, the fourth voltage being lower than the third voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150155038A1 NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-06-04
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