Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Single poly non-volatile memory cells
- Patent Title (中): 单个多晶非易失性存储单元
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Application No.: US13449822Application Date: 2012-04-18
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Publication No.: US09281313B2Publication Date: 2016-03-08
- Inventor: Rainer Herberholz
- Applicant: Rainer Herberholz
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
- Priority: GB1111916.1 20110712
- Main IPC: H01L27/115
- IPC: H01L27/115

Abstract:
A non-volatile memory cell that includes a semiconductor substrate; a coupling capacitor located in a first active region of the semiconductor substrate; and at a shared second active region of the semiconductor substrate, a sense transistor and a tunnelling capacitor configured in parallel with the gate of the sense transistor. The coupling capacitor, sense transistor and tunnelling capacitor share a common floating gate electrode and the sense transistor includes source and drain regions arranged such that the tunnelling capacitor is defined by an overlap between the floating gate electrode and the drain region of the sense transistor. Word-line contacts may be to a separate active area from the coupling capacitor. This and/or other features can help to reduce Frenkel-Poole conduction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130015514A1 SINGLE POLY NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELLS Public/Granted day:2013-01-17
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