Abstract:
A method is described for manufacturing electrically non active structures of an integrated electronic circuit (1) formed on a semiconductor substrate (7) comprising first electrically active structures (2) which comprise electric components provided with conductive elements (16) of a first height (H1) projecting from said semiconductor substrate (7) and second electrically active structures (3) which comprise electric components provided with conductive elements (20) of a second height (H2) projecting from said semiconductor substrate (7), said first height being different from said second height, the method comprising the steps of: - introducing, into the integrated electronic circuit (1), electrically non active structures (4) to superficially uniform the integrated electronic circuit (1), - identifying, between the electrically non active structures (4), a first group (5) of electrically non active structures which is formed by those electrically non active structures comprised in areas (5a) which substantially extend for a predetermined radius (R) around each electric component belonging to the second electrically active structures (3), - identifying, between the electrically non active structures (4), a second group (6) of electrically non active structures comprising electrically non active structures not belonging to the first group (5) of electrically non active structures, - forming the electrically non active structures belonging to the first group (5) of electrically non active structures with elements (20a) projecting from the substrate (7) having a height equal to the second height (H2), - forming the electrically non active structures belonging to the second group (6) of electrically non active structures with elements (16a) projecting from the substrate (7) having a height equal to the first height (H1), the elements (16a, 20a) belonging to the first (5) and second group (6) of electrically non active structures being formed by means of respective photolithographic steps.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing electrically non-active structures of an electronic circuit integrated on a semiconductor substrate (5) comprising first electrically active structures (6) and second electrically active structures (7), comprising the steps of:
inserting, in the electronic circuit, electrically non-active structures (8) to uniform the surface of the electronic circuit, the method being characterised in that it comprises the following further steps: identifying, between the electrically non-active structures (8), a first group (9) of electrically non-active structures adjacent to the first (6) and second (7) electrically active structures, identifying, between the electrically non-active structures (8), a second group (10) of electrically non-active structures not adjacent to the first (6) and second (7) electrically active structures, defining, on the semiconductor substrate, the first (9) and second (10) group of electrically non-active structures through different photolithographic steps.
Abstract:
A sealing method for electronic devices such as flash memory cells (4) and CMOS transistors (5) formed on a common semiconductor substrate (1) comprising the steps of:
forming at least a first conductive layer (7,9) on a first portion of semiconductor substrate (1), forming a second conductive layer (11) on a second portion of semiconductor substrate (1), defining a first plurality of gate regions (4a) of the memory cells (4) in at least a first conductive layer (7), forming a first sealing layer (14) on the whole semiconductor substrate (1) to seal the first plurality of gate regions (4a), defining a second plurality of gate regions (5a) of the CMOS transistors (5) in the second conductive layer (11), forming a second sealing layer (16) on the whole semiconductor substrate (1) to seal the second plurality of gate regions (5a).
Abstract:
An electrically erasable and programmable non-volatile memory cell (205) integrated in a chip of semiconductor material (300) is proposed. The memory cell includes a floating gate MOS transistor (210m) having a source region (335) and a drain region (325) formed in a first well (315), a channel (340) being defined between the drain region and the source region during operation of the memory cell, a control gate region (350), and a floating gate (355) extending over the channel and the control gate region, and a bipolar transistor (215) for injecting an electric charge into the floating gate, the bipolar transistor having an emitter region (365) formed in the first well, a base region consisting of the first well, and a collector region consisting of the channel, wherein the memory cell further includes a second well (320) insulated from the first well, the control gate region being formed in the second well.
Abstract:
Method of fabrication of a no-field transistor with no extra process costs, providing for defining an active area for the transistor surrounded by a thick field oxide layer (3), insulatively placing a polysilicon gate electrode (40) across the active area to define source/drain regions (50) of the no-field transistor, providing an implant protection mask (60) over a boundary (2) between at least one of the source/drain regions and the field oxide layer, selectively implanting in said source/drain regions a relatively heavy dose of dopants to form relatively heavily doped source/drain regions and to simultaneously dope the polysilicon gate electrode, characterized in that said polysilicon gate electrode is formed with lateral wings (41) extending towards said at least one source/drain region, and in that said implant protection mask (60) extends over said lateral wings but not over the polysilicon gate (40).