Additional Control Electrode Is Doped Region In Semiconductor Substrate Patents (Class 257/318)
  • Patent number: 8581342
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with a field electrode and method. One embodiment provides a controllable semiconductor device including a control electrode for controlling the semiconductor device and a field electrode. The field electrode includes a number of longish segments which extend in a first lateral direction and which run substantially parallel to one another. The control electrode includes a number of longish segments extending in a second lateral direction and running substantially parallel to one another, wherein the first lateral direction is different from the second lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Oliver Haeberlen
  • Patent number: 8471325
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first memory portion and a second memory portion. The first electrode extends in a first direction and is provided on the substrate. The second electrode extends in a second direction crossing the first direction and is provided on the first electrode. The third electrode extends in a third direction crossing the second direction and is provided on the second electrode. The first memory portion is provided between the first and the second electrodes and has a first oxygen composition ratio and a first layer thickness. The second memory portion is provided between the second and the third electrodes and has at least one of a second oxygen composition ratio different from the first oxygen composition ratio and a second layer thickness different from the first layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukumizu, Noriko Bota
  • Patent number: 8471327
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory transistor includes an island-shaped semiconductor having a source region, a channel region, and a drain region formed in this order from the silicon substrate side, a floating gate arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the channel region with a tunnel insulating film interposed between the floating gate and the channel region, a control gate arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the floating gate with an inter-polysilicon insulating film interposed between the control gate and the floating gate, and a control gate line electrically connected to the control gate and extending in a predetermined direction. The inter-polysilicon insulating film is arranged so as to be interposed between the floating gate and the lower and inner side surfaces of the control gate and between the floating gate and the lower surface of the control gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Unisantis Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Fujio Masuoka, Hiroki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8436412
    Abstract: A pattern structure for a semiconductor device includes a plurality of first patterns, each of the first patterns extending in a first direction in the shape of a line, neighboring first patterns being spaced apart from each other by a gap distance, the plurality of first patterns including a plurality of trenches in parallel with the line shapes, respective trenches being between neighboring first patterns, the plurality of trenches including long trenches and short trenches alternately arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and at least a second pattern, the second pattern being coplanar with the first pattern, end portions of the first patterns being connected to the second pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon Moon Park, Jae Hwang Sim, Keon Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 8405137
    Abstract: Single transistor floating-body DRAM devices have a vertical channel transistor structure. The DRAM devices include a substrate, and first and second floating bodies disposed on the substrate and isolated from each other. A source region and a drain region are disposed under and above each of the first and second floating bodies. A gate electrode is disposed between the first and second floating bodies. Methods of fabricating the single transistor floating-body DRAM devices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zong-Liang Huo, Seung-Jae Baik, In-Seok Yeo, Hong-Sik Yoon, Shi-Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 8390052
    Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device having a source-side-injected split-gate type of nonvolatile memory cell which can be formed by a one-layer polysilicon CMOS process is provided. A memory cell includes a first memory cell unit including first and second diffusion regions formed on a semiconductor substrate surface, and first and second gate electrodes separately formed through a gate insulation film on a first channel region between the first and second diffusion regions, a second memory cell unit including third and fourth diffusion regions formed on the semiconductor substrate surface, and a third gate electrode formed through a gate insulation film on a second channel region between the third and fourth diffusion regions, and a control terminal. The first to third gate electrodes are formed of the same electrode material layer. The second and third gate electrodes are electrically connected to form a floating gate capacitively coupled to the control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8357968
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory semiconductor device having one end of an electricity supply line ESL arranged over a terminal end TE1 and the other end thereof arranged over a terminal end TE2, the central portion of the electricity supply line ESL being arranged over a dummy part DMY. The terminal end TE1, the terminal end TE2, and the dummy part DMY have substantially the same height, so that most of the electricity supply line ESL arranged from over the terminal end TE1 to over the terminal end TE2 via the dummy part DMY has the same height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiraku Chakihara, Tsutomu Okazaki
  • Patent number: 8344443
    Abstract: A single-poly non-volatile memory includes a PMOS select transistor (210) formed with a select gate (212), and P+ source and drain regions (211, 213) formed in a shared n-well region (240), a serially connected PMOS floating gate transistor (220) formed with part of a p-type floating gate layer (222) and P+ source and drain regions (221, 223) formed in the shared n-well region (240), and a coupling capacitor (230) formed over a p-well region (250) and connected to the PMOS floating gate transistor (220), where the coupling capacitor (230) includes a first capacitor plate formed with a second part of the p-type floating gate layer (222) and an underlying portion of the p-well region (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Weize Chen, Richard J. De Souza, Xin Lin, Patrice M. Parris
  • Patent number: 8338876
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory strings each having a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells connected in series. Each of the memory strings comprising: a first semiconductor layer including a columnar portion extending in a vertical direction with respect to a substrate; a plurality of first conductive layers formed to surround side surfaces of the columnar portions via insulation layers, and formed at a certain pitch in the vertical direction, the first conductive layers functioning as floating gates of the memory cells; and a plurality of second conductive layers formed to surround the first conductive layers via insulation layers, and functioning as control electrodes of the memory cells. Each of the first conductive layers has a length in the vertical direction that is shorter than a length in the vertical direction of each of the second conductive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaru Kito, Yoshiaki Fukuzumi, Masaru Kidoh, Megumi Ishiduki, Yosuke Komori, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Ryota Katsumata, Hideaki Aochi
  • Patent number: 8319270
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory of a semiconductor device has a tunnel insulation film provided on the active area; a floating gate electrode provided on the tunnel insulation film; a control gate electrode provided over the floating gate electrode; and an inter-electrode insulation film provided between the floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode, wherein, in a section of the non-volatile memory cell in a channel width direction, a dimension of a top face of the active area in the channel width direction is equal to or less than a dimension of a top face of the tunnel insulation film in the channel width direction, and the dimension of the top face of the tunnel insulation film in the channel width direction is less than a dimension of a bottom face of the floating gate electrode in the channel width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Mutsuo Morikado, Kiyomi Naruke, Hiroaki Tsunoda, Tohru Maruyama, Fumitaka Arai
  • Patent number: 8319272
    Abstract: The invention includes optoelectronic devices containing one or more layers of semiconductor-enriched insulator (with exemplary semiconductor-enriched insulator being silicon-enriched silicon oxide and silicon-enriched silicon nitride), and includes solar cells containing one or more layers of semiconductor-enriched insulator. The invention also includes methods of forming optoelectronic devices and solar cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Arup Bhattacharyya
  • Patent number: 8294196
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory is described having memory cells with a gate dielectric. The gate dielectric is a multilayer charge trapping dielectric between a control gate and a channel region of a transistor to trap positively charged holes. The multilayer charge trapping dielectric comprises at least one layer of high-K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard Forbes, Kie Y. Ahn
  • Patent number: 8253186
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of this invention is a single-layer gate nonvolatile semiconductor memory in which a floating gate having a predetermined shape is formed on a semiconductor substrate. This floating gate opposes a diffusion layer serving as a control gate via a gate oxide film and is capacitively coupled with the diffusion layer by using the gate oxide film as a dielectric film. The diffusion layer immediately below the dielectric film is insulated from the semiconductor substrate by an insulating film such as a silicon oxide film. A pair of diffusion layers are formed in surface regions of the semiconductor substrate on the two sides of the floating gate extending on a tunnel oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLC
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kumazaki
  • Patent number: 8247862
    Abstract: A method is provided for enhancing charge storage in an E2PROM cell structure that includes a read transistor having spaced apart source an drain diffusion regions formed in a semiconductor substrate to define a substrate channel region therebetween, a conductive charge storage element formed over the substrate channel region and separated therefrom by gate dielectric material, a conductive control gate that is separated from the charge storage element by intervening dielectric material, and a conductive heating element disposed in proximity to the charge storage element. The method comprises performing a programming operation that causes charge to be placed on the charge storage element and, during the programming operation, heating the heating element to a temperature such that heat is provided to the charge storage element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff A Babcock, Yuri Mirgorodski, Natalia Lavrovskaya, Saurabh Desai
  • Patent number: 8237211
    Abstract: A non-volatile semiconductor storage device has a memory string including a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells connected in series. The non-volatile semiconductor storage device also has a protruding layer formed to protrude upward with respect to a substrate. The memory string includes: a plurality of first conductive layers laminated on the substrate; a first semiconductor layer formed to penetrate the plurality of first conductive layers; and an electric charge storage layer formed between the first conductive layers and the first semiconductor layer, and configured to be able to store electric charges. Each of the plurality of first conductive layers includes: a bottom portion extending in parallel to the substrate; and a side portion extending upward with respect to the substrate along the protruding layer at the bottom portion. The protruding layer has a width in a first direction parallel to the substrate that is less than or equal to its length in a lamination direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Fukuzumi, Ryota Katsumata, Masaru Kito, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masaru Kidoh, Yosuke Komori, Megumi Ishiduki, Akihiro Nitayama, Hideaki Aochi, Hitoshi Ito, Yasuyuki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8199578
    Abstract: A single-polysilicon layer non-volatile memory having a floating gate transistor, a program gate and a control gate is provided. The floating gate transistor has a floating gate and a tunneling dielectric layer. The floating gate is disposed on a substrate. The tunneling dielectric layer is disposed between the floating gate and the substrate. The program gate, the control gate and the erase gate are respectively disposed in the substrate under the floating gate separated by the tunneling dielectric layer. Therefore, during a program operation and an erase operation, charges are injected in and expelled out through different regions of the tunneling dielectric layer, so as to increase reliability of the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: eMemory Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Hsin-Ming Chen, Shih-Chen Wang, Wen-Hao Ching, Yen-Hsin Lai, Ching-Sung Yang
  • Patent number: 8193068
    Abstract: To provide an SOI substrate with an SOI layer that can be put into practical use, even when a substrate with a low allowable temperature limit such as a glass substrate is used, and to provide a semiconductor substrate formed using such an SOI substrate. In order to bond a single-crystalline semiconductor substrate to a base substrate such as a glass substrate, a silicon oxide film formed by CVD with organic silane as a source material is used as a bonding layer, for example. Accordingly, an SOL substrate with a strong bond portion can be formed even when a substrate with an allowable temperature limit of less than or equal to 700° C. such as a glass substrate is used. A semiconductor layer separated from the single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is irradiated with a laser beam so that the surface of the semiconductor layer is planarized and the crystallinity thereof is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Eiji Higa, Yoji Nagano, Tatsuya Mizoi, Akihisa Shimomura
  • Patent number: 8193575
    Abstract: A flash memory structure having an enhanced capacitive coupling coefficient ratio (CCCR) may be fabricated in a self-aligned manner while using a semiconductor substrate that has an active region that is recessed within an aperture with respect to an isolation region that surrounds the active region. The flash memory structure includes a floating gate that does not rise above the isolation region, and that preferably consists of a single layer that has a U shape. The U shape facilitates the enhanced capacitive coupling coefficient ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Louis C. Hsu, Xu Ouyang, Ping-Chuan Wang, Zhijian J. Yang
  • Patent number: 8183621
    Abstract: The number of times that a non-volatile memory (NVM) can be programmed and erased is substantially increased by utilizing a localized heating element that anneals the oxide that is damaged by tunneling charge carriers when the NVM is programmed and erased. The program and erase voltages are also reduced when heat from the heating element is applied prior to programming and erasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Babcock, Yuri Mirgorodski, Natalia Lavrovskaya, Saurabh Desai
  • Patent number: 8148792
    Abstract: A pressure sensor of the present invention includes a lower substrate which has an insulating layer having a through-hole penetrating from one side to the other side, and an active layer formed to have a uniform thickness on the insulating layer and having a portion facing the through-hole as an oscillating portion capable of oscillating in a direction opposing the through-hole; a lower electrode formed on the oscillating portion; an upper substrate arranged opposite to the active layer and having a recess at a portion opposed to the oscillating portion; and an upper electrode formed on the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Goro Nakatani
  • Patent number: 8148767
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a control gate electrode recessed in the semiconductor substrate, a storage node layer interposed between a sidewall of the control gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a tunneling insulation layer interposed between the storage node layer and the semiconductor substrate, a blocking insulation layer interposed between the storage node layer and the control gate electrode, and first and second channel regions formed around a surface of the semiconductor substrate to at least partially surround the control gate electrode. The semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of control gate electrodes, storage node layers, tunneling insulation layers, blocking insulation layers, and continuous first and second channel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoon-dong Park, June-mo Koo, Kyoung-lae Cho
  • Patent number: 8084807
    Abstract: A multilayer body is formed by alternately stacking electrode films serving as control gates and dielectric films in a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of a silicon substrate. Trenches extending in the word line direction are formed in the multilayer body and a memory film is formed on an inner surface of the trench. Subsequently, a silicon body is buried inside the trench, and a charge storage film and the silicon body are divided in the word line direction to form silicon pillars. This simplifies the configuration of memory cells in the bit line direction, and hence can shorten the arrangement pitch of the silicon pillars, decreasing the area per memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Megumi Ishiduki, Ryota Katsumata, Masaru Kidoh, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Yosuke Komori, Masaru Kito, Yoshiaki Fukuzumi, Hideaki Aochi
  • Patent number: 8076205
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array area provided with first and second memory cells and having a first active area and a first element isolation area constituting a line & space structure, and having a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode in the first active area, a word line contact area adjacent to the memory cell array area and having a second active area, first and second word lines with a metal silicide structure, functioning respectively as the control gate electrodes of the first and second memory cells and arranged to straddle the memory cell array area and the word line contact area. A dummy gate electrode is arranged just below the first and second word lines in the second active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hideaki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 8076717
    Abstract: A vertical semiconductor material mesa upstanding from a semiconductor base that forms a conductive channel between first and second doped regions. The first doped region is electrically coupled to one or more first silicide layers on the surface of the base. The second doped region is electrically coupled to a second silicide layer on the upper surface of the mesa. A gate conductor is provided on one or more sidewalls of the mesa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurtej Sandhu, Chandra Mouli, John K. Zahurak
  • Patent number: 8067795
    Abstract: A single-poly EEPROM memory device comprises source and drain regions in a semiconductor body, a floating gate overlying a portion of the source and drain regions, which defines a source-to-floating gate capacitance and a drain-to-floating gate capacitance, wherein the source-to-floating gate capacitance is substantially greater than the drain-to-floating gate capacitance. The source-to-floating gate capacitance is, for example, at least about three times greater than the drain-to-floating gate capacitance to enable the memory device to be electrically programmed or erased by applying a potential between a source electrode and a drain electrode without using a control gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jozef Czeslaw Mitros, Xiaoju Wu
  • Patent number: 8064254
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes at least one semiconductor column having a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The device also includes at least one gate electrode is disposed on the first sidewall and at least one control gate electrode disposed on the second sidewall. The device further includes at least one charge storage layer is disposed between the second sidewall and the at least one control gate electrode. The at least one gate electrode and the at least one control gate electrode may be disposed on opposite sides of the at least one semiconductor column such that they commonly control a channel region in the semiconductor column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk-pil Kim, Yoon-dong Park
  • Patent number: 8049298
    Abstract: A first dielectric plug is formed in a portion of a trench that extends into a substrate of a memory device so that an upper surface of the first dielectric plug is recessed below an upper surface of the substrate. The first dielectric plug has a layer of a first dielectric material and a layer of a second dielectric material formed on the layer of the first dielectric material. A second dielectric plug of a third dielectric material is formed on the upper surface of the first dielectric plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Violette
  • Patent number: 8035154
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of source lines. The memory cells are located in the semiconductor substrate. Each of the memory cells includes a trench provided in the semiconductor substrate, an oxide layer disposed on a sidewall of the trench, a tunnel oxide layer disposed at a bottom portion of the trench, a floating gate disposed in the trench so as to be surrounded by the oxide layer and the tunnel oxide layer, and an erasing electrode disposed on an opposing side of the tunnel oxide layer from the floating gate. The bit lines and the source lines are alternately arranged on the memory cells in parallel with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Naruse, Mitsutaka Katada, Tetsuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 8031532
    Abstract: Flash memory device structures and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. The flash memory devices are manufactured on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates. Shallow trench isolation (STI) regions and the buried oxide layer of the SOI substrate are used to isolate adjacent devices from one another. The methods of manufacture require fewer lithography masks and may be implemented in stand-alone flash memory devices, embedded flash memory devices, and system on a chip (SoC) flash memory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Danny Pak-Chum Shum, Armin Tilke, Jiang Yan
  • Patent number: 8026570
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a control signal system for avoiding failure to check an indefinite signal propagation prevention circuit, for facilitating a check included in an automated tool, and for facilitating a power shutdown control inside a chip. In the semiconductor integrated circuit device, power shutdown priorities are provided by independent power domains (Area A to Area I). A method for preventing a power domain having a lower priority from being turned OFF when a circuit having a high priority is turned ON is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Kanno, Hiroyuki Mizuno, Yoshihiko Yasu, Kenji Hirose, Takahiro Irita
  • Patent number: 8017991
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide a non-volatile memory device with increased integration and methods of operating and fabricating the same. A non-volatile memory device may include a plurality of first storage node films and a plurality of first control gate electrodes on a semiconductor substrate. A plurality of second storage node films and a plurality of second control gate electrodes may be recessed into the semiconductor substrate between two adjacent first control gate electrodes and below the bottom of the plurality of first control gate electrodes. A plurality of bit line regions may be on the semiconductor substrate and each may extend across the plurality of first control gate electrodes and the plurality of second control gate electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-joo Kim, Suk-pil Kim, Yoon-dong Park, June-mo Koo
  • Patent number: 8008748
    Abstract: A deep trench varactor structure compatible with a deep trench capacitor structure and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. A buried plate layer is formed on a second deep trench, while the first trench is protected from formation of any buried plate layer. The inside of the deep trenches is filled with a conductive material to form inner electrodes. At least one doped well is formed outside and abutting portions of the first deep trench and constitutes at least one outer varactor electrode. Multiple doped wells may be connected in parallel to provide a varactor having complex voltage dependency of capacitance. The buried plate layer and another doped well connected thereto constitute an outer electrode of a linear capacitor formed on the second deep trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David S. Collins, Robert M. Rassel, Eric Thompson
  • Patent number: 8004033
    Abstract: Nonvolatile memory cells and methods of forming the same are provided, the methods including forming a first conductor at a first height above a substrate; forming a first pillar-shaped semiconductor element above the first conductor, wherein the first pillar-shaped semiconductor element comprises a first heavily doped layer of a first conductivity type, a second lightly doped layer above and in contact with the first heavily doped layer, and a third heavily doped layer of a second conductivity type above and in contact with the second lightly doped layer, the second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type; forming a first dielectric antifuse above the third heavily doped layer of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor element; and forming a second conductor above the first dielectric antifuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: SanDisk 3D LLC
    Inventors: S. Brad Herner, Maitreyee Mahajani
  • Patent number: 7994588
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide a nonvolatile memory device that may be integrated through stacking, a stack module, and a method of fabricating the nonvolatile memory device. In the nonvolatile memory device according to example embodiments, at least one bottom gate electrode may be formed on a substrate. At least one charge storage layer may be formed on the at least one bottom gate electrode, and at least one semiconductor channel layer may be formed on the at least one charge storage layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huaxiang Yin, Young-soo Park, Sun-Il Kim
  • Patent number: 7989875
    Abstract: A BiCMOS substrate includes a bipolar area having a buried carrier layer, and a deep trench isolation (DTI) trench extending into the buried carrier layer to form a surface well implant above a buried well implant within the DTI trench, the buried well implant being the buried carrier layer portion within the DTI trench. A floating gate is disposed on the carrier well. Optionally, a high voltage control gate is formed of a stack of the buried well implant and the surface well implant within the DTI trench. Optionally, a poly layer formed of a bipolar process base poly layer is disposed on the floating gate. Optionally, a shallow well isolation region is formed on the substrate, a floating gate is disposed on the shallow well region, and an overlaying control gate, formed of a bipolar process base poly, is disposed above the floating gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Wibo Van Noort, Theodore James Letavic, Francis Zaato, Charudatta Mandhare
  • Patent number: 7977226
    Abstract: A flash memory device and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The flash memory device includes an ONO layer on a substrate, polysilicon gates on the ONO layer, a gate oxide layer on the substrate, the ONO layer and the polysilicon gates, and a low temperature oxide layer and polysilicon sidewall spacers on outer side surfaces of the polysilicon gates, except in a region between nearest adjacent polysilicon gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ki Jun Yun
  • Patent number: 7968934
    Abstract: An integrated memory device, an integrated memory chip and a method for fabricating an integrated memory device is disclosed. One embodiment provides at least one integrated memory device with a drain, a source, a floating gate, a selection gate and a control gate, wherein the conductivity between the drain and the source can be controlled independently via the control gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Robert Strenz, Christian Peters
  • Patent number: 7968932
    Abstract: A semiconductor device which is formed in a self-aligned manner without causing a problem of misalignment in forming a control gate electrode and in which a leak between the control gate electrode and a floating gate electrode is not generated, and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device are provided. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor film, a first gate insulating film over the semiconductor film, a floating gate electrode over the first gate insulating-film, a second gate insulating film which covers the floating gate electrode, and a control gate electrode over the second gate insulating film. The control gate electrode is formed so as to cover the floating gate electrode with the second gate insulating film interposed therebetween, the control gate electrode is provided with a sidewall, and the sidewall is formed on a stepped portion of the control gate-electrode, generated due to the floating gate electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Asami
  • Patent number: 7948021
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory includes a memory cell array area provided with first and second memory cells and having a first active area and a first element isolation area constituting a line & space structure, and having a floating gate electrode and a control gate electrode in the first active area, a word line contact area adjacent to the memory cell array area and having a second active area, first and second word lines with a metal silicide structure, functioning respectively as the control gate electrodes of the first and second memory cells and arranged to straddle the memory cell array area and the word line contact area. A dummy gate electrode is arranged just below the first and second word lines in the second active area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Hideaki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 7948024
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device is provided that includes; a first semiconductor layer extending in a first direction, a second semiconductor layer extending in parallel with and separated from the first semiconductor layer, an isolation layer between the first semiconductor layer and second semiconductor layer, a first control gate electrode between the first semiconductor layer and the isolation layer, a second control gate electrode between the second semiconductor layer and the isolation layer, wherein the second control gate electrode and first control gate electrode are respectively disposed at opposite sides of the isolation layer, a first charge storing layer between the first control gate electrode and the first semiconductor layer, and a second charge storing layer between the second control gate electrode and the second semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Suk-pil Kim, Yoon-dong Park, June-mo Koo, Tae-eung Yoon
  • Patent number: 7935633
    Abstract: The use of an ammonium hydroxide spike to a hot tetra methyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH) solution to form an insitu poly oxide decapping step in a polysilicon (poly) etch process, results in a single step rapid poly etch process having uniform etch initiation and a high etch selectivity, that may be used in manufacturing a variety of electronic devices such as integrated circuits (ICs) and micro electro-mechanical (MEM) devices. The etching solution is formed by adding 35% ammonium hydroxide solution to a hot 12.5% TMAH solution at about 70° C. at a rate of 1% by volume, every hour. Such an etch solution and method provides a simple, inexpensive, single step self initiating poly etch that has etch stop ratios of over 200 to 1 over underlying insulator layers and TiN layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Shea
  • Patent number: 7923327
    Abstract: Provided are a non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory device comprises: a control gate region formed by doping a semiconductor substrate with second impurities; an electron injection region formed by doping the semiconductor substrate with first impurities, where a top surface of the electron injection region includes a tip portion at an edge; a floating gate electrode covering at least a portion of the control gate region and the tip portion of the electron injection region; a first tunnel oxide layer interposed between the floating gate electrode and the control gate region; a second tunnel oxide layer interposed between the floating gate electrode and the electron injection region; a trench surrounding the electron injection region in the semiconductor substrate; and a device isolation layer pattern filled in the trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Kun Park
  • Patent number: 7919823
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a cell well, a memory cell array formed on the cell well and having a memory cell area and cell well contact area, first wiring bodies arranged in the memory cell area, and second wiring bodies arranged in the cell well contact area. The layout pattern of the second wiring bodies is the same as the layout pattern of the first wiring bodies. The cell well contact area comprises cell well contacts that have the same dopant type as the cell well and that function as source/drain regions of dummy transistors formed in the cell well contact area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsuhiro Sato, Kikuko Sugimae, Masayuki Ichige
  • Patent number: 7915655
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal-oxide semiconductor transistor. A first dielectric layer of the metal oxide semiconductor transistor overlaps source and drain electrodes and a channel region of the transistor. A first drain region is away from the channel region and the first dielectric layer. A second drain region is between the first drain region and the channel region. A gate electrode is on the first dielectric layer and connected to a gate wire, and includes first and second gate layers and a dielectric layer therebetween. The first gate layer has one edge laterally spaced from the first drain region and resting over the second drain region, and is isolated from the gate wire. The second gate layer is over the first gate layer and is connected to the gate wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Naohiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 7897476
    Abstract: To provide an SOI substrate with an SOI layer that can be put into practical use, even when a substrate with a low allowable temperature limit such as a glass substrate is used, and to provide a semiconductor substrate formed using such an SOI substrate. In order to bond a single-crystalline semiconductor substrate to a base substrate such as a glass substrate, a silicon oxide film formed by CVD with organic silane as a source material is used as a bonding layer, for example. Accordingly, an SOI substrate with a strong bond portion can be formed even when a substrate with an allowable temperature limit of less than or equal to 700° C. such as a glass substrate is used. A semiconductor layer separated from the single-crystalline semiconductor substrate is irradiated with a laser beam so that the surface of the semiconductor layer is planarized and the crystallinity thereof is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Eiji Higa, Yoji Nagano, Tatsuya Mizoi, Akihisa Shimomura
  • Patent number: 7858473
    Abstract: A flash memory device having a spacer of a gate region formed in an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) structure and a source/drain region formed using the ONO structure. The outermost oxide in the ONO structure is removed and an interlayer insulating film is formed to ensure sufficient space between the gate regions. Thus, it is possible to prevent a void from being generated in the interlayer insulating film and prevent a word line from being electrically connected to a drain contact for forming a bit line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Ha Park, Jae-Hee Kim
  • Patent number: 7834389
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate. A gate formed on the substrate. The gate includes a sidewall. A spacer formed on the substrate and adjacent the sidewall of the gate. The spacer has a substantially triangular geometry. A contact etch stop layer (CESL) is formed on the first gate and the first spacer. The thickness of the CESL to the width of the first spacer is between approximately 0.625 and 16.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Lien Huang, Yi-Chen Huang, Jim Cy Huang, Weng Chang, Hun-Jan Tao
  • Patent number: 7829934
    Abstract: A flash memory device has a resistivity measurement pattern and method of forming the same. A trench is formed in an isolation film in a Self-Aligned Floating Gate (SAFG) scheme. The trench is buried to form a resistivity measurement floating gate. This allows the resistivity of the floating gate to be measured even in the SAFG scheme. Contacts for resistivity measurement are directly connected to the resistivity measurement floating gate. Therefore, variation in resistivity measurement values, which is incurred by the parasitic interface, can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Ki Hong Yang, Sang Wook Park
  • Patent number: 7808033
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of this invention is a single-layer gate nonvolatile semiconductor memory in which a floating gate having a predetermined shape is formed on a semiconductor substrate. This floating gate opposes a diffusion layer serving as a control gate via a gate oxide film and is capacitively coupled with the diffusion layer by using the gate oxide film as a dielectric film. The diffusion layer immediately below the dielectric film is insulated from the semiconductor substrate by an insulating film such as a silicon oxide film. A pair of diffusion layers are formed in surface regions of the semiconductor substrate on the two sides of the floating gate extending on a tunnel oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kumazaki
  • Patent number: RE44156
    Abstract: First of all, a semiconductor substrate is provided, and then a first/second wells with a first conductivity are formed therein so as to individually form a first part of the floating gate of single-level EEPROM and a low-voltage device thereon, wherein the first and the second wells are used to separate the high-voltage device, and the depth of the first well is the same as the second well. Furthermore, the high-voltage device and the second part of the floating gate of single-level EEPROM are individually formed on the semiconductor substrate between the first and the second wells, and the control gate of the floating gate of single-level EEPROM is formed in the third well located under the second part of the floating gate of single-level EEPROM, wherein the high-voltage device can be operated in the opposite electric field about 18V, such as ?6V˜12V, ?12V˜6V, ?9V˜9V etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Rong-Ching Chen, Ching-Chun Huang, Jy-Hwang Lin