Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate. Active regions are formed on the surface of the substrate, separated from one another by element separating regions and extend in a first direction. A first word line and a second word line extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. A pair of first select gate lines extend in the second direction between the first and second word lines. Memory cell transistors are each provided at each of intersections of the first and second word lines and the active regions on the surface of the substrate. First select gate transistors are each provided at each of intersections of the pair of first select gate lines and the active regions on the surface of the substrate. A first contact is provided between the pair of first select gate lines and contacts adjacent two of the active regions.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory which is configured to include a plurality of word lines disposed in a row direction; a plurality of bit lines disposed in a column direction perpendicular to the word lines; memory cell transistors having a charge storage layer, provided in the column direction and an electronic storage condition of the memory cell transistor configured to be controlled by one of the plurality of the word lines connected to the memory cell; a plurality of first select transistors, each including a gate electrode, selecting the memory cell transistors provided in the column direction, arranged in the column direction and adjacent to the memory cell transistors at a first end of the memory cell transistors; and a first select gate line connected to each of the gate electrodes of the first select transistors.

Abstract: An element isolating region for separating an element region of a semiconductor layer is formed in a peripheral circuit section of a semiconductor memory device, and a first conductive layer is formed with the element region with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. A second conductive layer is formed on the first conductive layer to extend into the element isolating region. A surface of that section of the second conductive layer which is positioned within the element isolating region is exposed, and a third conductive layer is formed on the second conductive layer with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. Further, a contact is electrically connected to an exposed surface of the second conductive layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell array portion and peripheral circuit portion, wherein a first insulation film including elements as main components other than nitrogen fills between the memory cell gate electrodes of the memory cell array portion, the first insulation film is formed as a liner on a sidewall of a peripheral gate electrode of the peripheral circuit portion simultaneously with the memory cell portion, and a second insulation film including nitrogen as the main component is formed on the sidewall of the peripheral gate electrode via the first insulation film, thus enabling not only the formation of the memory cell portion having high reliability, but also the formation of a peripheral circuit with good efficiency, simultaneously, and avoiding gate offset of a peripheral gate.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate, an element isolation region, a first interconnection, a second interconnection, and a memory cell unit connected between a corresponding one of the first interconnection and a second interconnection. The memory cell unit includes two selection transistors and memory cell transistors of not larger than two. The memory cell transistors are connected between the two selection transistors. The memory cell transistor has a charge storage layer whose side surface lies in the same plane or in substantially the same plane as the side surface of the element isolation regions.

Abstract: A first selection transistor is connected between one end of a memory cell group and a bit line. A second selection transistor which has a gate length shorter than a gate length of the first transistor is connected between the other end of the memory cell group and a source line. In a write, a control gate driver applies a write voltage to the control gate of the memory cell as a write target, and applies an intermediate voltage to the control gates of the other memory cells. A selection gate driver supplies a first voltage lower than the intermediate voltage to the first transistor, and supplies a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the second transistor. A bit line controller supplies the first voltage to the bit line which is not selected for writing, and a source line driver supplies the first voltage to the source line.

Abstract: Forming of a first silicon oxide film is started on an internal surface of a trench formed on a surface or upwardly of a semiconductor substrate according to an HDP technique. Then, deposition of the first silicon oxide film stops before an opening of the trench closes. Further, the first silicon oxide film deposited in the vicinity of an opening is etched, and a second silicon oxide film is formed on the first silicon oxide film deposited on the bottom of the trench according to the HDP technique. In this manner, the first and second silicon oxide films can be laminated on the bottom of the trench.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device having memory elements with a channel length of, e.g., 45-55 nm or less, is fabricated using existing lithographic techniques. In one approach, patterns of first and second photomasks are transferred to the same photoresist layer. The first photomask can have openings with a given feature size F that are spaced apart by the feature size F, for instance. The second photomask has an opening which is sized to create a desired inter-select gate gap, such as 3 F or 5 F. A third photomask is used to provide protective portions in a second photoresist layer over the select gate structures. The final structure has memory elements of width F spaced apart by a distance F, and select gates of width 3 F spaced apart by 3 F or 5 F. In another approach, the patterns of three photomasks are transferred to respective photoresist layers to create an analogous final structure.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, an element isolation region formed in the semiconductor substrate and including a thick element isolating insulation film, for isolating an element region, a first gate electrode provided on the element region in the semiconductor substrate in self-alignment with the element isolation region, a second gate electrode provided on the first gate electrode with an insulation film interposed therebetween, and a resistance element formed on the element isolation region, the resistance element and the second gate electrode being formed of the same conductive film.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes first and second memory cells having a floating gate and a control gate. The floating gate of the first and second memory cells is comprised a first part, and a second part arranged on the first part, and a width of the second part in an extending direction of the control gate is narrower than that of the first part. A first space between the first parts of the first and second memory cells is filled with one kind of an insulator. The control gate is arranged at a second space between the second parts of the first and second memory cells.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a substrate, a memory cell region including first pattern, first guard ring around the memory cell, second guard ring around the first guard ring, an isolation region between the first and second guard ring, and a peripheral circuit region around the second guard ring and including second pattern, the method including exposing the resist film by multiple exposure including first and second exposures for forming latent images corresponding to the first and second patterns, a boundary area of the multiple exposure being set on the isolation region, on the first or second guard ring, or on an area between the first guard ring and the memory cell region, forming a resist pattern by developing the resist film, and etching the substrate with the resist pattern as a mask.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises a memory cell array portion and peripheral circuit portion, wherein a first insulation film including elements as main components other than nitrogen fills between the memory cell gate electrodes of the memory cell array portion, the first insulation film is formed as a liner on a sidewall of a peripheral gate electrode of the peripheral circuit portion simultaneously with the memory cell portion, and a second insulation film including nitrogen as the main component is formed on the sidewall of the peripheral gate electrode via the first insulation film, thus enabling not only the formation of the memory cell portion having high reliability, but also the formation of a peripheral circuit with good efficiency, simultaneously, and avoiding gate offset of a peripheral gate.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device having memory elements with a channel length of, e.g., 45-55 nm or less, is fabricated using existing lithographic techniques. In one approach, patterns of first and second photomasks are transferred to the same photoresist layer. The first photomask can have openings with a given feature size F that are spaced apart by the feature size F, for instance. The second photomask has an opening which is sized to create a desired inter-select gate gap, such as 3 F or 5 F. A third photomask is used to provide protective portions in a second photoresist layer over the select gate structures. The final structure has memory elements of width F spaced apart by a distance F, and select gates of width 3 F spaced apart by 3 F or 5 F. In another approach, the patterns of three photomasks are transferred to respective photoresist layers to create an analogous final structure.

Abstract: A first selection transistor is connected between one end of a memory cell group and a bit line. A second selection transistor which has a gate length shorter than a gate length of the first transistor is connected between the other end of the memory cell group and a source line. In a write, a control gate driver applies a write voltage to the control gate of the memory cell as a write target, and applies an intermediate voltage to the control gates of the other memory cells. A selection gate driver supplies a first voltage lower than the intermediate voltage to the first transistor, and supplies a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the second transistor. A bit line controller supplies the first voltage to the bit line which is not selected for writing, and a source line driver supplies the first voltage to the source line.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate. Active regions are formed on the surface of the substrate, separated from one another by element separating regions and extend in a first direction. A first word line and a second word line extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. A pair of first select gate lines extend in the second direction between the first and second word lines. Memory cell transistors are each provided at each of intersections of the first and second word lines and the active regions on the surface of the substrate. First select gate transistors are each provided at each of intersections of the pair of first select gate lines and the active regions on the surface of the substrate. A first contact is provided between the pair of first select gate lines and contacts adjacent two of the active regions.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a memory cell transistor including a first floating gate electrode layer formed on a first tunneling insulating film, a first inter-gate insulating film, a first and a second control gate electrode layer, and a first metallic silicide film; a high voltage transistor including a high voltage gate electrode layer formed on the high voltage gate insulating film, a second inter-gate insulating film having an aperture, a third and a fourth control gate electrode layer, and a second metallic silicide film; a low voltage transistor including a second floating gate electrode layer formed on the second tunneling insulating film, a third inter-gate insulating film having an aperture, a fifth and a sixth control gate electrode layer, and a third metallic silicide film; and a liner insulating film directly disposed on a first source and drain region of the memory cell transistor, a second source and drain region of the low voltage transistor, and a third source and drain region

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.

Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory which is configured to include a plurality of word lines disposed in a row direction; a plurality of bit lines disposed in a column direction perpendicular to the word lines; memory cell transistors having a charge storage layer, provided in the column direction and an electronic storage condition of the memory cell transistor configured to be controlled by one of the plurality of the word lines connected to the memory cell; a plurality of first select transistors, each including a gate electrode, selecting the memory cell transistors provided in the column direction, arranged in the column direction and adjacent to the memory cell transistors at a first end of the memory cell transistors; and a first select gate line connected to each of the gate electrodes of the first select transistors.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device having: a cell array including bit lines, word lines and memory cells disposed at crossings thereof, plural memory cells being connected in series to constitute a NAND cell unit, plural blocks being arranged, each being constituted by plural NAND cell units arranged in the word line direction; and a row decoder configured to select a block, wherein the row decoder includes: transferring transistor arrays disposed in association with the blocks, in each of which transistors are arranged for transferring word line drive voltages; first decode portions disposed in association with the transferring transistor arrays, which are applied with boosted voltages to selectively drive the transferring transistor arrays; and second decode portions configured to select one of the blocks, each of which is disposed to be shared by adjacent two first decode portions.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate. Two diffusion layers are separately arranged along a first direction on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and include impurities. Two element separation layers are separately arranged along a second direction in a surface of the semiconductor substrate and define an element region. A first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. A first conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer between the two diffusion layers and between the two element separation layers. A second conductive layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and is smaller than the first conductive layer in the first direction and the second direction. A second insulating layer is disposed on the second conductive layer. A third conductive layer is disposed on the second insulating layer.