Tight pitch vertical transistor EEPROM
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKarthik Balakrishnan, Pouya Hashemi, Tak H. Ning, Alexander Reznicek
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Abstract
A memory device including a first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a first region of a substrate and a second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a second region of the substrate. A common floating gate structure in simultaneous electrical communication with a first fin structure of the first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device and a second fin structure of the second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device.
Claims20
A memory device comprising:
- a first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a first region of a substrate;
- a second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a second region of the substrate;
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- a common floating gate structure in simultaneous electrical communication with a first fin structure of the first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device and a second fin structure of the second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device.
A memory device comprising:
- a first conductivity type semiconductor device in a first region of a substrate and a second conductivity type semiconductor device in a second region of the substrate;
- a first source/drain region for each of the first and second conductivity type semiconductor devices, each of the first source/drain regions positioned on the substrate;
- a common floating gate structure in simultaneous electrical communication to a first vertically orientated channel region for the first conductivity type semiconductor device, and a second vertically orientated channel region for the second conductivity type semiconductor device;
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- a commonly via contacted second source/drain region present on an end of the first and second vertically orientated channel regions that is opposite the first source/drain region for each of the first and second conductivity type semiconductor devices.
A method of forming a memory device comprising:
- forming a first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a first region of a substrate;
- forming a second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device in a second region of the substrate;
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- forming a common floating gate structure in simultaneous electrical communication with a first fin structure of the first conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device and a second fin structure of the second conductivity type vertically orientated semiconductor device.
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