Semiconductor memory capable of being driven at low voltage and its manufacture method

A semiconductor device comprising:

• a semiconductor substrate;
• a plurality of impurity doped regions of a first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of said semiconductor substrate, extending in a first direction and disposed in parallel to each other;
• a plurality of gate lines disposed on said semiconductor substrate, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and disposed in parallel to each other at some interval, said gate line being insulated from said impurity doped region in each cross point between said gate line and said impurity doped region;
• a FET disposed in each cross point between a pair of adjacent impurity doped regions and said gate line;
• and
• a channel stopper region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, said channel stopper region being formed in the surface layer of said semiconductor substrate between channel regions of two FET's juxtaposed in the first direction,
• wherein each of said FET's comprises:
• the channel region between a corresponding pair of impurity doped regions;
• a gate insulating film formed on the channel region and spaced apart by some distance from the corresponding pair of impurity doped regions;
• a gate electrode formed on said gate insulating film and connected to a corresponding gate line;
• a lamination film conformably covering a side wall of said gate electrode and a surface of said semiconductor substrate between each impurity doped region of the corresponding pair of impurity doped regions and said gate electrode, said lamination film having a structure of at least three layers, a middle layer being made of material easier to trap carriers than other two layers;
• a side wall spacer made of conductive material, facing the side wall of said gate electrode and the channel region via said lamination film, and connected to a corresponding gate line.

A semiconductor device comprising:

• a gate insulating film formed on a channel region defined in a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate;
• source and drain regions formed in the surface layer in both side areas of the channel region;
• carrier trap films covering first and second areas and made of material easier to trap carriers than the gate insulating film, an upper surface of the gate insulating film having the first area on the source region side, the second area on the drain region side and a third area between the first and second areas;
• a coating film made of insulating material and covering surfaces of the carrier trap films;
• and
• a gate electrode continuously covering at least a surface from a boundary between the source region and channel region to a boundary between the drain region and channel region among surfaces of the coating film and the gate insulating film on the third area.

A semiconductor device comprising:

• a semiconductor substrate;
• a plurality of impurity doped regions of a first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of said semiconductor substrate, extending in a first direction and disposed in parallel to each other;
• a plurality of gate lines disposed on or over said semiconductor substrate, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and disposed in parallel to each other at some interval, said gate line being insulated from said impurity doped region at each cross point between said gate line and said impurity doped region;
• a FET disposed at each cross point between a pair of adjacent impurity doped regions and said gate line;
• and
• a channel stopper region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, said channel stopper region being formed in the surface layer of said semiconductor substrate between channel regions of two FET's juxtaposed in the first direction,
• wherein each of said FET's comprises:
• the channel region between a corresponding pair of impurity doped regions;
• a gate insulating film formed on the channel region;
• carrier trap films covering first and second areas and made of material easier to trap carriers than the gate insulating film, an upper surface of the gate insulating film having the first area on one side of the corresponding pair of impurity doped regions, the second area on the other side, and a third area between the first and second areas;
• and
• a coating film made of insulating material and covering surfaces of the carrier trap films,
• wherein the gate line covers the third area of the gate insulating film of a corresponding FET and the coating film and serves also as a gate electrode of FET.

A semiconductor device comprising:

• source and drain regions formed in a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate and spaced apart by some distance;
• an intermediate region formed in the surface layer between said source and drain regions, spaced apart by some distance from both said source and drain regions, and doped with impurities of the same conductivity type as said source and drain regions;
• gate insulating films covering a channel region between said source and intermediate regions and a channel region between said drain and intermediate regions;
• a first film covering said source, drain and intermediate regions and made of insulating material, said first film being thicker than said gate insulating films;
• a carrier trap film formed on each of the gate insulating films and made of material easier to trap carriers than said gate insulating films;
• a coating film made of insulating material and covering a surface of each of said carrier trap films;
• and
• a gate electrode covering said coating film and first film disposed in an area from one of the channel regions to the other of the channel regions via the intermediate region.

A semiconductor device comprising:

• a semiconductor substrate;
• a plurality of impurity doped regions of a first conductivity type formed in a surface layer of said semiconductor substrate, extending in a first direction and disposed in parallel to each other;
• a plurality of gate lines disposed on or over said semiconductor substrate, extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and disposed in parallel to each other at some interval, said gate line being insulated from said impurity doped region at each cross point between said gate line and said impurity doped region;
• and
• a FET disposed at each cross point between a pair of adjacent impurity doped regions and said gate line,
• wherein each of said FET's comprises:
• an intermediate region formed in the substrate surface layer between a corresponding pair of impurity doped regions and spaced apart by some distance from both the impurity doped regions, said intermediate region having the same conductivity type as the impurity doped regions;
• gate insulating films covering channel regions between each of the impurity doped regions and said intermediate region;
• a first film covering the pair of impurity doped regions and said intermediate region and made of insulating material, said first film being thicker than said gate insulating films;
• a carrier trap film formed on each of the gate insulating films and made of material easier to trap carriers than said gate insulating films;
• and
• a coating film made of insulating material and covering a surface of each of said carrier trap films,
• wherein:
• said gate line corresponding to respective FET's is disposed on said coating film and first film and serves also as gate electrodes of FET's;
• and
• the semiconductor device further comprises a channel stopper region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, said channel stopper region being formed in the substrate surface layer between channel regions of two FET's juxtaposed in the first direction.