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US 7,125,772 B2Granted
Nonvolatile memory
AssigneeAltera Corporation
InventorTing-Wah Wong
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Abstract
A nonvolatile memory cell that is highly scalable includes a cell formed in a triple well. A pair of sources for a pair of cells on adjacent word lines each acts as the emitter of a lateral bipolar transistor. The lateral bipolar transistor of one cell operates as a charge injector for the other cell. The charge injector provides carriers for substrate hot carrier injection onto a floating gate.
Claims8
A method for forming a pair of memory cells capable of functioning as non-volatile memory cells, comprising:
- defining a pair of spaced apart floating gates over a substrate;
- forming a stacked control gate over each floating gate;
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- forming a drain and a pair of sources by implantation using said stacked control gates as a mask, so that substrate electrons are supplied from one of the pair of sources of a first memory cell through an underlying channel of a second memory cell along a path from the one of the pair of sources to the underlying channel, wherein a width of the path is greater than a width of one of the pair of memory cells.
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