Static information storage and retrieval – Hardware for storage elements – Shields
Patent
1985-08-23
1989-02-14
Fears, Terrell W.
Static information storage and retrieval
Hardware for storage elements
Shields
365218, 357 84, G11C 702, G11C 1900, H01L 2504
Patent
active
048051381
ABSTRACT:
An electrically programmable memory cell of a type having a source, a drain, a floating gate and a control gate formed over a face of a semiconductor substrate in which a ring region of material doped similarly to the substrate encloses the source, drain and gates and extends to a surface of the substrate around its length. Drain and source coupling regions of material doped oppositely to the substrate contact the drain and source, respectively, within the ring and extend under the ring to the substrate surface outside of the ring defining drain and source contact regions, respectively. A contact outside the ring to the control gate is provided by a gate coupling region also extending under the ring to a substrate surface on either side thereof. An interconnect couples the floating gate to the gate coupling region. A non-light transmitting, electrically conducting shield extends over the cell contacting the ring region around its periphery at the substrate surface.
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Ashmore Buster
Coffman Timmie M.
McElroy David
Demond Thomas W.
Fears Terrell W.
Koval Melissa J.
Lindgren Theodore D.
Sharp Melvin
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