EEPROM transistor for a DRAM

Details EEPROM transistor for a DRAM EEPROM transistor for a DRAM

1997-04-01

1999-10-26

Meier, Stephen D.

Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode

Field effect device

Having insulated electrode

257315, H01L 27108, H01L 2976, H01L 2994, H01L 31119

Patent

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059733446

ABSTRACT:
A floating gate transistor is formed by simultaneously creating buried contact openings on both EEPROM transistor gates and DRAM access transistor source/drain diffusions. Conventional DRAM process steps are used to form cell storage capacitors in all the buried contact openings, including buried contact openings on EEPROM transistor gates. An EEPROM transistor gate and its associated cell storage capacitor bottom plate together forms a floating gate completely surrounded by insulating material. The top cell storage capacitor plate on an EEPROM transistor is used as a control gate to apply programming voltages to the EEPROM transistor. Reading, writing, and erasing the EEPROM element are analogous to conventional floating-gate tunneling oxide (FLOTOX) EEPROM devices. In this way, existing DRAM process steps are used to implement an EEPROM floating gate transistor nonvolatile memory element.

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