Spacer flash cell process

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1996-05-20

1998-07-07

Niebling, John

Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying

437 44, 437 52, H01L 218247

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057767874

ABSTRACT:
A flash EPROM cell has a reduced cell size by providing vertical coupling between the floating gate and the bit line during programming. The erase operation is done by tunneling of electrons from the sharp tip of the Poly spacer to the control gate. The cell is adapted so that the source for each cell within the array is the source of an adjacent cell and the drain is the drain to another adjacent cell. The cell is formed by forming the drain regions into the substrate through openings in a first insulator that is preferably the field oxide. A second insulator is deposited over the first insulator, over the substrate and along the side walls of the openings and is preferably a thin layer so that the opening is covered with a thin insulating layer. The insulated opening is filled with a metal, preferably tungsten or a tungsten alloy. The field oxide is selectively removed. A gate oxide is grown and a first polysilicon layer is formed and then etched to form spacers along the edges of the metal/second insulator structure. The first polysilicon is selectively etched and a tunneling insulator layer is formed thereover. A second polysilicon layer is formed over the tunneling insulator.

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