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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

A High Capacitive Coupling Ratio (HiCR) Cell for Single 3 Volt Power Supply Flash Memories

Kohji KANAMORI, Yosiaki S. HISAMUNE, Taishi KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki SUZUKI, Masaru TSUKIJI, Eiji HASEGAWA, Akihiko ISHITANI, Takeshi OKAZAWA

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A contact-less cell with high capacitive-coupling ratio (HiCR) of 0.8, which is programmed and erased by Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling, has been developed for single 3 V power-supply 64 Mbit and future flash memories. A 1.50 µm2 cell area is obtained by using 0.4 µm technology. The HiCR cell structure is realized by 1) self-aligned definition of small tunneling regions underneath the floating-gate side wall and 2) an advanced rapid thermal process for 7.5 nm-thick tunnel-oxynitride. The internal-voltages used for PROGRAM and ERASE are8 V and 12 V, respectively. The use of low positive internal-voltages results in reducing total process step numbers compared with reported memory cells. The HiCR cell also realizes low power and fast random access with a single 3 V power-supply.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E77-C No.8 pp.1296-1302
Publication Date
1994/08/25
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Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on High Speed and High Density Multi Functional LSI Memories)
Category
Non-volatile Memory

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