Macronix International Co., Ltd.

Shyi-Shuh Pan

Chien-Hung Liu

Shou-Wei Huang

Tung-Cheng Kuo

Erh-Kun Lai

Ying-Tso Chen

Shou-Wei Hung

Shou-Wei Hwang

Hsin-Huei Chen

Chong-Jen Huang

Shou Wei Huang

Ying Tzoo Chen

Roughly described, a device having twin bit floating gate memory cells is fabricated by first providing a substrate having formed thereon, within a memory area, a composite charge storage film and a protective liner layer over the composite film. The memory area further includes oxide features over buried diffusion regions in the substrate, and polysilicon spacers over the composite film against the sidewalls of the oxide features. The method further involves etching an isolation trench through the composite film laterally between two of the oxide features, using the polysilicon spacers as a mask, and forming an insulator in the trench. A gate conductor is then formed overlying both the composite film and the filled isolation trench between the two oxide features.

Method for fabricating a floating gate memory device

An ultraviolet-programmable P-type Mask ROM is described. The threshold voltages of all memory cells are raised at first to make each memory cell to be in a first logic state, in which the channel is hard to switch on, in order to prevent a leakage current. After the bit lines and the word lines are formed, the Mask ROM is programmed by irradiating the substrate with UV light to inject electrons into the ONO layer under the openings to make the memory cells under the openings be in a second logic state.

UV-programmable P-type mask ROM

A nonvolatile read-only memory device, wherein a word line is on a substrate and the word line includes a metal layer and a polysilicon line. A trapping layer is further located between the word line and the substrate. A polysilicon protection line is formed over the substrate and the polysilicon protection line connects the word line and a grounded doped region in the substrate, wherein the resistance of the polysilicon protection line is higher than that of the word line.

Non-volatile memory device and fabrication method thereof

A non-volatile memory capable of preventing the antenna effect and the fabrication thereof are described. The non-volatile memory includes a word-line having a high resistance portion and a memory cell portion on a substrate and a charge trapping layer located between the word-line and the substrate. The high resistance portion is electrically connected with a grounding doped region in the substrate and the memory cell portion is electrically connected with a metal interconnect over the substrate.

Non-volatile memory capable of preventing antenna effect and fabrication thereof

A non-volatile memory and the fabrication thereof are described. The non-volatile memory comprises a word-line on a substrate, a charge trapping layer between the word-line and the substrate, and a contact electrically connecting with the word-line over the substrate. In addition, there is a protective metal line electrically connecting with the word-line and with a grounding doped region in the substrate via different contacts, respectively. The protective metal line has a resistance higher than that of the word-line.

Non-volatile memory

The present invention includes devices and methods to form non-volatile memory cells and peripheral devices, with reduced damage to the electron trapping layer and, optionally, reduced thermal exposure during CMOS processing. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

Non volatile embedded memory with poly protection layer

A method for fabricating a Mask ROM is described, in which an ONO composite layer and a plurality of gate structures are formed on a substrate. A plurality of bit-lines are formed in the substrate between the gate structures and a plurality of word-lines are formed over the substrate to electrically connect with the gate structures. A chemical vapor deposition anti-reflective coating (CVD-ARC) with coding windows therein and an inter-layer dielectric layer are formed over the substrate. A coding process is then performed by using UV light to form a plurality of charged coding regions in the charge trapping layer not covered by the CVD-ARC. A plurality of plugs are then formed in the coding windows.

Mask read-only memory and fabrication thereof

A nonvolatile read-only memory device, wherein a word line is on a substrate and the word line includes a metal layer a polysilicon line. A trapping layer is further located between the word line and the substrate. A polysilicon protection line is formed over the substrate and the polysilicon protection line connects the word line and a grounded doped region in the substrate, wherein the resistance of the polysilicon protection line is higher than that of the word line.

A method for fabricating an UV-programmed P-type Mask ROM is described. The threshold voltages of all memory cells are raised at first to make each memory cell be in a first logic state, in which the channel is hard to switch on, in order to prevent a leakage current. After the bit lines and the word lines are formed, the Mask ROM is programmed by irradiating the substrate with UV light to inject electrons into the ONO layer under the openings to make the memory cells under the openings be in a second logic state.

UV-programmed P-type Mask ROM and fabrication thereof

A method of fabricating a nitride read only memory. A trapping dielectric sandwiched structure, including an insulation layer, a charge trap layer and an insulation layer, is formed on a substrate. An opening with indented sidewalls is formed in the insulation layer. A thermal oxide layer is formed to fill the opening, such that the indented sidewalls are completely sealed. The charge trap layer is thus sealed by the insulation layers and the thermal oxide layer to avoid the direct contact between the control gate and the charge trap layer, so as to prevent the data loss.

Method of fabricating nitride read only memory

Method of making non volatile memory with a protective metal line

A fabrication method for a read-only memory with a silicon nitride floating gate is provided. A first oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer are sequentially formed on a substrate. The silicon nitride layer and the first oxide layer are then patterned to form an opening, exposing a portion of the substrate. An oxidation process is then conducted to form a second oxide layer on the silicon nitride layer and concurrently to form a field oxide layer on the exposed substrate. The second oxide layer, the silicon nitride layer and the first oxide layer are then patterned to form an oxide dielectric layer, a silicon nitride floating gate layer and a tunnel oxide layer.

Fabrication method for a silicon nitride read-only memory

The presents invention provides an initialization method of a P-type silicon nitride read only memory. A P-type silicon nitride read only memory is provided. An ultra-violet light is uniformly radiated onto the P-type silicon nitride read only memory. Electron traps are thus evenly distributed in a silicon nitride layer of the P-type silicon nitride read only memory. The P-type silicon nitride read only memory is thus uniformly programmed to a low threshold voltage (Low&verbar;Vt&verbar;) to achieve the device initialization effect.

Initialization method of P-type silicon nitride read only memory

A method is described for forming a non-volatile memory comprising dividing a substrate into at least a memory array area and a logic device area. An oxide/nitride/oxide (ONO) layer is firstly formed on the substrate, and a photoresist layer is formed on the ONO layer by bit line photo process, and a bit line ion implantation process is performed on the substrate to form the plurality of bit lines structure. Then, a first polysilicon layer is deposited to form a plurality of word lines by word line photo condition. The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) ONO layer is used to store the charge and the ONO layer is only touched by the photoresist layer once. Furthermore, the separated adjust photo condition of the memory array area and the logic device area can create a safe oxide thickness to solve the problem of leakage path between bit lines to bit lines by using a self-aligned silicide process.

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