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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1983
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hayden C Cranford, Jr, Apex, NC (US);
Charles R Hoffman, Raleigh, NC (US);
Geoffrey B Stephens, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 23 ; 357 41 ; 3072383 ;
Abstract
A reduction in cell area and an improvement in tolerance allowed for programming and erase voltages is achieved utilizing a diffused control gate having improved capacitive coupling to the floating gate through a thin oxide grown on single crystal silicon.