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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1987
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
George W Conner, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
Raymond G Donald, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald L Cline, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Signetics Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437 48 ; 437 61 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor PROM containing a group of PROM cells (12) each consisting of a pair of opposing diodes oriented vertically with their common intermediate region (22) fully adjoining a recessed oxide insulating region (16) is fabricated by a process in which the insulating region serves as a mask to control the lateral extents of the dopants utilized to define the diodes. The intermediate cell regions are ion implanted to obtain maximum dopant concentration near their mid-points. This facilitates programming operation.