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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1989
Peter N Manos, II, Austin, TX (US);
Roger S Countryman, Jr, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A floating gate device has a control gate and a floating gate. The floating gate is for charging to set a logic state therein. Moisture is a problem in causing the floating gate to either lose its charge or becoming charged to the wrong state. A thin nitride layer deposited over the control gate and along the sides of the floating gate and control gate as a moisture barrier. This nitride layer is sufficiently thin so as to provide only insignificant attenuation of ultra-violet light used to neutralize the charge state of the floating gate. This nitride layer is not used as a passivation layer so that the desirable phoshosilicate glass (PSG) can be used for passivation.