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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Giuseppe Corda, Saronno, IT;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, , IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437 43 ; 437984 ; 148D / ;
Abstract
The tunnelling area of a EEPROM memory device of the FLOTOX type is efficiently reduced in respect to the minimum areas obtained by means of current fabrication technologies, by forming the injection zone for the transfer of the electric charges by tunnel effect to and from the floating gate through an original self-aligned process, which allows limiting the dimensions of such a tunnelling area independently from the resolution limits of the available photolithographic technology.