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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:
Mar. 01, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
437 43 ; 437979 ; 437985 ;
Abstract
This invention is directed to a process for the fabrication of a stacked semiconductor nonvolatile memory device, which process is adapted to define a longitudinal length of a floating gate in self-alignment with overlying control gate and interlayer insulating film by etching, without severely damaging the underlying semiconductor substrate.