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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Judith Quan Rizzuto, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438264 ; 438587 ; 438593 ; 438963 ;
Abstract
A method (200) of making a flash memory device without poly stringers includes forming a stacked gate region (202) on a substrate (102) and forming one or more word lines (122a, 122b, 204) in the stacked gate region. The method further includes performing a self-aligned etch (206) in regions adjacent to the one or more word lines (122a, 122b) and subsequently performing an isotropic etch (208) to remove any poly stringers (128) in the regions adjacent the one or more word lines (122a, 122b).