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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 25, 1998
Eiji Kamiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Seiichi Aritome, Yokohama, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a flash EEPROM in which a plurality of resist patterns are arranged like an island such that only an interlayer insulation film formed on a field oxide film is left in order to insulate drain diffusion layers of cell transistors in the row direction from each other when contacts of a memory cell group are subjected to PEP. Using the island-like resist patterns as masks, contact holes communicating with both the drain diffusion layers and source diffusion layers are made. Since, therefore, drain and source contact holes are arranged in matrix, the PEP margin can greatly be increased, thereby making it possible to prevent the problems of forming no contact holes and causing a short circuit between the gate and contact from arising.