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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hidetsugu Uchida, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/9788 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/9788 ;
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory includes a charge transfer layer, having a low barrier height, between the floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode. Accordingly, the nonvolatile memory avoids the problem in which the number of program and erasure cycles is decreased as a result of degradation of a tunnel oxide film.