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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2001
Franciscus Petrus Widdershoven, Eindhoven, NL;
Jurriaan Schmitz, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A semiconductor device comprising a non-volatile memory cell, for storing at least one bit, in a semiconductor substrate ( ) having, in the substrate, a source region ( ), a drain region ( ) and a channel region ( ) between the source ( ) and drain ( ) regions, and having, on top of the substrate, a floating gate ( ) separated from the channel region ( ) by a floating gate insulating layer, a select gate ( ) adjacent to the floating gate and separated from the channel region by a select gate insulating layer ( ), and a control gate ( ) separated from the floating gate ( ) by a control gate insulating layer, the floating gate being a non-conducting charge trapping dielectric layer ( ).