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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Louis Hodges, Lewisville, TX (US);
Loi Ngoc Nguyen, Carrollton, TX (US);
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/976 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/976 ;
Abstract
An integrated circuit memory fabrication process and structure, in which salicidation is performed on the periphery (and optionally on the ground lines) of a memory chip, but not on the transistors of the memory cells.