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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2002
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A nonvolatile semiconductor storage element which has a charge stored layer as a floating gate, and whose storage time is made sufficiently long. The storage element comprises a channel region formed between a source region and a drain region; first and second tunnel insulator layers formed over the channel region and through which electrons can directly tunnel quantum-mechanically; and a conductive particle layer which is sandwiched in between the first and second tunnel insulator layers; the charge stored layer being formed on the second tunnel insulator layer. An energy level at which the information electron in the charge stored layer is injected is lower than the energy level of a conduction band edge in the channel region.