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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2004
Krishnashree Achuthan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Patrick K. Cheung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cyrus Tabery, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jean Y. Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ning Cheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Minh Van Ngo, Fremont, CA (US);
Krishnashree Achuthan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Patrick K. Cheung, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cyrus Tabery, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jean Y. Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ning Cheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Minh Van Ngo, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of protecting a charge trapping dielectric flash memory cell from UV-induced charging, including fabricating a charge trapping dielectric flash memory cell in a semiconductor device; depositing and planarizing an interlevel dielectric layer over the charge trapping dielectric flash memory cell and depositing over the planarized interlevel dielectric layer at least one UV-protective layer, the UV-protective layer including a substantially UV-opaque material.