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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Martin Verhoeven, Radebeul, DE;
Inventor:
Martin Verhoeven, Radebeul, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/792 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a charge trapping memory cell, programming occurs by trapping hot electrons from the channel region in a storage layer. The erasure occurs by Fowler-Nordheim tunneling of the electrons through the lower boundary layer to source or drain or preferably through the upper boundary layer into the gate electrode. The boundary layers are preferably aluminum oxide.