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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Wen Jer Tsai, Hualien, TW;
Tien Fan Ou, Taipei, TW;
Erh-kun Lai, Longjing Shiang, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/8234 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A gated diode nonvolatile memory cell with a charge storage structure includes a diode structure with an additional gate terminal. Example embodiments include the individual memory cell, an array of such memory cells, methods of operating the memory cell or array of memory cells, and methods of manufacturing the same.