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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Applicants:
Franz Schuler, Dresden, DE;
Georg Tempel, Dresden, DE;
Inventors:
Franz Schuler, Dresden, DE;
Georg Tempel, Dresden, DE;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a nonvolatile semiconductor memory cell and to an associated fabrication method, a source region (), a drain region () and a channel region lying in between being formed in a substrate (). In order to realize locally delimited memory locations (LB, RB), an electrically non-conductive charge storage layer () situated on a first insulation layer () is divided by an interruption (U), thereby preventing, in particular, a lateral charge transport between the memory locations (LB, RB) and significantly improving the charge retention properties.