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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2011
Applicants:

Kyu S. Min, San Jose, CA (US);

Rhett T. Brewer, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Tejas Krishnamohan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Thomas M. Graettinger, Boise, ID (US);

D. V. Nirmal Ramaswamy, Boise, ID (US);

Ronald a Weimer, Boise, ID (US);

Arup Bhattacharyya, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Inventors:

Kyu S. Min, San Jose, CA (US);

Rhett T. Brewer, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Tejas Krishnamohan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Thomas M. Graettinger, Boise, ID (US);

D. V. Nirmal Ramaswamy, Boise, ID (US);

Ronald A Weimer, Boise, ID (US);

Arup Bhattacharyya, Essex Junction, VT (US);

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Some embodiments include memory cells having vertically-stacked charge-trapping zones spaced from one another by dielectric material. The dielectric material may comprise high-k material. One or more of the charge-trapping zones may comprise metallic material. Such metallic material may be present as a plurality of discrete isolated islands, such as nanodots. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells in which two charge-trapping zones are formed over tunnel dielectric, with the zones being vertically displaced relative to one another, and with the zone closest to the tunnel dielectric having deeper traps than the other zone. Some embodiments include electronic systems comprising memory cells. Some embodiments include methods of programming memory cells having vertically-stacked charge-trapping zones.


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