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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Applicant:
Sung Kee Park, Icheon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Sung Kee Park, Icheon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed herein are flash memory devices and methods of making the same. According to one embodiment, a flash memory device includes first trenches formed in a semiconductor substrate and arranged in parallel, second trenches discontinuously formed in the semiconductor substrate and arranged between the first trenches, first isolation structures respectively formed within the first trenches, second isolation structures respectively formed within the second trenches, and active regions defined by the first isolation structures and the second isolation structures.