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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2011
Henry Chien, San Jose, CA (US);
George Matamis, San Jose, CA (US);
Tuan Pham, San Jose, CA (US);
Masaaki Higashitani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hidetaka Horiuchi, Nagoya, JP;
Jeffrey W. Lutze, San Jose, CA (US);
Nima Mokhlesi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yupin Kawing Fong, Fremont, CA (US);
Henry Chien, San Jose, CA (US);
George Matamis, San Jose, CA (US);
Tuan Pham, San Jose, CA (US);
Masaaki Higashitani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hidetaka Horiuchi, Nagoya, JP;
Jeffrey W. Lutze, San Jose, CA (US);
Nima Mokhlesi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yupin Kawing Fong, Fremont, CA (US);
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A nonvolatile memory array includes floating gates that have an inverted-T shape in cross section along a plane that is perpendicular to the direction along which floating cells are connected together to form a string. Adjacent strings are isolated by shallow trench isolation structures.