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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Violante Moschiano, Bacoli, IT;
Giovanni Santin, Rieti, IT;
Ercole Di Iorio, Scurcola Marsicana, IT;
Violante Moschiano, Bacoli, IT;
Giovanni Santin, Rieti, IT;
Ercole di Iorio, Scurcola Marsicana, IT;
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
The voltage of a selected word line is increased beyond the voltage to which a respective string driver transistor is capable of driving the word line by capacitively coupling a voltage to the selected word line from adjacent word lines. The voltage is capacitively coupled to the selected word line by increasing the voltages of the adjacent word lines after a programming voltage has been applied to a string driver transistor for the selected word line and after a string driver voltage has been applied to the gates of all of the string driver transistors in an array.