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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Donovan Lee, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James K. Kai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
George Samachisa, San Jose, CA (US);
Henry Chien, San Jose, CA (US);
George Matamis, Danville, CA (US);
Vinod R. Purayath, Santa Clara, CA (US);
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A memory device and a method of making a memory device that includes a semiconductor channel, a tunnel dielectric layer located over the semiconductor channel, a floating gate located over the tunnel dielectric layer, the floating gate comprising a continuous layer of an electrically conductive material and at least one protrusion of an electrically conductive material facing the tunnel dielectric layer and electrically shorted to the continuous layer, a blocking dielectric region located over the floating gate, and a control gate located over the blocking dielectric layer.