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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Wei Xia, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Wei Xia, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 29/788 (2006.01); H01L 21/336 (2006.01); H01L 27/115 (2006.01); H01L 21/28 (2006.01); H01L 29/423 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/11543 (2013.01); H01L 21/28273 (2013.01); H01L 29/42324 (2013.01); H01L 29/7883 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embedded flash memory cell and a corresponding method for fabricating the embedded flash memory cell are disclosed. In some embodiments, the flash memory cell comprises a floating gate that has been formed using a metal gate and local interconnect metal. For some embodiments, the embedded flash memory can be fabricated with little-to-no additional processes than what one would normally employ in fabricating a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET).