A High Capacitive Coupling Ratio (HiCR) Cell for Single 3 Volt Power Supply Flash Memories (Special Section on High Speed and High Density Multi Functional LSI Memories)

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A contact-less cell with high capacitive-coupling ratio (HiCR) of 0.8, which is programmed and erased by Fowler-Nordheim (F-N) tunneling, has been developed for single 3 V power-supply 64 Mbit and future flash memories. A 1.50μm^2 cell area is obtained by using 0.4μm technology. The HiCR cell structure is realized by 1) self-aligned definition of small tunneling regions underneath the floating-gate side wall and 2) an advanced rapid thermal process for 7.5nm-thick tunnel-oxynitride. The internal-voltages used for PROGRAM and ERASE are +8V and +12V, respectively. The use of low positive internal-voltages results in reducing total process step numbers compared with reported memory cells. The HiCR cell also realizes low power and fast random access with a single 3 V power-supply.
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1994-08-25