Radiation effects on floating-gate memory cells

G Cellere, P Pellati, A Chimenton… - … on Nuclear Science, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have addressed the problem of threshold voltage (V/sub TH/) variation in flash memory
cells after heavy-ion irradiation by using specially designed array structures and test …

NROM memory cell, memory array, related devices and methods

KD Prall, L Forbes - US Patent 7,535,048, 2009 - Google Patents
US7535048B2 - NROM memory cell, memory array, related devices and methods - Google
Patents US7535048B2 - NROM memory cell, memory array, related devices and methods …

Flash memory having a high-permittivity tunnel dielectric

L Forbes - US Patent 7,157,769, 2007 - Google Patents
A high permittivity tunneling dielectric is used in a flash memory cell to provide greater
tunneling current into the floating gate with smaller gate voltages. The flash memory cell has …

Vertical NROM NAND flash memory array

L Forbes - US Patent 7,339,239, 2008 - Google Patents
Memory devices are typically provided as internal storage areas in the computer. The term
memory identifies data storage that comes in the form of integrated circuit chips. There are …

Fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS logic

L Forbes - US Patent 6,830,963, 2004 - Google Patents
6,147.904 A 6,157,570 A 6,172,396 B1 6,174,758 B1 6,175,523 B1 6,181,597 B1 6,184,089
B1 6,201,282 B1 6,201,737 B1 6,204,529 B1 6,207,504 B1 6,208,557 B1 6.215, 702 B1 …

NROM flash memory with a high-permittivity gate dielectric

L Forbes - US Patent 7,221,018, 2007 - Google Patents
A high permittivity gate dielectric is used in an NROM memory cell. The gate dielectric has a
dielectric constant greater than silicon dioxide and is comprised of an atomic layer deposited …

Fully depleted silicon-on-insulator CMOS logic

L Forbes - US Patent 7,078,770, 2006 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A extractor implanted region is used in a silicon-on-insulator CMOS
memory device. The extractor region is reversed biased to remove minority carriers from the …

Multi-state memory cell with asymmetric charge trapping

K Prall - US Patent 7,616,482, 2009 - Google Patents
A multi-state NAND memory cell includes two drain/source areas in a substrate. An oxide-
nitride-oxide structure is formed above the substrate between the drain/source areas. The …

Vertical device 4F2 EEPROM memory

L Forbes - US Patent 6,878,991, 2005 - Google Patents
4,420,504 A 12/1983 Cooper(57) ABSTRACT 4,755,864 A 7/1988 Ariizumi 4,881,114 A
11/1989 Mohsen EEPROM memory devices and arrays are described that 5,241,496 A …

Vertical NROM having a storage density of 1 bit per 1F2

L Forbes - US Patent 6,853,587, 2005 - Google Patents
316,390; 438/259 (57) ABSTRACT (56) References Cited Structures and methods for
vertical memory cell. The ver tical memory cell includes a vertical metal oxide Semicon US …