Semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor, portable electronic equipment, and IC card
First Claim
1. A semiconductor device wherein a logic circuit area having a semiconductor switching element and a memory area having a semiconductor storage element are disposed on one semiconductor substrate;
- wherein each of the semiconductor switching element and the semiconductor storage element has a gate electrode, a pair of source/drain regions of first conductivity type formed on portions of a semiconductor substrate surface corresponding to opposite sides of the gate electrode, and a channel forming region of second conductivity type formed between the source/drain regions;
wherein memory function bodies having a function of storing electric charges are provided on the opposite sides of the gate electrode of the semiconductor storage element; and
wherein in the semiconductor storage element, an amount of current that flows from one of the source/drain regions to the other of the source/drain regions upon application of a voltage to the gate electrode is variable depending on an amount of electric charges retained in the memory function body.
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Abstract
A semiconductor switching element and a semiconductor storage element each have a gate electrode, a pair of source/drain regions and a channel forming region. Memory function bodies having a function of storing electric charges are provided on opposite sides of the gate electrode of the semiconductor storage element. In the semiconductor storage element, an amount of current that flows from one of the source/drain regions to the other of the source/drain regions upon application of a voltage to the gate electrode is variable depending on an amount of electric charges retained in the memory function body.
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33 Claims
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1. A semiconductor device wherein a logic circuit area having a semiconductor switching element and a memory area having a semiconductor storage element are disposed on one semiconductor substrate;
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wherein each of the semiconductor switching element and the semiconductor storage element has a gate electrode, a pair of source/drain regions of first conductivity type formed on portions of a semiconductor substrate surface corresponding to opposite sides of the gate electrode, and a channel forming region of second conductivity type formed between the source/drain regions;
wherein memory function bodies having a function of storing electric charges are provided on the opposite sides of the gate electrode of the semiconductor storage element; and
wherein in the semiconductor storage element, an amount of current that flows from one of the source/drain regions to the other of the source/drain regions upon application of a voltage to the gate electrode is variable depending on an amount of electric charges retained in the memory function body. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A semiconductor device manufacturing method for forming a semiconductor storage element in a memory area set on a semiconductor substrate while concurrently forming a semiconductor switching element in a logic circuit area set on the semiconductor substrate, comprising:
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forming gate electrodes on portions of a semiconductor substrate surface corresponding to the logic circuit area and the memory area, respectively, with a gate insulator disposed between each gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate surface;
in a state that a mask is provided so as to prevent a dopant from being introduced into the memory area, introducing the dopant into the logic circuit area with the gate electrode used as a mask to form a first doped region in the logic circuit area, the first doped region becoming part of a source/drain region;
forming a memory function body having a function of storing electric charges on a side face of the gate electrode in at least the memory area; and
introducing a dopant of a conductivity type identical to that of the dopant used in the foregoing step into the logic circuit area and the memory area with the gate electrodes and the memory function body used as masks to form second doped regions in the logic circuit area and the memory area, the second doped regions becoming at least part of each of source/drain regions in the logic circuit area and the memory area. - View Dependent Claims (33)
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