Blocking dielectric engineered charge trapping memory cell with high speed erase
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1. A charge trapping memory comprising an array of memory cells, respective memory cells in the array including:
- a semiconductor body including a channel having a channel surface, and source and drain terminals adjacent the channel;
a dielectric stack between a gate and the channel surface;
the dielectric stack comprising;
a tunneling dielectric layer;
a charge trapping dielectric layer on the tunneling dielectric layer;
a blocking dielectric layer on the charge trapping dielectric layer, the blocking dielectric layer comprising a metal doped silicon oxide having a dielectric constant κ
between 4.5 and 7.
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Abstract
A band gap engineered, charge trapping memory cell includes a charge trapping element that is separated from a gate by a blocking layer of metal doped silicon oxide material having a medium dielectric constant, such as aluminum doped silicon oxide, and separated from the semiconductor body including the channel by an engineered tunneling dielectric.
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1. A charge trapping memory comprising an array of memory cells, respective memory cells in the array including:
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a semiconductor body including a channel having a channel surface, and source and drain terminals adjacent the channel;
a dielectric stack between a gate and the channel surface;the dielectric stack comprising; a tunneling dielectric layer; a charge trapping dielectric layer on the tunneling dielectric layer; a blocking dielectric layer on the charge trapping dielectric layer, the blocking dielectric layer comprising a metal doped silicon oxide having a dielectric constant κ
between 4.5 and 7. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A charge trapping memory comprising an array of memory cells, respective memory cells in the array including:
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a semiconductor body including a channel having a channel surface, and source and drain terminals adjacent the channel; a tunneling dielectric layer on the channel surface, including a first silicon oxide layer adjacent the channel and having a thickness of 20 Å
or less, a silicon nitride layer on the first silicon oxide layer having a thickness of 30 Å
or less, and a silicon oxide layer on the silicon nitride layer having a thickness of 30 Å
or less;a charge trapping layer on the tunneling dielectric layer comprising silicon nitride having a thickness of 50 Å
or more;a blocking dielectric layer on the charge trapping layer, the blocking dielectric layer comprising aluminum doped silicon oxide having between 0.1 and 50 atomic % aluminum relative to a sum of aluminum and silicon atoms; and a gate on the blocking dielectric layer comprising polysilicon. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A method for manufacturing a charge trapping memory comprising:
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forming a semiconductor body including a channel region on a semiconductor body, the channel region having a channel surface, and source and drain terminals adjacent the channel; forming a gate overlying the channel region; forming dielectric stack between the channel surface and the gate, including forming a tunneling dielectric layer;
forming a charge trapping dielectric layer; and
forming a blocking dielectric layer, the blocking dielectric layer comprising a metal doped silicon oxide having a dielectric constant κ
between 4.5 and 7. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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