Invention Application
- Patent Title: Semiconductor Memory Having Volatile and Multi-Bit Non-Volatile Functionality and Method of Operating
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Application No.: US15893625Application Date: 2018-02-10
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Publication No.: US20180174654A1Publication Date: 2018-06-21
- Inventor: Yuniarto Widjaja
- Applicant: Zeno Semiconductor, Inc.
- Main IPC: G11C14/00
- IPC: G11C14/00 ; G11C16/02 ; G11C16/04 ; H01L29/792 ; H01L27/108 ; G11C11/56 ; H01L29/78

Abstract:
A semiconductor memory cell, semiconductor memory devices comprising a plurality of the semiconductor memory cells, and methods of using the semiconductor memory cell and devices are described. A semiconductor memory cell includes a substrate having a first conductivity type; a first region embedded in the substrate at a first location of the substrate and having a second conductivity type; a second region embedded in the substrate at a second location of the substrate and have the second conductivity type, such that at least a portion of the substrate having the first conductivity type is located between the first and second locations and functions as a floating body to store data in volatile memory; a trapping layer positioned in between the first and second locations and above a surface of the substrate; the trapping layer comprising first and second storage locations being configured to store data as nonvolatile memory independently of one another; and a control gate positioned above the trapping layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US10210934B2 Semiconductor memory having volatile and multi-bit non-volatile functionality and method of operating Public/Granted day:2019-02-19
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