US Patent 7375394 Fringing field induced localized charge trapping memory

The present invention includes a semiconductor layer formed over an insulation layer and a substrate. Doped regions are formed in a portion of the semiconductor layer. A gate dielectric and a gate are respectively formed over the semiconductor layer. The arrangement of the gate sidewall and semiconductor layer surface is substantially orthogonal, multi-portion dielectric layer is formed on the gate and a portion of the silicon layer. Charge trapping dielectrics are attached on the multi-portion dielectric layer acting as carrier trapping structure. The gate-to-source/drain non-overlapped implantation is capable of storing multi-bits per transistor.