Patent 7402493 was granted and assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
According to a nonvolatile memory device having a multi gate structure and a method for forming the same of the present invention, a gate electrode is formed using a damascene process. Therefore, a charge storage layer, a tunneling insulating layer, a blocking insulating layer and a gate electrode layer are not attacked from etching in a process for forming the gate electrode, thereby forming a nonvolatile memory device having good reliability.