Hey...
In the NVM,
why we call the stuff which located under the gate the floating gate?
Please tell me the why of calling floating gate.
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15 years ago
Why we call it "floating gate"
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15 years ago
A gate is floating if it has no electrical connection to anything else, namely if it's a conductive slab surrounded by insulating oxide in all directions.
Charge is transferred to/from the gate by tunneling through the oxide, or some similar process, which generally takes an unusually high voltage, ultraviolet exposure, or something special like that.
John