The invention relates to the field of
semiconductor memories, and discloses a TN (tunnel
nitrate)-SONOS (
silicon oxide nitrate oxide silicon) memory with a composite
nitrogen-based
dielectric tunneling layer. The TN-SONOS memory comprises a
semiconductor substrate, a grid
electrode and a
dielectric laminate; the
semiconductor substrate comprises a channel, a source terminal and a drain terminal, and the source terminal and the drain terminal are adjacent to the channel; the
dielectric laminate is arranged between the grid
electrode and the surface of the channel and comprises a tunneling layer, a charge
trapping layer and a stopping layer, the tunneling layer is in contact with the surface of the channel, the charge
trapping layer is laminated on the upper side of the tunneling layer, and the stopping layer is laminated on the upper side of the charge
trapping layer and is in contact with the grid
electrode; and the tunneling layer is the composite dielectric tunneling layer and comprises a first layer consisting of
silicon oxynitride SiON(x), a second layer consisting of Si3N4 and a third layer consisting of
silicon oxynitride, SiON(y), the first layer is in contact with the surface of the channel, the second layer is adjacent to the first layer, and the third layer is adjacent to the second layer. By the TN-SONOS memory, the performance of a SONOS nonvolatile memory is improved, and the TN-SONOS memory can be applied to extremely small memory devices with high quality.