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Abstract

An erase method applicable to dual-gate memory strings has key advantages over erase methods for other thin-film non-volatile memory strings. The advantages include (a) fast erase without any source-to-body short; (b) flexible erase which erases any number of memory cells in a block (i.e., from none to all cells); (c) source voltage may be set to optimize non-selected string channel boosting; and (d) the thickness of the thin-film device's body can be optimized for scalability. The method uses the access devices of the dual-gate memory cells in a memory string to form inversion channels, so as to provide conductive paths between the memory cells to be erased and a node at a more positive voltage than the erase voltage applied to the gate electrodes of the memory devices to be erased.

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