Patent ID: 11901007
Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-volatile storage system comprising:
a plurality of conductive lines;
a three-dimensional memory structure comprising a plurality of NAND strings and a plurality of word lines, each of the NAND strings comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, a regular select transistor, and a gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) transistor at an end of the NAND string that is connected to one of the conductive lines, the regular select transistor between the GIDL transistor and the non-volatile memory cells of the NAND string; and
a control circuit that:
applies a voltage between control terminals of respective GIDL transistors of a group of the NAND strings and the conductive lines at the end of the NAND strings having the respective GIDL transistors to generate gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) currents during an erase operation;

applies a program voltage to a selected word line connected to the group of NAND strings during a program operation; and
applies a voltage that has a positive dependence on temperature to the control terminals of the respective GIDL transistors of the group of the NAND strings while the program voltage is applied to the selected word line during the program operation.