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

Claim 0:
1. A non-volatile storage apparatus, comprising:
a control circuit configured to connect to a three dimensional memory structure having a plurality of conductive lines and a plurality of NAND strings associated with the plurality of conductive lines, each NAND string comprising non-volatile storage cells and a dummy select gate and a regular select gate, each dummy select gate having a control terminal, wherein each dummy select gate is connected to one of the conductive lines, wherein the regular select gate is between the dummy select gate and the non-volatile storage cells of the NAND string;
wherein the control circuit is configured to:
determine a present temperature with respect to the three dimensional memory structure; and
apply a voltage having a positive temperature coefficient to the control terminals of respective dummy select gates of a group of the NAND strings during a program operation.