Patent ID: 8759809
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. An integrated circuit comprising a nonvolatile memory cell, the nonvolatile memory cell comprising: a first electrode, a second electrode, and an ion conductive material between the first and second electrodes; the second electrode having an electrochemically active surface directly against the ion conductive material and an electrochemically inactive surface directly against the ion conductive material; the second electrode being elevationally outward of the first electrode; the first electrode extending laterally in a first direction, the ion conductive material extending laterally in a second direction different from and intersecting the first direction, the first electrode being directly against the ion conductive material only where the first and second directions intersect, the second electrode having a lateral outermost sidewall and the ion conductive material having a transverse outermost sidewall directly against the second electrode lateral outermost sidewall, the second electrode being directly against the ion conductive material only at the transverse outermost sidewall of the ion conductive material; and the first electrode being platelike and having an elevational thickness which is greater than thinnest transverse thickness of the first electrode, the first platelike electrode having an elevationally outermost surface; the ion conductive material being platelike and having an elevational thickness which is greater than thinnest transverse thickness of the ion conductive material, the platelike ion conductive material having an elevationally innermost surface that is directly against the elevationally outermost surface of the first platelike electrode; the first platelike electrode and the platelike ion conductive material intersecting at an angle relative one another.