To improve writing characteristics by reducing high electric-field leakage.
A semiconductor device of an embodiment comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a charge accumulation layer formed on an active region partitioned by an element isolation insulating film in the semiconductor substrate via a gate insulating film; an inter-electrode insulating film formed on an upper surface of the element isolation insulating film and on a side surface and an upper surface of the charge accumulation layer; and a control electrode layer formed on the inter-electrode insulating film. The inter-electrode insulating film has a lamination structure in which a silicon nitride film or a high dielectric constant film is sandwiched by a two-layered silicon oxide film or a lamination structure of the high dielectric constant film and the silicon oxide film and a second silicon nitride film formed between the lamination structure and the control electrode layer. A portion on the upper surface of the charge accumulation layer in the second silicon nitride film is lost.
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IIKAWA HIROFUMI
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