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Fowler-Nordheim tunneling through a thin tunnel oxide to and from a MOSFET floating gate is used as the program and erase mechanism. This was the practical implementation of D. Kahng and S.M. Sze’s floating gate concept shown in Figure 12. Figure 18: Eli Harari’s Electrically Erasable Nonvolatile