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EnglishThis paper presents vertical Si-nanowire (SiNW) gate-all-around nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices of two different kinds: junction based and junctionless (JL). Si nanocrystals (SiNCs) and silicon nitride (SiN) are used as trap layers. The devices are fabricated using complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor compatible top-down process technology and compared on the bases of improved performance and reduced process complexity. The junction-based 50-nm vertical SiNW memory device with a SiNC trap layer shows significant performance improvements on program/erase (P/E) speed and windows (3.5 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V) over a memory cell with a SiN trap layer (1.3 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V). On the other hand, the JL device with a SiN trap layer, realized on a highly scaled SiNW channel down to 20 nm, is found to have comparable memory characteristics (3.2 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V) to a corresponding 20-nm SiNW junction-based cell (3.2 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V). Despite that, the absence of junctions reduces process complexity and makes a vertical SiNW a suitable platform for multilevel stacked ultra-high density memory applications.
| Titolo: | Vertical-Si-Nanowire-Based Nonvolatile Memory Devices With Improved Performance and Reduced Process Complexity |
| Autore/i: | Y. Sun; H. Y. Yu; N. Singh; K. C. Leong; GNANI, ELENA; BACCARANI, GIORGIO; G. Q. Lo; D. L. Kwong |
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| Anno: | 2011 |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2011.2114664 |
| Abstract: | This paper presents vertical Si-nanowire (SiNW) gate-all-around nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices of two different kinds: junction based and junctionless (JL). Si nanocrystals (SiNCs) and silicon nitride (SiN) are used as trap layers. The devices are fabricated using complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor compatible top-down process technology and compared on the bases of improved performance and reduced process complexity. The junction-based 50-nm vertical SiNW memory device with a SiNC trap layer shows significant performance improvements on program/erase (P/E) speed and windows (3.5 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V) over a memory cell with a SiN trap layer (1.3 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V). On the other hand, the JL device with a SiN trap layer, realized on a highly scaled SiNW channel down to 20 nm, is found to have comparable memory characteristics (3.2 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V) to a corresponding 20-nm SiNW junction-based cell (3.2 V in 1-ms P/E at +15/-16 V). Despite that, the absence of junctions reduces process complexity and makes a vertical SiNW a suitable platform for multilevel stacked ultra-high density memory applications. |
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