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Title: BE-SONOS flash memory along with metal gate and high-k dielectrics in tunnel barrier and its impact on charge retention dynamics
Authors: Vishvakarma, Santosh Kumar
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
Citation: Jain, S., Gupta, D., Neema, V., & Vishwakarma, S. (2016). BE-SONOS flash memory along with metal gate and high-k dielectrics in tunnel barrier and its impact on charge retention dynamics. Journal of Semiconductors, 37(3) doi:10.1088/1674-4926/37/3/034002
Abstract: We investigate the effect of a high-k dielectric in the tunnel layer to improve the erase speed-retention trade-off. Here, the proposed stack in the tunnel layer is AlLaO3/HfAlO/SiO2. These proposed materials possess low valence band offset with high permittivity to improve both the erase speed and retention time in barrier engineered silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (BE-SONOS). In the proposed structure HfAlO and AlLaO3 replace Si3N4 and the top SiO2 layer in a conventional oxide/nitride/oxide (ONO) tunnel stack. Due to the lower conduction band offset (CBO) and high permittivity of the proposed material in the tunnel layer, it offers better program/erase (P/E) speed and retention time. In this work the gate length is also scaled down from 220 to 55 nm to observe the effect of high-k materials while scaling, for the same equivalent oxide thickness (EOT). We found that the scaling down of the gate length has a negligible impact on the memory window of the devices. Hence, various investigated tunnel oxide stacks possess a good memory window with a charge retained up to 87.4% (at room temperature) after a period of ten years. We also examine the use of a metal gate instead of a polysilicon gate, which shows improved P/E speed and retention time.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4926/37/3/034002
https://dspace.iiti.ac.in/handle/123456789/6047
ISSN: 1674-4926
Type of Material: Journal Article
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