Multilayer tunneling barriers for nonvolatile memory applications

P. Blomme1,2, B. Govoreanu3,1,2, M. Rosmeulen1,2, J. Van Houdt3,1, K. De Meyer3,1,2
1STDI division, Leuven, Belgium
2ESAT, Leuven, Belgium
3STDI division, IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

Tóm tắt

A tunnel barrier consisting of two materials with different dielectric constant is demonstrated to show that improved programming and/or erasing performance is obtained compared to conventional oxide layers. It is also shown that charge trapping is not a showstopper for the application of such stacks in floating gate nonvolatile memory devices.

Từ khóa

#Nonhomogeneous media #Tunneling #Nonvolatile memory #Capacitors #Dielectric constant #Low voltage #High K dielectric materials #Testing #EPROM #Lead compounds

Tài liệu tham khảo

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