- 전하 포획 플래시 소자를 위한 Al2O3/La2O3/SiO2 다층 박막 구조의 메모리 특성
- ㆍ 저자명
- 차승용,김효준,최두진,Cha. Seung-Yong,Kim. Hyo-June,Choi. Doo-Jin
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 한국재료학회지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2009년|19권 9호|pp.462-467 (6 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국재료학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The Charge Trap Flash (CTF) memory device is a replacement candidate for the NAND Flash device. In this study, Pt/$Al_2O_3/La_2O_3/SiO_2$/Si multilayer structures with lanthanum oxide charge trap layers were fabricated for nonvolatile memory device applications. Aluminum oxide films were used as blocking oxides for low power consumption in program/erase operations and reduced charge transports through blocking oxide layers. The thicknesses of $SiO_2$ were from 30 $AA$ to 50 $AA$. From the C-V measurement, the largest memory window of 1.3V was obtained in the 40 $AA$ tunnel oxide specimen, and the 50 $AA$ tunnel oxide specimen showed the smallest memory window. In the cycling test for reliability, the 30 $AA$ tunnel oxide sample showed an abrupt memory window reduction due to a high electric field of 9$sim$10MV/cm through the tunnel oxide while the other samples showed less than a 10% loss of memory window for $10^4$ cycles of program/erase operation. The I-V measurement data of the capacitor structures indicated leakage current values in the order of $10^{-4}A/cm^2$ at 1V. These values are small enough to be used in nonvolatile memory devices, and the sample with tunnel oxide formed at $850^{circ}C$ showed superior memory characteristics compared to the sample with $750^{circ}C$ tunnel oxide due to higher concentration of trap sites at the interface region originating from the rough interface.