True Nonvolatile High-Speed DRAM Cells Using Tailored Ultrathin IGZO

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 35(2023), 20 vom: 22. Mai, Seite e2210554
1. Verfasser: Hu, Qianlan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gu, Chengru, Li, Qijun, Zhu, Shenwu, Liu, Shiyuan, Li, Yu, Zhang, Lining, Huang, Ru, Wu, Yanqing
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article DRAM IGZO high speed multi-bit nonvolatile
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Zusammenfassung:© 2023 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Severe power consumption in the continuous scaling of Silicon-based dynamic random access memory (DRAM) technology quests for a transistor technology with a much lower off-state leakage current. Wide bandgap amorphous oxide semiconductors, especially indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) exhibit many orders of magnitude lower off-state leakage. However, they are typically heavily n-doped and require negative gate voltage to turn off, which prevents them from true nonvolatile operation. The efforts on doping density reduction typically result in mobility degradation and high Schottky barriers at contacts, causing severe degradation of on-current and operation speed of the DRAM cells. Here, high-speed true nonvolatile DRAM cells are successfully demonstrated by deep suppression of doping density in the IGZO channel using in situ oxygen ion beam treatment and ohmic contact engineering by inserting a thin In-rich indium-tin-oxide (ITO) at contact regions. A record high on-current of 40 µA µm-1  at a large positive threshold voltage of 1.78 V enables the first true nonvolatile DRAM with the fastest write speed of 10 ns and data retention up to 25 h under power interruption, five orders of magnitude higher than the previously projected values
Beschreibung:Date Completed 18.05.2023
Date Revised 18.05.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202210554