• DocumentCode
    1094780
  • Title

    Long-term retention of SNOS nonvolatile memory devices

  • Author

    Topich, James A.

  • Author_Institution
    NCR Microelectronics Division, Miamisburg, OH
  • Volume
    31
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    12/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1908
  • Lastpage
    1910
  • Abstract
    Long-term retention tests on thin oxide SNOS (silicon gate nitride oxide silicon) nonvolatile memory devices have shown that the charge storage characteristics of these devices do not follow a simple logarithmic decay as many theories predict. The measured threshold voltage decay shows a break in the slope of retention data for both the WRITTEN and ERASED states with smaller rates of charge loss per decade of time for longer times.
  • Keywords
    Capacitance; Charge coupled devices; Clocks; Electrodes; Image segmentation; Nonvolatile memory; Registers; Silicon; Threshold voltage; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-ED.1984.21811
  • Filename
    1484096