• DocumentCode
    2189959
  • Title

    Multilayer tunneling barriers for nonvolatile memory applications

  • Author

    Blomme, P. ; Govoreanu, B. ; Rosmeulen, M. ; Van Houdt, J. ; De Meyer, K.

  • Author_Institution
    STDI Div., IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    24-26 June 2002
  • Firstpage
    153
  • Lastpage
    154
  • Abstract
    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.
  • Keywords
    EPROM; MOS capacitors; dielectric thin films; flash memories; tunnelling; EEPROM; SiO/sub 2/-ZrO/sub 2/; SiO/sub 2//ZrO/sub 2/ stacks; capacitors; charge trapping; erasing performance; flash memory; floating gate nonvolatile memories; multilayer tunneling barriers; nonvolatile memory applications; programming performance; Capacitors; Dielectric constant; EPROM; High K dielectric materials; Lead compounds; Low voltage; Nonhomogeneous media; Nonvolatile memory; Testing; Tunneling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Device Research Conference, 2002. 60th DRC. Conference Digest
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7317-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/DRC.2002.1029569
  • Filename
    1029569