• DocumentCode
    2635464
  • Title

    Investigation on physical origins of endurance failures in PRAM

  • Author

    Bae, J.S. ; Hwang, K.M. ; Park, K.H. ; Jeon, S.B. ; Choi, J. ; Ahn, J.H. ; Kim, S.S. ; Ahn, D. -H ; Jeong, H.S. ; Nam, S.W. ; Jeong, G.T. ; Cho, H.K. ; Jang, D.H. ; Park, C.-G.

  • Author_Institution
    Semicond. R&D Center, Samsung Electron. Co. Ltd., Hwaseong, South Korea
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    15-19 April 2012
  • Abstract
    Endurance failures are classified into three groups, all of which originate from the atomic transport of GST due to electromigration in molten phase. Based on the analysis, cell structure insusceptible to the atomic transport and for better cycling performance was proposed.
  • Keywords
    antimony compounds; electromigration; failure analysis; germanium compounds; phase change memories; GeSbTe; PRAM; atomic transport; cell structure; cycling performance; electromigration; endurance failures; molten phase; phase change random access memory; physical origins; Computer architecture; Electrodes; Electromigration; Phase change random access memory; Probes; Resistance; Tomography; Bias dependent atomic transport; Electromigration; GeSbTe; PRAM;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • ISSN
    1541-7026
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1678-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1541-7026
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRPS.2012.6241900
  • Filename
    6241900