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Effect of low-k oxide thickness variation on gate-all-around floating gate with optimized SiO2/La2O3 tunnel barrier

A. Hamid, Farah and Alias, N. Ezaila and Johari, Zaharah and Hamzah, Afiq and Tan, M. L. Peng and Ismail, Razali (2019) Effect of low-k oxide thickness variation on gate-all-around floating gate with optimized SiO2/La2O3 tunnel barrier. Materials Research Express, 6 (11). 1150C6-1150C6. ISSN 2053-1591

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/ab2869

Abstract

This paper reports the use of a novel lanthanum oxide (La2O3) tunnel barrier layer with low-k materials, silicon dioxide (SiO2) to improve Gate-All-Around Floating Gate (GAA-FG) memory performance performed using 3-Dimensional (3D) simulator of Silvaco ATLAS. We examine the ability of Variable Oxide Thickness (VARIOT) concept for several high-k dielectric materials using lanthanum oxide, yttrium (III) oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium dioxide and hafnium (IV) oxide (La2O3, Y2O3, Al2O3, ZrO2 and HfO2) to evaluate the memory characteristics including tunneling current, program/erase (P/E) operation and memory window. In this work, low-k oxide thickness, SiO2 is varied at 1:1:4 nm. Importantly, this finding shows that the combination of SiO2/La2O3 asymmetric stack have distinct consequences at the lowest programming voltage with Vprog = 4.7 V. In addition, the ability of silicon dioxide / lanthanum oxide (SiO2/La2O3) tunnel stack is significantly improved when the low-k oxide thickness, SiO2 is reduced. The proposed thickness ratio of SiO2 on GAA-FG memory cell yields substantial increased in memory window from 0.04 V to 5.0 V at the same P/E time, t = 0.1 ms. The optimized SiO2/La2O3 combination in this study demonstrated potentials flash memory architecture in the future.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:Floating Gate, Oxide Thickness
Subjects:T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:Electrical Engineering
ID Code:88655
Deposited By: Widya Wahid
Deposited On:15 Dec 2020 10:36
Last Modified:15 Dec 2020 10:36

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