• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.148-152
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• 2004

The direct lateral profile and retention characteristics of locally trapped-charges in the nitride layer of the two-bit polysilicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) memory are investigated by using the charge pumping method. After charges injection at the drain junction region, the lateral diffusion of trapped charges as a function of retention time is directly shown by the results of the local threshold voltage and the trapped-charges quantities.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.138-142
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• 2019

As the NAND flash memory goes to 3D vertical Silicon-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon (SONOS) structure, the lateral charge migration can be critical in the reliability performance. Even more, with miniaturization of flash memory cell device, just a little movement of trapped charge can cause reliability problems. In this paper, we propose a method of predicting the trapped charge profile in the retention mode. Charge diffusivity in the charge trapping layer (Si₃N₄) was extracted experimentally, and the effect on the trapped charge profile was demonstrated by the simulation and experiment.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.167-173
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• 2017

In this paper, the characterization of the vertical position of trapped charges in the charge-trap flash (CTF) memory is performed in the novel CTF memory cell with gate-all-around structure using technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulation. In the CTF memories, injected charges are not stored in the conductive poly-crystalline silicon layer in the trapping layer such as silicon nitride. Thus, a reliable technique for exactly locating the trapped charges is required for making up an accurate macro-models for CTF memory cells. When a programming operation is performed initially, the injected charges are trapped near the interface between tunneling oxide and trapping nitride layers. However, as the program voltage gets higher and a larger threshold voltage shift is resulted, additional charges are trapped near the blocking oxide interface. Intrinsic properties of nitride including trap density and effective capture cross-sectional area substantially affect the position of charge centroid. By exactly locating the charge centroid from the charge distribution in programmed cells under various operation conditions, the relation between charge centroid and program operation condition is closely investigated.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 멀티 레벨 플래쉬 메모리 셀의 프로그램 포화영역에서 트랩된 전하 손실 효과에 의한 데이터 보유 특성에 대한 연구를 진행하였다. Incremental Step Pulse Programming(ISPP) 방식에 의한 전압 인가 시 셀의 문턱 전압은 선형적으로 증가하다 일정 수준 이상의 전압에 도달하면 더 이상 증가 하지 않는 현상을 문턱 전압 포화 현상이라고 한다. 이는 프로그램 시 플로팅 게이트에 축적된 전하가 Inter-Poly Dielectric(IPD) 층을 통해 컨트롤 게이트로 빠져 나가는 것에 원인이 있다. 본 연구는 열적 스트레스에 의한 문턱 전압의 보유 특성이 선형 영역에서보다 포화 영역에서 심각하게 저하되는 현상의 원인규명에 대한 연구이다. 이를 평가하기 위해 프로그램 후 데이터 보유(data retention) 특성 평가 및 반복 읽기 측정을 진행하였다. 또한 여러 가지 측정 패턴을 이용한 측정 조건 분리 실험을 통해 검증하였다. 그 결과 포화 영역에서의 문턱 전압 저하 특성의 원인은 포화 시 가해진 높은 전압에 의해 플로팅 게이트와 컨트롤 게이트 사이의 인터 폴리 절연막 IPD 층의 질화막에 트랩된 전자의 손실 효과인 것으로 나타났다. IPD 층의 질화막에 전하 트랩 현상이 발생하고 열적 스트레스가 가해진 후 트랩된 전하가 다시 빠져 나오면서 문턱 전압의 저하가 발생하고 이는 소자의 신뢰성에 나쁜 영향을 미친다. 낸드 플래쉬 메모리 셀의 프로그램 포화 영역 문턱 전압을 증가시키기 위해서는 질화막에 트랩된 전하의 손실을 고려하여 플로팅 게이트의 전하저장 능력을 향상시켜야 하며 IPD 막에 대한 주의 깊은 설계가 필요하다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.343-347
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• 2004

High oxidation temperature of SiC shows a tendency of carbide formation at the interface which results in poor MOSFET transfer characteristics. Thus we developed oxidation processes in order to get low interface charge densities. N-type 6H-SiC MOS capacitors were fabricated by different oxidation processes: dry, wet, and dry­reoxidation. Gate oxidation and Ar anneal temperature was $1150^{\circ}C.$ Ar annealing was performed after gate oxidation for 30 minutes. Dry-reoxidation condition was $950^{\circ}C,$ H2O ambient for 2 hours. Gate oxide thickness of dry, wet and dry-reoxidation samples were 38.0 nm, 38.7 nm, 38.5 nm, respectively. Mo was adopted for gate electrode. To investigate quality of these gate oxide films, high frequency C- V measurement, gate oxide leakage current, and interface trapped charge densities (Dit) were measured. The interface trapped charge densities (Dit) measured by conductance method was about $4\times10^{10}[cm^{-1}eV^{-1}]$ for dry and wet oxidation, the lowest ever reported, and $1\times10^{11}[cm^{-1}eV^{-1}]$ for dry-reoxidation

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.770-773
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 tapering과 ferroelectric(HfO₂)구조가 적용된 3D NAND flash memory의 프로그램 이후 시간경과에 따른 retention특징을 분석했다. Nitride에 trap된 전자는 시간이 지남에 따라 lateral charge migration이 발생한다. 프로그램 이후 시간이 지남에 따라 trap된 전자가 tapering에 의해 두꺼워진 채널 쪽으로 lateral charge migration이 더 많이 발생하는 것을 확인했다. 또한 Oxide-Nitride-Ferroelectric (ONF) 구조는 polarization에 의해 lateral charge migration이 완화되기 때문에 기존 Oxide-Nitride-Oxide (ONO) 구조 보다 문턱전압(V_th)의 변화량이 줄어든다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.193-198
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• 2005

NOR type flash 32 ${\times}$ 32 way are fabricated by using the typical 0.35 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process. The structure of array is the NOR type with common source line. In this paper, optimized program and erase voltage conditions are presented to realize multi-bit per cell at the CSL-NOR array. These are considered selectivity of selected bit and disturbances of unselected bits. Retention characteristics of locally trapped-charges in the nitride layer are investigated. The lateral diffusion and vertical detrapping to the tunneling oxide of locally trapped charges as a function of retention time are investigated by using the charge pumping method. The results are directly shown by change of the trapped-charges quantities.

• 한국조명전기설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 1990년도 추계학술발표회논문집
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• pp.63-67
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• 1990

Many characteristics of space charge in insulating materials which is the cause of insulation break down was measured quantita-tively. It was confirmed that injection charge of the electrode was trapped to form mainly space charge. In the present paper, collecting potential was determined by TSSP and mean depths of space distribution was investigated by measuring variation quantity of space charge under the different bias time, voltage and temperature. Experimental resuts was in good agreement with model analysis on a stedy state.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.483-489
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• 1995

To investigate the mechanism generated by irradiation in the insulator layer irradiated MIS (Metal - Insulator - Semiconductor) device, the various types of MIS capacitors depending on insulator thickness, insulator types and implanted impurities are fabricated on the P-type wafer. MIS capacitors exposed by 1Mrad Co$^{60}$ .gamma.-ray are measured for flat band voltage and charge density shifts pre- and post-irradiation. The measuring results of post-irradiation show the flat band voltage shifting toward negative direction and charge density increasing regardless of parameters. This results have a good agreement with calculated data by computer simulation. Si$_{3}$N$_{4}$ layers have a good radiation-hardness than SiO$_{2}$ layers compared to the results of post-irradiation. Also, radiation-induced negative trap is discovered in the implanted insulator layer. Using numerical analysis, four continuty equations (conduction-band electrons continuity equation, valence-band holes continuity equation, trapped electrons continuity equation, trapped holes continuity equation) are solved and charge distributions according to the distance and Si-Insulator interface states are investigated.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2006년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.894-897
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• 2006

Spatial distribution of injected electrons and holes is evaluated by using single-junction charge pumping technique in SONOS(Poly-silicon/Oxide/Nitride/Oxide/Silicon) memory cells. Injected electron are limited to length of ONO(Oxide/Nitride/oxide) region in locally ONO stacked cell, while are spread widely along with channel in fully ONO stacked cell. Hot-holes are trapped into the oxide as well as the ONO stack in locally ONO stacked cell.