Abstract
In this letter, the authors fabricate the silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide- silicon (SONOS)-like memory using an HfO2as charge trapping layer deposited by a very simple sol-gel spin-coating method and 900°C 1-min rapid thermal annealing. They examine the quality of sol-gel HfO2 charge trapping layer by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, Id-V g, charge retention, and endurance. The threshold voltage shift is 1.2 V for the sol-gel HfO2 trapping layer. The sol-gel HfO2 film can form a deep trap layer to trap electrons for the SONOS-like memory. Therefore, the sol-gel device exhibits the long charge retention time and good endurance performance. The charge retention time is 104 s with only 6% charge loss and long endurance program/erase cycles up to 105.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 653-655 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Electron Device Letters |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Aug 2006 |
Keywords
- Charge retention
- Endurance
- HfO
- Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS)-like memory
- So-gel spin coating