The Effect of Field Oxide Recess on Cell $V_{\rm TH}$ Distribution of nand Flash Cell Arrays
| Autor: | Sung-Hoi Hur, Chang-Sub Lee, Keon-Soo Kim, Min-Cheol Park, Won-Seong Lee |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Uniform distribution (continuous)
Materials science business.industry Electrical engineering NAND gate Integrated circuit Flash memory Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials law.invention Process variation law Logic gate Electric field Optoelectronics Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Voltage |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Electron Device Letters. 29:1050-1052 |
| ISSN: | 0741-3106 |
| Popis: | We present our study on the effect of field oxide recess on cell-programming-speed uniformity of nand flash cell memory. Due to the short distance between the control gate and the shallow-trench-isolation (STI) edge, the control-gate voltage generates uniform distribution of an electric field on the STI edge and provides strong immunity to fabrication process variation in cell programming. Therefore, the optimized field oxide recess offers an inherently narrower cell V TH distribution, fastening multilevel-cell programming speed while minimizing the floating-gate interference. Experimental results on 63-nm cell arrays show that the cell V TH distribution is reduced by 18% or more as field oxide recess increases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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