摘要:
The present invention offers a variable resistance device and a semiconductor apparatus that have component parts less subject to damage and thereby ensure stable quality at a high yield, even if the manufacturing processes include operations in a deoxidizing atmosphere or an oxidizing atmosphere. The variable resistance device of the present invention comprises: a variable resistance layer made of a metal oxide and causing changes in electric resistance thereof in accordance with control conditions; and a hydrogen-diffusion preventing layer which surrounds at least part of the variable resistance layer and prevents hydrogen from diffusing into the variable resistance layer.
摘要:
The variable resistance device of the present invention comprises a variable resistance layer. The variable resistance layer is made of a material which has an electric resistance changing in accordance with an applied electric field and maintains the electric resistance after being changed in a nonvolatile manner. Provided for the variable resistance layer are four electrodes independent of each other. Of them, two electrodes constitute a control electrode pair, while the remaining two electrodes constituting a read electrode pair. The controle electrode pair is formed for applying an electric field to the variable resistance layer. On the other hand, the read electrode pair is formed as a data path making use of changes in the electric resistance.
摘要:
A variable resistance nonvolatile memory element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a variable resistance layer including: a first oxide layer including a metal oxide having non-stoichiometric composition and including p-type carriers; a second oxide layer located between and in contact with the first oxide layer and a second electrode and including a metal oxide having non-stoichiometric composition and including n-type carriers; an oxygen reservoir region located in the first oxide layer, having no contact with the first electrode, and having an oxygen content atomic percentage higher than that of the first oxide layer; and a local region located in the second oxide layer, having contact with the oxygen reservoir region, and having an oxygen content atomic percentage lower than that of the second oxide layer.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory element includes a current controlling element having a non-linear current-voltage characteristic, a resistance variable element which changes reversibly between a low-resistance state and a high-resistance state in which a resistance value of the resistance variable element is higher than a resistance value of the resistance variable element in the low-resistance state, in response to voltage pulses applied, and a fuse. The current controlling element, the resistance variable element and the fuse are connected in series, and the fuse is configured to be blown when the current controlling element is substantially short-circuited.
摘要:
A manufacturing method for manufacturing, with a simple process, a non-volatile memory apparatus having a stable memory performance includes: (a) forming a stacking-structure body above a substrate by alternately stacking conductive layers comprising a transition metal and interlayer insulating films comprising an insulating material; (b) forming a contact hole penetrating through the stacking-structure body to expose part of each of the conductive layers; (c) forming variable resistance layers by oxidizing the part of each of the conductive layers, the part being exposed in the contact hole, and each of the variable resistance layers having a resistance value that reversibly changes according to an application of an electric signal; and (d) forming a pillar electrode in the contact hole by embedding a conductive material in the contact hole, the pillar electrode being connected to each of the variable resistance layers.
摘要:
Each of memory cells (MC) includes one transistor and one resistance variable element. The transistor includes a first main terminal, a second main terminal and a control terminal. The resistance variable element includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a resistance variable layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. A first main terminal of one of two adjacent memory cells is connected to a second main terminal of the other memory cell, to form a series path (SP) sequentially connecting main terminals of the plurality of memory cells in series. Each of the memory cells is configured such that the control terminal is a part of a first wire (WL) associated with the memory cell or is connected to the first wire associated with the memory cell, the second electrode is a part of a second wire (SL) associated with the memory cell or is connected to the second wire associated with the memory cell; and the first electrode is a part of a series path (SP) associated with the memory cell or is connected to the series path associated with the memory cell.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory element of the present invention comprises a first electrode (503); a second electrode (505); and a resistance variable layer (504) which is disposed between the first electrode (503) and the second electrode (505), a resistance value of the resistance variable layer being changeable in response to electric signals which are applied between the first electrode (503) and the second electrode (505), wherein the first electrode and the second electrode comprise materials which are made of different elements.
摘要:
A lower electrode layer 2, an upper electrode layer 4 formed above the lower electrode layer 2, and a metal oxide thin film layer 3 formed between the lower electrode layer 2 and the upper electrode layer 4 are provided. The metal oxide thin film layer 3 includes a first region 3a whose value of resistance increases or decreases by an electric pulse that is applied between the lower electrode layer 2 and the upper electrode layer 4 and a second region 3b arranged around the first region 3a and having a larger content of oxygen than the first region 3a, wherein the lower and upper electrode layers 2 and 4 and at least a part of the first region 3a are arranged so as to overlap as viewed from the direction of the thickness of the first region 3a.
摘要:
A resistance variable memory apparatus (100) of the present invention is a resistance variable memory apparatus (100) using a resistance variable element (22) transitioning between plural resistance states in response to electric pulses of the same polarity, in which a series resistance setting unit (10) is configured to set a resistance value of the series current path and a parallel resistance setting unit (30) is configured to set a resistance value of a parallel current path such that the resistance values become resistance values at which a node potential is not larger than a second voltage level in a state where an electric pulse application device (50) is outputting a first electric pulse after the resistance variable element (22) has switched to the high-resistance state, and the node potential is not larger than a first voltage level in the state where the electric pulse application device (50) is outputting a second electric pulse after the resistance variable element (22) has switched to the low-resistance state.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory element includes: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; and a variable resistance layer which is placed between the electrode layers, and whose resistance state reversibly changes between a high resistance state and a low resistance state based on a polarity of a voltage applied between the electrode layers. The variable resistance layer is formed by stacking a first oxide layer including an oxide of a first transition metal and a second oxide layer including an oxide of a second transition metal which is different from the first transition metal. At least one of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) a dielectric constant of the second oxide layer is larger than a dielectric constant of the first oxide layer; and (2) a band gap of the second oxide layer is smaller than a band gap of the first oxide layer.