Abstract:
A three-dimensional light emitting device and a method for fabricating the light emitting device are provided. The light emitting device comprises a substrate and a semiconductor nanoparticle layer wherein the substrate is provided with a plurality of three-dimensional recesses and the surface having the recesses is coated with semiconductor nanoparticles. According to the three-dimensional light emitting device, the formation of the semiconductor nanoparticles on the surface of the recessed substrate increases the light emitting area and enhances the luminescence intensity, leading to an increase in the amount of light emitted from the light emitting device per unit area. Therefore, the three-dimensional light emitting device has the advantage of improved luminescence efficiency.
Abstract:
Provided is an aluminum (Al) doped charge trap layer, a non-volatile memory device and methods of fabricating the same. The charge trap layer may include a plurality of silicon nano dots that trap charges and a silicon oxide layer that covers the silicon nano dots, wherein the charge trap layer is doped with aluminum (Al). The non-volatile memory device may include a substrate including a source and a drain on separate regions of the substrate, a tunneling film on the substrate contacting the source and the drain, the charge trap layer according to example embodiments, a blocking film on the charge trap layer, and a gate electrode on the blocking film.
Abstract:
Provided are a charge trap semiconductor memory device including a charge trap layer on a semiconductor substrate, and a method of manufacturing the charge trap semiconductor memory device. The method includes: (a) coating a first precursor material on a surface of a semiconductor substrate to be deposited and oxidizing the first precursor material to form a first layer formed of an insulating material; (b) coating a second precursor material formed of metallicity on the first layer; (c) supplying the first precursor material on the surface coated with the second precursor material to substitute the second precursor material with the first precursor material; and (d) oxidizing the first and second precursor materials obtained in (c) to form a second layer formed of an insulating material and a metal impurity, and (a) through (d) are performed at least one time to form a charge trap layer having a structure in which the metal impurity is isolated in the insulating material.
Abstract:
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device may include applying a program voltage to a memory cell. A supplementary pulse may be applied to the memory cell to facilitate thermalization of charges after the application of the program voltage. A recovery voltage may be applied to the memory cell after the application of the supplementary pulse. A program state of the memory cell may be verified using a verification voltage after the application of the recovery voltage.
Abstract:
A semiconductor memory device may include a semiconductor substrate, a control gate electrode recessed in the semiconductor substrate, a storage node layer between the control gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a tunneling insulating layer between the storage node layer and the semiconductor substrate, a blocking insulating layer between the storage node layer and the control gate electrode, and first and second channel regions surrounding the control gate electrode and separated by a pair of opposing separating insulating layers. A method of operating the semiconductor memory device may include programming data in the storage node layer by charge tunneling through the blocking insulating layer, thus achieving relatively high reliability and efficiency.
Abstract:
Memory devices is provided, the memory devices include a tunneling insulating layer disposed on a substrate, a charge storage layer disposed on the tunneling insulating layer, a blocking insulating layer disposed on the charge storage layer and a control gate electrode disposed on the blocking insulating layer. The control gate electrode may have an edge portion spaced farther apart from the blocking insulating layer than a central portion of the control gate electrode to concentrate charge density distribution on a central portion of a memory cell.
Abstract:
Provided are methods of operating NAND nonvolatile memory devices. The operating methods include applying a read voltage or a verify voltage to a selected memory cell from among a plurality of memory cells of a cell string to verify or read a programmed state of the selected memory cell; applying a first pass voltage to non-selected memory cells closest to the selected memory cell of the cell string; applying a second pass voltage to second closest non-selected memory cells to the selected memory cell; and applying a third pass voltage to other non-selected memory cells, where the first pass voltage is less than each of the second and third pass voltages and the second pass voltage is greater than the third pass voltage.
Abstract:
A nonvolatile memory device including a nano dot and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device may include a lower electrode, an oxide layer on the lower electrode, a nano dot in the oxide layer and an upper electrode on the oxide layer. In example embodiments, the current paths inside the oxide layer may be unified, thereby stabilizing the reset current.
Abstract:
Crystalline aluminum oxide layers having increased energy band gap, charge trap memory devices including crystalline aluminum oxide layers and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. A method of forming an aluminum oxide layer having an increased energy band gap includes forming an amorphous aluminum oxide layer on a lower film, introducing hydrogen (H) or hydroxyl group (OH) into the amorphous aluminum oxide layer, and crystallizing the amorphous aluminum oxide layer including the H or OH.
Abstract:
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device may include applying a program voltage to a memory cell. A supplementary pulse may be applied to the memory cell to facilitate thermalization of charges after the application of the program voltage. A recovery voltage may be applied to the memory cell after the application of the supplementary pulse. A program state of the memory cell may be verified using a verification voltage after the application of the recovery voltage.