摘要:
Methods of operating a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises applying one of a positive bias voltage and a negative bias voltage to a ferroelectric memory cell comprising a capacitor including a top electrode, a bottom electrode, a ferroelectric material between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, and an interfacial material between the ferroelectric material and one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The method further comprises applying another of the positive bias voltage and the negative bias voltage to the ferroelectric memory cell to switch a polarization of the ferroelectric memory cell, wherein an absolute value of the negative bias voltage is different from an absolute value of the positive bias voltage. Ferroelectric memory cells are also described.
摘要:
High-throughput deposition of a voltage-tunable dielectric material onto a substrate comprising a conductive electrode is provided. Respective gradients in at least two grain size defining parameters of the deposition are simultaneously provided, the respective gradients occurring for a first time period thereby producing a smoothly changing columnar crystalline habit of the voltage-tunable dielectric material. When the first time period has ended, the deposition continues for a second time period where the grain size defining parameters are held constant. In particular, the smoothly changing columnar crystalline habit of the voltage-tunable dielectric material is intentionally distorted by simultaneously providing the respective gradients in the in at least two grain size defining parameters of the deposition.
摘要:
Methods of operating a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises applying one of a positive bias voltage and a negative bias voltage to a ferroelectric memory cell comprising a capacitor including a top electrode, a bottom electrode, a ferroelectric material between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, and an interfacial material between the ferroelectric material and one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The method further comprises applying another of the positive bias voltage and the negative bias voltage to the ferroelectric memory cell to switch a polarization of the ferroelectric memory cell, wherein an absolute value of the negative bias voltage is different from an absolute value of the positive bias voltage. Ferroelectric memory cells are also described.
摘要:
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a fabricated thin film capacitor formed by depositing a first dielectric layer on a first electrode layer utilizing a first process that is performed at a first temperature, depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer utilizing a second process that forms a randomly-oriented grain structure for the second dielectric layer, depositing a third dielectric layer on the second dielectric layer utilizing a third process that is performed at a second temperature and that forms a columnar-oriented grain structure for the third dielectric layer where the second temperature is higher than the first temperature, and depositing a second electrode layer on the third dielectric layer to form the thin film capacitor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) stack is described. The method includes forming a temporary stack by depositing a bottom electrode comprising at least one metal layer; depositing a dielectric comprising at least one layer of a dielectric material having a first dielectric constant value; and depositing a top electrode comprising at least one metal layer. The step of depositing the bottom and/or top electrode includes depositing a non-conductive metal oxide layer directly in contact with the dielectric; and after the step of depositing the bottom and/or top electrode's non-conductive metal oxide layer and the dielectric, subjecting the temporary stack to a stimulus, which transforms the non-conductive metal oxide into a thermodynamically stable oxide having conductive properties or into a metal, and the dielectric material into a crystalline form having a second dielectric constant value higher than the first dielectric constant value, thereby creating the final MIM stack.
摘要:
The method for manufacturing a PNbZT thin film of the present invention includes: a process of preparing a plurality of types of sol-gel solutions having different concentration ratio of zirconium and titanium (Zr/Ti) while satisfying the composition formula PbzNbxZryTi1-yO3 (0
摘要:
The invention relates to a device (10) including a plurality of thin layers (12, 14, 18) comprising a layer (14) formed with a polarizable ferroelectric material according to several polarization directions depending on an electric voltage applied to said layer of ferroelectric material, surrounded by a pair of conductive layers (12, 18) forming electrodes. The device of the invention comprises an intermediate layer (16) between said ferroelectric material layer (14) and one of the conductive layers (12, 18), said intermediate layer (16) consisting of a material for which the electronic properties are modified according to the direction of polarization in said adjacent ferroelectric material layout (14). The device for the invention finds particularly advantageous applications as a memory element of a non-volatile memory, as an element of a programmable logic circuit and as a microswitch.
摘要:
An interconnect structure for use in coupling transistors in an integrated circuit is disclosed, including various configurations in which ferroelectric capacitors exhibiting negative capacitance are coupled in series with dielectric capacitors. In one embodiment, the negative capacitor includes a dielectric/ferroelectric bi-layer. When a negative capacitor is electrically coupled in series with a conventional dielectric capacitor, the series combination behaves like a stable ferroelectric capacitor for which the overall capacitance can be measured experimentally, and tuned to a desired value. The composite capacitance of a dielectric capacitor and a ferroelectric capacitor having negative capacitance coupled in series is, in theory, infinite, and in practice, very large. A series combination of positive and negative capacitors within a microelectronic interconnect structure can be used to make high capacity DRAM memory cells.
摘要:
Ferroelectric capacitors used in ferroelectric random access memories (F-RAM) and methods for fabricating the same to reduce sidewall leakage are described. In one embodiment, the method includes depositing over a surface of a substrate, a ferro stack including a bottom electrode layer electrically coupled to a bottom electrode contact extending through the substrate, a top electrode layer and ferroelectric layer there between. A hard-mask is formed over the ferro stack, and a top electrode formed by etching through the top electrode layer and at least partially through the ferroelectric layer. A non-conductive barrier is formed on sidewalls formed by etching through the top electrode layer and at least partially through the ferroelectric layer, and then a bottom electrode is formed by etching the bottom electrode layer so that conductive residues generated by the etching are electrically isolated from the top electrode by the non-conductive barrier.
摘要:
A crystalline perovskite crystalline composite paraelectric material includes nano-regions containing rich N3− anions dispersed in a nano-grain sized matrix of crystalline oxide perovskite material, wherein (ABO3−δ)α-(ABO3−δ−γNγ)1−α. A represents a divalent element, B represents a tetravalent element, γ satisfies 0.005≦γ≦1.0, 1−α satisfies 0.05≦1−α≦0.9, and 1−α is an area ratio between the regions containing rich N3− anions and the matrix of remaining oxide perovskite material.