摘要:
A heterojunction bipolar transistor is fabricated by stacking a Si collector layer, a SiGeC base layer and a Si emitter layer in this order. By making the amount of a lattice strain in the SiGeC base layer on the Si collector layer 1.0% or less, the band gap can be narrower than the band gap of the conventional practical SiGe (the Ge content is about 10%), and good crystalline can be maintained after a heat treatment. As a result, a narrow band gap base with no practical inconvenience can be realized.
摘要:
A semiconductor device comprises an Si substrate, an isolation insulating film formed on the Si substrate, an Si layer formed on the Si substrate, a gate oxide film formed on the Si layer, a gate electrode formed on the gate oxide film, a sidewall formed on the side face of the gate electrode, a gate silicide film formed on the gate electrode, source and drain regions formed at both the sides of the gate electrode and including a part of the Si layer, and a silicide film formed on the source and drain regions. Because the source and drain regions are formed on a layer-insulating film so as to be overlayed, it is possible to decrease the active region and cell area of a device. Thereby, a high-speed operation and high integration can be realized.
摘要:
A variable capacitor includes an N+ layer including a variable capacitance region, a P+ layer epitaxially grown on the N+ layer and formed from a SiGe film and a Si film, and a P-type electrode. An NPN-HBT (Hetero-junction Bipolar Transistor) includes a collector diffusion layer formed simultaneously with the N+ layer of the variable capacitor, a collector layer, and a Si/SiGe layer epitaxially grown simultaneously with the P+ layer of the variable capacitor. Since a depletion layer formed in a PN junction of the variable capacitor can extend entirely across the N+ layer, reduction in variation range of the capacitance can be suppressed.
摘要:
A heterojunction bipolar transistor is fabricated by stacking a Si collector layer, a SiGeC base layer and a Si emitter layer in this order. By making the amount of a lattice strain in the SiGeC base layer on the Si collector layer 1.0% or less, the band gap can be narrower than the band gap of the conventional practical SiGe (the Ge content is about 10%), and good crystalline can be maintained after a heat treatment. As a result, a narrow band gap base with no practical inconvenience can be realized.
摘要:
A driving method for driving a variable resistance element and a nonvolatile memory device, which achieves stable storage operation. In a low resistance write process, a low resistance writing voltage pulse having the negative polarity is applied once to a variable resistance layer included in a variable resistance element while in a high resistance write process, a high resistance writing voltage pulse having the positive polarity is applied more than twice to the same variable resistance layer. Here, when a voltage value of one of the high resistance writing voltage pulses is VH1 and a voltage value of the other high resistance writing voltage pulse applied subsequently is VH2, VH1>VH2 is satisfied.
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory element (20) of the present invention comprises a resistance variable element (14) and a diode (18) which are formed on a substrate (10) such that the resistance variable element (14) has a resistance variable layer (11) sandwiched between a lower electrode (12) and an upper electrode (13), and the diode (18) which is connected in series with the resistance variable element (14) in the laminating direction and has an insulating layer or semiconductor layer (15) sandwiched between a first electrode (16) at the lower side and a second electrode (17) at the upper side. The resistance variable layer (11) is embedded in a first contact hole (21) formed on the lower electrode (12). A first area (22) where insulating layer or semiconductor layer (15) of the diode (18) is in contact with a first electrode (16) of the diode (18) is larger than at least one of a second area (23) where the resistance variable layer (11) is in contact with the upper electrode (13) and a third area (24) where the resistance variable layer (11) is in contact with the lower electrode (12).
摘要:
A method for programming a nonvolatile memory device according to the present invention includes a step of detecting an excessively low resistance cell from among a plurality of memory cells (11) (S101); a step of changing the resistance value of a load resistor (121) to a second resistance value smaller than a first resistance value (S103); and a step of causing, by applying a voltage pulse to a series circuit including the excessively low resistance cell and the load resistor (121) having the second resistance value, a variable resistance element (105) included in the excessively low resistance cell to shift to a second high resistance state having a resistance value greater than that of the first low resistance state (S104).
摘要:
A nonvolatile memory element of the present invention comprises a first electrode (103), a second electrode (108); a resistance variable layer (107) which is interposed between the first electrode (103) and the second electrode (107) and is configured to switch a resistance value reversibly in response to an electric signal applied between the electrodes (103) and (108), and the resistance variable layer (107) has at least a multi-layer structure in which a first hafnium-containing layer having a composition expressed as HfOx (0.9≦x≦1.6), and a second hafnium-containing layer having a composition expressed as HfOy (1.8
摘要翻译:本发明的非易失性存储元件包括第一电极(103),第二电极(108) 介于第一电极(103)和第二电极(107)之间的电阻变化层(107),其被配置为响应于施加在电极(103)和(108)之间的电信号可逆地切换电阻值, ,并且电阻变化层(107)具有至少多层结构,其中具有表示为HfO x(0.9 @ x @ 1.6)的组成的第一含铪层和具有表达的组成的第二含铪层 因为HfOy(1.8