摘要:
The present invention provides antifuse structures having an integrated heating element and methods of programming the same, the antifuse structures comprising first and second conductors and a dielectric layer formed between the conductors, where one or both of the conductors functions as both a conventional antifuse conductor and as a heating element for directly heating the antifuse dielectric layer during programming.
摘要:
An integrated circuit device having at least one fuse capable of being blown in order to provide measurements of fuse current-voltage characteristics is provided. The integrated circuit device also provides at least one pulse generation circuit associated with the fuse and capable of generating a pulse to blow the fuse through one or more DC input signals.
摘要:
The present invention relates to electrical fuses that each comprises at least one thin film transistor. In one embodiment, the electrical fuse of the present invention comprises a hydrogenated thin film transistor with an adjacent heating element. Programming of such an electrical fuse can be effectuated by heating the hydrogenated thin film transistor so as to cause at least partial dehydrogenation. Consequentially, the thin film transistor exhibits detectible physical property change(s), which defines a programmed state. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the electrical fuse comprises a thin film transistor that is either hydrogenated or not hydrogenated. Programming of such an alternative electrical fuse can be effectuated by applying a sufficient high back gate voltage to the thin film transistor to cause state changes in the channel-gate interface. In this manner, the thin film transistor also exhibits detectible property change(s) to define a programmed state.
摘要:
The present invention provides electrically-programmable fuse structures having radiation inhibitive properties for preventing non-destructive security breaches by radiation imaging techniques such as X-ray imaging, without adversely effecting fuse programmability, and methods of designing the same.
摘要:
A reversible fuse structure in an integrated circuit is obtained through the implementation of a fuse cell having a short thin line of phase change materials in contact with via and line structures capable of passing current through the line of phase change material (fuse cell). The current is passed through the fuse cell in order to change the material from a less resistive material to a more resistive material through heating the phase change material in the crystalline state to the melting point then quickly quenching the material into the amorphous state. The reversible programming is achieved by passing a lower current through the fuse cell to convert the high resistivity amorphous material to a lower resistivity crystalline material. Appropriate sense-circuitry is integrated to read the information stored in the fuses, wherein said sense circuitry is used to enable or disable circuitry.
摘要:
A multi-level via structure for a semiconductor chip in which the collective area of a vias structure is not entirely oriented directly in-line with the collective area of an adjacent vias structure. In one embodiment, adjacent via structure areas appear to be crisscrossed in relation to one another and in another embodiment adjacent via structure areas do not coincide at all from a perpendicular perspective.
摘要:
A silicided polysilicon based fuse device that is programmable by optical and electrical energy in the polysilicon layer without damage to nearby structures, comprising: a Si substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate; and a fuse device section comprising poly-Si/a silicide/ and a barrier layer, the fuse device section forming an electrical discontinuity in the poly Si layer in response to an electrical pulse or an optical pulse applied to it.
摘要:
An antifuse having a dielectric disposed between a plurality of conductive elements is programmed with one of the conductive elements connected to a capacitor. The antifuse is programmed to an “on” state by precharging the capacitor and then applying a programming voltage to another one of the conductive elements. This results in the breakdown of the interposed dielectric to form a conductive link between the conductive elements. Immediately, following the formation of a conductive link, the electrical energy stored in the capacitor is released through the conductive link across the dielectric. Further, the capacitor can be common to a plurality of programmable antifuses and the application of the programming voltage serves to select one of the plurality of antifuses to be ‘blown’. This arrangement can be realized in a FET and the device can be easily integrated in the CMOS process commonly used for the manufacture of memory arrays and logic circuitry.
摘要:
An antifuse has first and second semiconductor regions having one conductivity type and a third semiconductor region therebetween having an opposite conductivity type. A conductive region contacting the first region has a long dimension in a second direction transverse to the direction of a long dimension of a gate. An antifuse anode is spaced apart from the first region in the second direction and a contact is connected with the second region. Applying a programming voltage between the anode and the contact with gate bias sufficient to fully turn on field effect transistor operation of the antifuse heats the first region to drive a dopant outwardly, causing an edge of the first region to move closer to an edge of the second region and reduce electrical resistance between the first and second regions by an one or more orders of magnitude.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a memory device is provided that may begin with forming a layered gate stack atop a semiconductor substrate and patterning a metal electrode layer stopping on the high-k gate dielectric layer of the layered gate stack to provide a first metal gate electrode and a second metal gate electrode on the semiconductor substrate. In a next process sequence, at least one spacer is formed on the first metal gate electrode atop a portion of the high-k gate dielectric layer, wherein a remaining portion of the high-k gate dielectric is exposed. The remaining portion of the high-k gate dielectric layer is etched to provide a first high-k gate dielectric having a portion that extends beyond a sidewall of the first metal gate electrode and a second high-k gate dielectric having an edge that is aligned to a sidewall of the second metal gate electrode.