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Kioxia Develops New 3D "Twin BiCS FLASH" Semicircular Flash Memory Cell Structure

Kioxia Develops New 3D "Twin BiCS FLASH" Semicircular Flash Memory Cell Structure

PC components Dec 12,2019 0

Kioxia Corp. has developed the world’s first three-dimensional (3D) semicircular split-gate flash memory cell structure “Twin BiCS FLASH” using specially designed semicircular Floating Gate (FG) cells.

The company (formely Toshiba Memory Corp.), says that Twin BiCS FLASH achieves "superior program slope and a larger program/erase window at a much smaller cell size compared to conventional circular Charge Trap (CT) cells." These attributes make this new cell design a promising candidate to surpass four bits per cell (QLC) for significantly higher memory density and fewer stacking layers.

The technology was announced at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco, CA.

3D flash memory technology has achieved high bit density with low cost per bit by increasing the number of cell stacked layers as well as by implementing multilayer stack deposition and high aspect ratio etching. In recent years, as the number of cell layers exceeds 100, managing the trade-offs among etch profile control, size uniformity and productivity is becoming increasingly challenging. To overcome this problem, Kioxia developed a new semicircular cell design by splitting the gate electrode in the conventional circular cell to reduce cell size compared to the conventional circular cell, enabling higher-density memory at a lower number of cell layers.

The circular control gate provides a larger program window with relaxed saturation problems when compared with a planar gate because of the curvature effect, where carrier injection through the tunnel dielectric is enhanced while electron leakage to the block (BLK) dielectric is lowered. In this split-gate cell design, the circular control gate is symmetrically divided into two semicircular gates to take advantage of the strong improvement in the program/erase dynamics.

As shown in the figure below, the conductive storage layer is employed for high charge trapping efficiency in conjunction with the high-k BLK dielectrics, achieving high coupling ratio to gain program window as well as reduced electron leakage from the FG, thus relieving the saturation issue. The experimental program/erase characteristics reveal that the semicircular FG cells with the high-k-based BLK exhibit significant gains in the program slope and program/erase window over the larger-sized circular CT cells. The semicircular FG cells, having superior program/erase characteristics, are expected to attain comparably tight QLC Vt distributions at small cell size. Further, integration of low-trap Si channel makes possible more than four bits/cell, e.g., Penta-Level Cell (PLC) as shown in Fig. 3. These results confirm that semicircular FG cells are a viable option to pursue higher bit density.

Kioxia will continue the research and development efforts for the Twin BiCS FLASH aiming at practical applications.

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