Method for enabling SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Semiconductor) transistor to double as switch and memory

A transistor and memory technology, applied in the field of maintaining a stable critical voltage, can solve the problems of large energy consumption, lower reliability, deterioration, etc., and achieve the effect of high memory density
CN102054532AActive Publication Date: 2011-05-11ACER INC
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CN · China
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ACER INC
Publication Date
2011-05-11

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Abstract

The invention discloses a method for enabling an SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Semiconductor) transistor to double as a switch and a memory. The method comprises the following steps of: carrying out FN (Fowler-Nordheim) tunneling by utilizing a source electrode terminal or a drain electrode terminal of the memory; further changing an electronic storage state in an electric charge storage layer at the upside near the source electrode terminal or the drain electrode terminal; and judging a memory state of a drain electrode or a source electrode by utilizing grid induction drain leakage current change, wherein the transistor always maintains a stable critical voltage in the operation state. In the method, the single transistor is enabled to have dual characteristics of the switch and the memory simultaneously and have a binary memory effect, and a memory density higher than that of the common memory can be provided.
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[0001] The present invention relates to a method for making the SONOS transistor both a switch and a memory, and in particular relates to a method capable of maintaining a stable critical voltage. Background technique

[0002] At present, the general way of flash memory (flash type nonvolatile memory) to judge the memory state is to apply a threshold voltage (Threshold voltage) between the write (program) and erase (erase) threshold voltage on the gate (gate). Read the voltage Vread to read the corresponding current, so as to judge whether the memory state is "0" or "1". The size of the critical voltage difference (or memory window) between writing and erasing will affect the misjudgment probability of the memory state. The memory window must be large to avoid misjudgment of the memory state. Once the threshold voltage of the memory is changed, the transistor cannot be switched on and off correctly, so it cannot be used as a switch.

[0003] There are two t...

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