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  • A highly scalable 8-layer V...
    Shih-Hung Chen; Hang-Ting Lue; Yen-Hao Shih; Chieh-Fang Chen; Tzu-Hsuan Hsu; Yan-Ru Chen; Yi-Hsuan Hsiao; Shih-Cheng Huang; Kuo-Pin Chang; Chih-Chang Hsieh; Guan-Ru Lee; Chuang, Alfred-Tung-Hua; Chih-Wei Hu; Chia-Jung Chiu; Lo Yueh Lin; Hong-Ji Lee; Feng-Nien Tsai; Chin-Cheng Yang; Tahone Yang; Chih-Yuan Lu

    2012 International Electron Devices Meeting, 2012-Dec.
    Conference Proceeding

    We demonstrate an 8-layer 3D Vertical Gate NAND Flash with WL half pitch =37.5nm, BL half pitch=75nm, 64-WL NAND string with 63% array core efficiency. This is the first time that a 3D NAND Flash can be successfully scaled to below 3Xnm half pitch in one lateral dimension, thus an 8-layer stack device already provides a very cost effective technology with lower cost than the conventional sub-20nm 2D NAND. Our new VG architecture has two key features: (1) To improve the manufacturability a new layout that twists the even/odd BL's (and pages) in the opposite direction (split-page BL) is adopted. This allows the island-gate SSL devices 1 and metal interconnections be laid out in double pitch, creating much larger process window for BL pitch scaling; (2) A novel staircase BL contact formation method using binary sum of only M lithography and etching steps to achieve 2 M contacts. This not only allows precise landing of the tight-pitch staircase contacts, but also minimizes the process steps and cost. We have successfully fabricated an 8-layer array using TFT BE-SONOS charge-trapping device. The array characteristics including reading, programming, inhibit, and block erase are demonstrated.