A highly manufacturable integration technology for 27nm 2 and 3bit/cell NAND flash memory
Choong-Ho Lee, Suk‐Kang Sung, Dong-Hoon Jang, Sehoon Lee, Seungwook Choi, Jonghyuk Kim, Sejun Park, Min-Sung Song, Hyun-Chul Baek, Eungjin Ahn, Jin-Hyun Shin, Kwang-Shik Shin, Kyunghoon Min, S.M. Cho, Chang-Jin Kang, Jungdal Choi, Keonsoo Kim, Jeong-Hyuk Choi, Kang-Deog Suh, Tae-Sung Jung · 2010
A highly manufacturable multi-level NAND flash memory with a 27nm design rule has been successfully developed for the first time. Its unit cell size is 0.00375um2(with overhead). Self Aligned Reverse Patterning is used to improve initial Vth distribution induced from DPT (Double Patterning Technology) process. By using advanced channel doping technique, the channel junction leakage is minimized and the Vpass window is improved. The optimized doping structure and cell operation scheme are evaluated. And finally 2 and 3bit per cell operation are successfully demonstrated with flash cells of 32Gb density with reasonable reliability.