Affiliation:
1. Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract
With gate length (Lg) and gate spacing length (Ls) shrinkage, the cell-to-cell z-interference phenomenon is increasingly severe in 3D NAND charge-trap memory. It has become one of the key reliability concerns for 3D NAND cell scaling. In this work, z-interference mechanisms were investigated in the programming operation with the aid of Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD) and silicon data verification. It was found that the inter-cell trapped charges are one of the factors causing z-interference after cell programming, and these trapped charges can be modulated during programming. Thus, a novel program scheme is proposed to suppress the z-interference by reducing the pass voltage (Vpass) of the adjacent cells during programming. As a result, the proposed scheme suppresses the Vth shift of 40.1% for erased cells with Lg/Ls = 31/20 nm. In addition, this work further analyzes the optimization and balance of program disturbance and z-interference with the scaling of cell Lg-Ls based on the proposed scheme.
Funder
the National Key Research and Development Program of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Control and Systems Engineering
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