EP1456876A2 - Memory cell with a trench transistor - Google Patents
Memory cell with a trench transistorInfo
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- EP1456876A2 EP1456876A2 EP02791622A EP02791622A EP1456876A2 EP 1456876 A2 EP1456876 A2 EP 1456876A2 EP 02791622 A EP02791622 A EP 02791622A EP 02791622 A EP02791622 A EP 02791622A EP 1456876 A2 EP1456876 A2 EP 1456876A2
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- the present invention relates to a memory cell with a memory transistor which has a gate electrode on an upper side of a semiconductor body or a semiconductor layer, which has a gate in a trench formed in the semiconductor material of the semiconductor body or the semiconductor layer and which has cross sections which are at least sectionally identical to a longitudinal direction, is arranged between a source region and a drain region, a dielectric layer provided as a storage medium, preferably an ONO layer, being present between the gate electrode and the semiconductor material.
- DE 100 39 441 A1 describes a memory cell with a trench transistor which is arranged in a trench formed on an upper side of a semiconductor body.
- An oxide-nitride-oxide layer sequence is present between the gate electrode introduced into the trench and the source region adjoining it on the side and the drain region adjoining it on the other side, which is used for trapping charge carriers at the source and drain is provided.
- Such transistors are particularly for NVM
- Memory cell arrangements non-volatile memory suitable.
- the areas which each have the necessary electric field strengths for programming and erasing are generally at different positions with these transistors. As a result, once programmed, loads on the
- FIG. 5 a diagram is shown for explanation, which shows the gate electrode 4, the gate dielectric 9, which can in particular be an ONO storage layer, and the semiconductor material adjacent to it with the channel region 5 from left to right.
- the energy that increases in the direction of the arrow is plotted in the vertical direction marked with the arrow.
- the entered curves a and b indicate the upper limit of the valence band and the lower limit of the conduction band.
- Two Fermi energy levels Efi and E f2 are shown. Up to these energy levels, the states that can only be occupied according to the Pauli principle are filled with electrons. If the Fermi energy level E f ⁇ is lower, there are only a few electrons in the conduction band at the boundary of the semiconductor material, as is indicated in FIG. 5 by the hatched area. It can be seen that in
- FIG. 6 shows a typical transistor structure in cross section, in which a source region 2, a drain region 3, a gate electrode 4, a gate dielectric 9 and the channel region 5 are shown.
- a space charge zone of the channel which forms is delimited by dashed lines.
- the region in which the electrons have an energy suitable for programming is also located at the end of the channel region, which here on one side of the trench bottom directly below the transition of the p-type doped substrate into the n + conductive doped drain region ends.
- this area of preferred programming is located at the bottom of the trench approximately at the bottom right.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a memory cell with a trench transistor in which the programming and
- the depth of the trench in relation to an area in which charge carriers of the storage layer are neutralized during a deletion process is selected so that during a programming process one is parallel to the tangent to a wall or to the bottom of the trench and perpendicular to component in the longitudinal direction of the trench of an electric field acting on the charge carriers is maximal in the same area.
- the trench depth is optimized in such a way that the locations for electron and hole injections coincide.
- the junctions, in which the doping of the source region and the drain region changes into the opposite sign of the conductivity type of the substrate or semiconductor body, abut against a curved region of the trench bottom or a curved lower region of the lateral trench walls.
- Figure 1 shows a cross section through two adjacent trenches in the diagram as a schematic diagram.
- FIG. 2 shows the cross section according to FIG. 1 for two trenches simulated on the basis of a model calculation with a drawn-in course of the downward facing E-
- FIGS. 3 and 4 show corresponding cross sections for memory cells designed according to the invention.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show the representations explained in the introduction to the description.
- FIG. 1 shows a cross section in which two trenches produced in a semiconductor body 1 as a substrate or in a semiconductor layer applied to a substrate are shown. At least in sections, the transverse cuts of the trenches in the longitudinal direction of the trenches are the same. The representation of FIG. 1 would therefore look the same for a cut in front of and behind the plane of the drawing. In the description and in the claims, the longitudinal direction of the trenches is to be understood as this direction, along which a perpendicular cut does not change.
- a source region 2 and a drain region 3 are formed by introducing dopant, here referred to as an example of the left trench transistor.
- the semiconductor body 1 is, for. B. doped p-type; the source region 2 and the drain region 3 are then designed to be n + -conducting.
- junctions 14 The generally clearly defined boundaries between the regions doped in opposite directions are referred to below as junctions 14; their position within the semiconductor material is detectable (for example with SIMS).
- a channel region 5 is formed below the source and drain regions opposite the gate electrode at the interface of the semiconductor material.
- the side walls 6, 8 and the bottom 7 of the trench are understood to be the surface of the semiconductor material facing the trench.
- a dielectric layer 9 as a gate dielectric, which covers the walls and the bottom of the trench.
- This dielectric layer 9 is designed as a storage medium.
- Layer 9 preferably has multiple layers and comprises at least one storage layer 11 which, in the example shown in FIG. 1, is arranged between boundary layers 10, 12.
- the boundary layers 10, 12 are, for. B. oxides, here especially silicon dioxide, while the storage layer 11 can be nitride, here Si 3 N 4 .
- a voltage of 0 V to the gate electrode 4 a ⁇ voltage of 9 V and the drain region 3, a voltage of 6 V for programming at; for deletion there is, for example, -8 V at the gate electrode and 5 V at the drain region.
- the dielectric layer 9 in the bottom region of the trench is omitted in the drawing, which is indicated by corresponding break lines.
- a horizontal arrow 22 to indicate the lateral direction from source to drain and a vertical arrow 23 to indicate the vertical direction into the depth of the trench are shown.
- the electrical voltage is applied to the source regions 2 and the drain regions 3 via contacts mounted thereon in front of and behind the plane of the drawing, while the gate voltage is connected across the transverse, i.e. H. word line 13 extending in the drawing plane is supplied.
- the voltage values drawn in for a trench with a bottom in the form of the shell of a half cylinder result in a distribution of the electrical field strength, the component of which, in the cross-sectional plane shown, tangentially to the bottom or to the wall of the trench to the right below the junction is maximum.
- FIG. 2 in which the cross section shown in FIG. 1 as a schematic diagram for the model calculation for trenches with a semi-cylindrical bottom is shown.
- the curves drawn represent the lines of the cross-section on which the component E y of the electric field designated by the arrow each has the same value. Certain can be derived from this Draw conclusions about the magnitude of the component of the electric field that runs tangentially to the trench wall or to the trench bottom within this cross section.
- FIG. 3 shows a memory cell of this type which has been optimized in accordance with the invention, in which the relevant region of the bottom curvature of the trench is arranged in the vicinity of the pn junction between the drain region 3 and the semiconductor material doped in the opposite direction.
- the exact dimensions of the memory cell optimized in this regard can be found for a respective exemplary embodiment on the basis of model calculations and simulations familiar to the person skilled in the art and / or experimentally on the basis of implemented components without fundamental difficulties.
- the storage cell according to the invention ensures that a lateral curvature lies between the actual floor and the essentially vertical side wall of the trench in the area in which the hole injection takes place during the deletion process.
- the areas intended for programming and deleting by injecting load carriers are thus covered directly above the pn junction. The trench depth is reduced accordingly.
- averaging is carried out over a certain area.
- the vertical dimension of the trench has an overhang downwards beyond the junctions 14, which is referred to below as the depth 25 of the trench.
- the depth 25 of the trench is referred to below as the depth 25 of the trench.
- this depth 25 is at most half as large as the distance 24 of the walls of the trench (trench width) at the height of the junctions 14.
- the depth 25 is selected depending on the relevant geometric shape of the trench cross section such that the junctions 14 meet the wall touch the trench in an area in which the curve of the wall of the trench in a cross section oriented transversely to the longitudinal direction has a radius of curvature which is at most two thirds as large as the distance 24 of the walls of the trench at the height of the junctions 14.
- the distance 24 of the walls of the trench at the level of the junctions 14 is at most twice as large as this radius, namely at most 2r.
- the radius of curvature of the trench floor is everywhere r in this example; accordingly, the depth 25 is preferably at most equal to r, better somewhat smaller.
- the depth is 55 nm or slightly less. Since the channel length should not be too short, a value of 30 nm can be specified as the lower limit for the depth 25 that should be observed if possible.
- the optimal total trench depth measured from the plane of the top of the semiconductor body or the semiconductor layer is in the range from 180 nm to 205 nm for a radius r from 55 nm and from 180 nm to 220 nm for a radius r of 70 nm.
- the bottom of the trench need not have the shape of the shell of a complete half cylinder; the trench walls on the side can directly or at a short distance above the junctions essentially evenly adjoin the curved bottom, so that there only the jacket of a segment of a half cylinder, that is, the jacket of a cylinder sector with a central angle below 180 °, is present on the ground.
- the trench depth is to be adapted accordingly to other radii of curvature of the trench floor or other forms of the trench floor.
- the level of the dopant concentrations also plays a role, a possible additional implantation of the channel region 5 also having to be taken into account.
- An implantation to increase the conductivity of the channel and to reduce the electric field at the points of greater trench curvature makes it possible to provide a somewhat stronger curvature even in those areas of the trench bottom in which no charge carrier injection into the storage layer is to take place. It is therefore within the scope of the invention to provide a somewhat tapered trench bottom and in the region of the deepest point of the trench bottom an implantation of dopant into the semiconductor material present underneath.
- the depth 25 can be greater than half the distance 24 between the walls of the trench at the height of the junctions 14. But also in this example, in the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the trench, the curve of the wall where the junctions 14 abut the trench walls, have a radius of curvature of at most two thirds of the distance 24.
- the depth 25 of the trench is significantly less than half the distance 24 of the walls of the trench at the level of the junctions 14, in particular if the trench has a bottom with a less curved or flat inner portion and has more curved lateral portions and the far predominant portions of the walls run at least almost vertically, so that a substantial curvature is only present on the lower sides of the floor.
- the channel length may not be sufficient with a very shallow depth 25 and a fairly shallow trench bottom, or at least a part of the optimization sought according to the invention will be compensated for because of the short channel length.
- FIG. 4 shows a corresponding cross section of a further exemplary embodiment, in which the lateral walls of the trenches are arranged in a clearly oblique manner in the upper regions with an angle of inclination of approximately 5 ° to the vertical.
- the lateral walls 6, 8 have narrow regions 15, 17 which extend somewhat above the trench floor 7 in the longitudinal direction of the trenches and in which the direction of the lateral walls bends slightly within the cross section.
- the directions of the tangents to the walls lie within the cross section in larger angular ranges of up to 10 ° to the vertical.
- the bottom 7 of the trench is here curved relatively weakly, so that between the lower regions 16, 18 of the side walls and the bottom 7 of the trench there are areas of markedly greater curvature of the trench wall.
- the depth 25 of the trench is selected approximately such that the pn junction (junction 14) between the source region and the oppositely doped semiconductor material or between the drain region and the oppositely doped semiconductor material is approximately at the level of the latter Curvature or just above it. It can also be assumed here that the programming takes place in the area of the trench wall just above the area with the greatest curvature.
- the dielectric layer 9 in the lower region is omitted in the cross section of the right trench in FIG. 4, which is also indicated here by corresponding break lines.
- radii of curvature 19, 20 and 21 are entered with lengths that are not to scale without any claim to precision. The lengths shown are only intended to illustrate that the radius of curvature 19 is very small in the areas present to the side of the actual floor.
- the adjoining regions 16, 18 of the side walls have a substantially larger radius of curvature 20.
- the radius of curvature 21 of the base 7 is also relatively large.
- the proportion of the wall that is formed by side walls can be defined by the relatively small angle of inclination of at most 10 ° to the vertical (arrow 23) .
- portions of the wall of the trench are located between these side walls and a deepest point of the ground, each of which has a radius of curvature which is at most half as large at each point within the cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of FIG. 4 is like the distance 24 of the walls of the trench at the level of the junctions 14.
- the junctions 14 abut the lateral walls of the trenches in these areas.
- the area in which the hole injection takes place during extinguishing coincides at least approximately with the area of greatest curvature of the wall of the trench. It can therefore be advantageous if the junctions 14 abut the lateral trench walls in a region in which the radius of curvature is at most 10% larger than its smallest value assumed on the trench wall.
- the memory cell preferably has the mirror-symmetrical design shown in the figures, since in this case, by reversing the applied voltages, the programming and deletion can also take place in the area of the memory layer which is located on the left in the figures.
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