Non-volatile flash memory with discrete bionanodot floating gate assembled by protein template
Non-volatile flash memory with discrete bionanodot floating gate assembled by protein template
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DOI:
10.1088/0957-4484/19/25/255201
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发表时间:
2008-06
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3.5
通讯作者:
A. Miura;R. Tsukamoto;S. Yoshii;I. Yamashita;Y. Uraoka;T. Fuyuki
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作者:
A. Miura;R. Tsukamoto;S. Yoshii;I. Yamashita;Y. Uraoka;T. Fuyuki
We demonstrated non-volatile flash memory fabrication by utilizing uniformly sized cobalt oxide (Co3O4) bionanodot (Co-BND) architecture assembled by a cage-shaped supramolecular protein template. A fabricated high-density Co-BND array was buried in a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) structure to use as the charge storage node of a floating nanodot gate memory. We observed a clockwise hysteresis in the drain current–gate voltage characteristics of fabricated BND-embedded MOSFETs. Observed hysteresis obviously indicates a memory operation of Co-BND-embedded MOSFETs due to the charge confinement in the embedded BND and successful functioning of embedded BNDs as the charge storage nodes of the non-volatile flash memory. Fabricated Co-BND-embedded MOSFETs showed good memory properties such as wide memory windows, long charge retention and high tolerance to repeated write/erase operations. A new pathway for device fabrication by utilizing the versatile functionality of biomolecules is presented.