STTR Phase I: Fullerenic Molecule-Silica Hybrid Dielectrics for the Field-Sensitive Tunneling Barriers in Flash Memory

STTR 第一阶段：用于闪存中场敏隧道势垒的富勒烯分子-二氧化硅混合电介质

• 批准号: 0930526
• 负责人: Ramesh Sivarajan
• 金额: $ 14.59万
• 依托单位: NANO-C, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0930526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Fullerenic; Molecule; Silica

This Small business Technology Transfer Phase I project is to develop a novel Fullerene-Silica hybrid material system that exhibits multiple functionalities as part of a device heterostructure. The end goal is to develop a high-performance scalable non-volatile memory using a gate stack including a silica-fullerene double tunnel junction. The findings from this research work have the potential to help overcome scaling roadblocks in a 20B$ flash memory industry. The tunneling barrier can be further modified to create beneficial resonant tunneling effects that can boost the ratio of retention and program time. The expected result from this Phase 1 project is the extension of geometrical and voltage scaling of Flash memory by using engineered fullerene molecules in the gate stack. A quantitative model will be built for design optimization in terms of memory characteristics. This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

该小型企业技术转让第一阶段项目旨在开发一种新型富勒烯-二氧化硅混合材料系统，该系统作为设备异质结构的一部分表现出多种功能。最终目标是使用包括二氧化硅-富勒烯双隧道结的栅极堆叠来开发高性能可扩展非易失性存储器。这项研究工作的结果有可能帮助克服 20B 美元闪存行业的扩展障碍。可以进一步修改隧道势垒以产生有益的共振隧道效应，从而提高保留时间和编程时间的比率。该第一阶段项目的预期结果是通过在栅极堆叠中使用工程富勒烯分子来扩展闪存的几何和电压缩放。将建立一个定量模型，用于存储器特性方面的设计优化。该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。