|Número de publicación||US7551473 B2|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 11/871,813|
|Fecha de publicación||23 Jun 2009|
|Fecha de presentación||12 Oct 2007|
|Fecha de prioridad||12 Oct 2007|
|También publicado como||US20090095948|
|Número de publicación||11871813, 871813, US 7551473 B2, US 7551473B2, US-B2-7551473, US7551473 B2, US7551473B2|
|Inventores||Hsiang-Lan Lung, Chung Hon Lam, Matthew J. Breitwisch|
|Cesionario original||Macronix International Co., Ltd.|
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|Citas de patentes (99), Otras citas (50), Citada por (28), Clasificaciones (22), Eventos legales (3)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
International Business Machines Corporation, a New York corporation; Macronix International Corporation, a Taiwan corporation, and Infineon Technologies A.G., a German corporation, are parties to a Joint Research Agreement.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to integrated circuit nonvolatile memory. In particular, the invention relates to programmable resistive nonvolatile memory, such as phase change memory.
2. Description of Related Art
Nonvolatile memory stores data without requiring a continuous supply of power. Programmable resistive memory such as phase change memory is an example of nonvolatile memory. A high current reset electrical pulse melts and quenches the programmable resistive element into an amorphous state, raising the resistance of the programmable resistive element. A low current set electrical pulse crystallizes and lowers the resistance of the programmable resistive element.
Although the reset electrical pulse requires a high current, the structure of a programmable resistive RAM cell is a factor limiting the amount of current flowing through the programmable resistive element of the cell. The physical positioning of the contacts on either end of the programmable resistive element, requires the high current reset pulse to flow through an end of the programmable resistive element with a relatively small physical cross-section. Accordingly, it would be desirable if the high current reset pulse could flow through a larger physical area to reach the programmable resistive RAM cell.
One aspect of the technology is an integrated circuit with nonvolatile memory cells, so that diode structures are formed adjacent to the programmable resistive elements of the nonvolatile memory cells. The circuit includes conductive columns, conductive rows, a nonconductive layer separating the conductive columns from the diode structures, the diode structures, and the programmable restive elements.
The conductive rows and columns are conductively coupled to the nonvolatile memory cells. They correspond typically to bit lines and word lines.
In some embodiments, the conductive rows are typically arranged in parallel, as are the conductive columns. The conductive rows and columns each define a planar orientation, parallel with each other.
The diode structures connect the programmable resistive elements with the conductive rows. Each of the diode structures includes a first terminal and a second terminal.
In some embodiments, the first terminal of each diode structure has an exterior surface, and an interior surface connected to at least one of the programmable resistive elements. In some embodiments, the second terminal of each diode structure is in contact with a junction area on the exterior surface of the first terminal providing a diode junction oriented orthogonal to the planar orientations of the conductive rows and columns.
In some embodiments, the first terminal of each diode structure has an annular shape with an exterior surface, and an interior surface surrounding at least one of the programmable resistive elements. In some embodiments, the second terminal of each diode structure is in contact with the exterior surface of the first terminal.
In some embodiments, the first terminals physically separate the programmable resistive elements and the second terminals.
In some embodiments, the programmable resistive elements each have a sidewall surface connected to the interior surface of the first terminal of at least one of the diode structures, and a bottom surface conductively coupled to at least one of the conductive columns.
The programmable resistive elements each have a sidewall surface surrounded by the interior surface of the first terminal of at least one of the diode structures, and a bottom surface conductively coupled to at least one of the conductive columns.
In some embodiments, the programmable resistive elements each have a top surface having a smaller area than the sidewall surface. In some embodiments, the programmable resistive elements include at least a chalcogenide.
In some embodiments of the diode structures, a self-aligned silicide is formed over the second terminals to form the second terminals. In some embodiments the conductive rows are formed along the diode structures, such as with conductive spacers adjacent to the second terminals of the diode structures. In various embodiments, the bit lines and word lines correspond to the self-aligned silicide or the conductive spacers, or if material corresponding to the self-aligned silicide or the conductive spacers is absent, then to conductive traces that connect the circuit to the remaining circuitry.
In some embodiments, the second terminal and the first terminal are arranged, so that in response to a forward bias on a particular one of the diode structures, a driving current flows through: at least one of the conductive rows conductively coupled to the particular one of the diode structures, the particular one of the diode structures, a programmable resistive element of the programmable resistive elements conductively connected to the particular one of the diode structures, and at least one of the conductive columns conductively coupled to the programmable resistive element. In many embodiments, the first and second terminals of the diode structures have opposite doping types.
The highly controllable process is an advantage of several embodiments. In some embodiments, each nonvolatile memory cell formed by the method has a size of no more than 5 F^2, whereby F is a minimum feature size of a lithographic process used in manufacture of the method. In some embodiments, the diode structures include a sample quantity of diode structures. The first terminals of the sample quantity have a size variation of at least about 4 nm. The programmable resistive elements of the sample quantity have a second size variation of less than about 2 nm, demonstrating the process control over the programmable resistive elements despite a lack of corresponding process control over the first terminals. More generally, in another embodiment, the size variation of the programmable resistive elements of the sample quantity is less than the size variation of the first terminals of the sample quantity. An exemplary choice of the sample quantity of diode structures includes diode structures on different sides of the array of nonvolatile memory cells.
Another aspect of the technology is a method of forming the integrated circuit as described.
In many embodiments, the first terminals are formed after the second terminals. In some embodiments, the second terminals are formed as follows. A layer of the second terminals is formed over the conductive columns, and cavities are formed in the layer of the second terminals by removing material from the layer of the second terminals. Later steps such as forming the first terminals and forming the programmable resistive elements occur at least partly in the cavities of the layer of the second terminals. A further embodiment adds the following, before the first terminals are formed. After the layer of the second terminals is formed, an oxide layer is formed over the layer of the second terminals; and an undercut is formed in the cavities of the layer of the second terminals and the oxide layer, by laterally removing more material from the layer of the second terminals than from the oxide layer. In an embodiment this undercut determines the sizes of the programmable resistive elements.
In many embodiments, the first terminals are formed as follows. A layer of the first terminals is formed over the second terminals. In some embodiments at least part of the layer of the first terminals positioned outside the cavities of the second terminals is removed. In some embodiments the layer of the first terminals at least partly fills cavities of the second terminals. In some embodiments, after the conductive columns are formed, an oxide layer covering the conductive columns is formed, and optionally part of the layer of the first terminals and part of the oxide layer are removed to leave cavities in which to form programmable resistive elements.
Other aspect of the technology is an integrated circuit with multiple nonvolatile memory cells, or one nonvolatile memory cell, as disclosed herein.
Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
Various embodiments are directed at a manufacturing method for memory, such as nonvolatile embedded memory implementing programmable resistance RAM. Examples of programmable resistance device RAM are resistance memory (RRAM), polymer memory, and phase change memory (PCRAM). The programmable resistive elements are formed to have a cross-section small than the cross-section of the upper portion of the interlayer contacts of programmable resistance RAM.
Embodiments of the memory cell include phase change based memory materials, including chalcogenide based materials and other materials, for the resistive elements 52 and 54. Chalcogens include any of the four elements oxygen (O), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te), forming part of group VI of the periodic table. Chalcogenides comprise compounds of a chalcogen with a more electropositive element or radical. Chalcogenide alloys comprise combinations of chalcogenides with other materials such as transition metals. A chalcogenide alloy usually contains one or more elements from column six of the periodic table of elements, such as germanium (Ge) and tin (Sn). Often, chalcogenide alloys include combinations including one or more of antimony (Sb), gallium (Ga), indium (In), and silver (Ag). Many phase change based memory materials have been described in technical literature, including alloys of: Ga/Sb, In/Sb, In/Se, Sb/Te, Ge/Te, Ge/Sb/Te, In/Sb/Te, Ga/Se/Te, Sn/Sb/Te, In/Sb/Ge, Ag/In/Sb/Te, Ge/Sn/Sb/Te, Ge/Sb/Se/Te and Te/Ge/Sb/S. In the family of Ge/Sb/Te alloys, a wide range of alloy compositions may be workable. The compositions can be characterized as TeaGebSb100−(a+b). One researcher has described the most useful alloys as having an average concentration of Te in the deposited materials well below 70%, typically below about 60% and ranged in general from as low as about 23% up to about 58% Te and most preferably about 48% to 58% Te. Concentrations of Ge were above about 5% and ranged from a low of about 8% to about 30% average in the material, remaining generally below 50%. Most preferably, concentrations of Ge ranged from about 8% to about 40%. The remainder of the principal constituent elements in this composition was Sb. These percentages are atomic percentages that total 100% of the atoms of the constituent elements. (Ovshinsky U.S. Pat. No. 5,687,112, cols 10-11.) Particular alloys evaluated by another researcher include Ge2Sb2Te5, GeSb2Te4 and GeSb4Te7 (Noboru Yamada, “Potential of Ge—Sb—Te Phase-Change Optical Disks for High-Data-Rate Recording”, SPIE v.3109, pp. 28-37 (1997).) More generally, a transition metal such as chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), niobium (Nb), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt) and mixtures or alloys thereof may be combined with Ge/Sb/Te to form a phase change alloy that has programmable resistive properties. Specific examples of memory materials that may be useful are given in Ovshinsky '112 at columns 11-13, which examples are hereby incorporated by reference.
Chalcogenides and other phase change materials are doped with impurities in some embodiments to modify conductivity, transition temperature, melting temperature, and other properties of memory elements using the doped chalcogenides. Representative impurities used for doping chalcogenides include nitrogen, silicon, oxygen, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, copper, silver, gold, aluminum, aluminum oxide, tantalum, tantalum oxide, tantalum nitride, titanium and titanium oxide. See, e.g. U.S. Pat. No. 6,800,504, and U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US 2005/0029502.
Phase change alloys are capable of being switched between a first structural state in which the material is in a generally amorphous solid phase, and a second structural state in which the material is in a generally crystalline solid phase in its local order in the active channel region of the cell. These alloys are at least bistable. The term amorphous is used to refer to a relatively less ordered structure, more disordered than a single crystal, which has the detectable characteristics such as higher electrical resistivity than the crystalline phase. The term crystalline is used to refer to a relatively more ordered structure, more ordered than in an amorphous structure, which has detectable characteristics such as lower electrical resistivity than the amorphous phase. Typically, phase change materials may be electrically switched between different detectable states of local order across the spectrum between completely amorphous and completely crystalline states. Other material characteristics affected by the change between amorphous and crystalline phases include atomic order, free electron density and activation energy. The material may be switched either into different solid phases or into mixtures of two or more solid phases, providing a gray scale between completely amorphous and completely crystalline states. The electrical properties in the material may vary accordingly.
Phase change alloys can be changed from one phase state to another by application of electrical pulses. It has been observed that a shorter, higher amplitude pulse tends to change the phase change material to a generally amorphous state. A longer, lower amplitude pulse tends to change the phase change material to a generally crystalline state. The energy in a shorter, higher amplitude pulse is high enough to allow for bonds of the crystalline structure to be broken and short enough to prevent the atoms from realigning into a crystalline state. Appropriate profiles for pulses can be determined, without undue experimentation, specifically adapted to a particular phase change alloy. In following sections of the disclosure, the phase change material is referred to as GST, and it will be understood that other types of phase change materials can be used. A material useful for implementation of a PCRAM described herein is Ge2Sb2Te5.
Other programmable resistive memory materials may be used in other embodiments of the invention, including N2 doped GST, GexSby, or other material that uses different crystal phase changes to determine resistance; PrxCayMnO3, PrxSryMnO3, ZrOx, or other material that uses an electrical pulse to change the resistance state; 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), methanofullerene 6,6-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), TCNQ-PCBM, Cu-TCNQ, Ag-TCNQ, C60-TCNQ, TCNQ doped with other metal, or any other polymer material that has bistable or multi-stable resistance state controlled by an electrical pulse.
The following are short summaries describing four types of resistive memory materials. The first type is chalcogenide material, such as GexSbyTez where x:y:z=2:2:5, or other compositions with x: 0˜5; y: 0˜5; z: 0˜10. GeSbTe with doping, such as N—, Si—, Ti—, or other element doping is alternatively used.
An exemplary method for forming chalcogenide material uses PVD-sputtering or magnetron-sputtering method with source gas(es) of Ar, N2, and/or He, etc. at the pressure of 1 mTorr˜100 mTorr. The deposition is usually done at room temperature. A collimater with an aspect ratio of 1˜5 can be used to improve the fill-in performance. To improve the fill-in performance, a DC bias of several tens of volts to several hundreds of volts is also used. On the other hand, the combination of DC bias and the collimater can be used simultaneously.
A post-deposition annealing treatment in vacuum or in an N2 ambient is optionally performed to improve the crystallize state of chalcogenide material. The annealing temperature typically ranges from 100° C. to 400° C. with an anneal time of less than 30 minutes.
The thickness of chalcogenide material depends on the design of cell structure. In general, a chalcogenide material with thickness of higher than 8 nm can have a phase change characterization so that the material exhibits at least two stable resistance states.
A second type of memory material suitable for use in embodiments is colossal magnetoresistance (“CMR”) material, such as PrxCayMnO3 where x=0.5:0.5, or other compositions with x: 0˜1; y: 0˜1. CMR material that includes Mn oxide is alternatively used.
An exemplary method for forming CMR material uses PVD sputtering or magnetron-sputtering method with source gases of Ar, N2, O2, and/or He, etc. at the pressure of 1 mTorr 100 mTorr. The deposition temperature can range from room temperature to 600° C., depending on the post deposition treatment condition. A collimater with an aspect ratio of 1˜5 can be used to improve the fill-in performance. To improve the fill-in performance, the DC bias of several tens of volts to several hundreds of volts is also used. On the other hand, the combination of DC bias and the collimater can be used simultaneously. A magnetic field of several tens of Gauss to as much as a Tesla (10,000 Gauss) may be applied to improve the magnetic crystallized phase.
A post-deposition annealing treatment in vacuum or in an N2 ambient or O2/N2 mixed ambient is optionally used to improve the crystallized state of CMR material. The annealing temperature typically ranges from 400° C. to 600° C. with an anneal time of less than 2 hours.
The thickness of CMR material depends on the design of the cell structure. The CMR thickness of 10 nm to 200 nm can be used for the core material. A buffer layer of YBCO (YBaCuO3, which is a type of high temperature superconductor material) is often used to improve the crystallized state of CMR material. The YBCO is deposited before the deposition of CMR material. The thickness of YBCO ranges from 30 nm to 200 nm.
A third type of memory material is two-element compounds, such as NixOy; TixOy; AlxOy; WxOy; ZnxOy; ZrxOy; CuxOy; etc, where x:y=0.5:0.5, or other compositions with x: 0˜1; y: 0˜1. An exemplary formation method uses a PVD sputtering or magnetron-sputtering method with reactive gases of Ar, N2, O2, and/or He, etc. at the pressure of 1 mTorr˜100 mTorr, using a target of metal oxide, such as NixOy; TixOy; AlxOy; WxOy; ZnxOy; ZrxOy; CuxOy; etc. The deposition is usually done at room temperature. A collimater with an aspect ratio of 1˜5 can be used to improve the fill-in performance. To improve the fill-in performance, the DC bias of several tens of volts to several hundreds of volts is also used. If desired, the combination of DC bias and the collimater can be used simultaneously.
A post-deposition annealing treatment in vacuum or in an N2 ambient or O2/N2 mixed ambient is optionally performed to improve the oxygen distribution of metal oxide. The annealing temperature ranges from 400° C. to 600° C. with an anneal time of less than 2 hours.
An alternative formation method uses a PVD sputtering or magnetron-sputtering method with reactive gases of Ar/O2, Ar/N2/O2, pure O2, He/O2, He/N2/O2 etc. at the pressure of 1 mTorr˜100 mTorr, using a target of metal oxide, such as Ni, Ti, Al, W, Zn, Zr, or Cu etc. The deposition is usually done at room temperature. A collimater with an aspect ratio of 1˜5 can be used to improve the fill-in performance. To improve the fill-in performance, a DC bias of several tens of volts to several hundreds of volts is also used. If desired, the combination of DC bias and the collimater can be used simultaneously.
A post-deposition annealing treatment in vacuum or in an N2 ambient or O2/N2 mixed ambient is optionally performed to improve the oxygen distribution of metal oxide. The annealing temperature ranges from 400° C. to 600° C. with an anneal time of less than 2 hours.
Yet another formation method uses oxidation by a high temperature oxidation system, such as a furnace or a rapid thermal pulse (“RTP”) system. The temperature ranges from 200° C. to 700° C. with pure O2 or N2/O2 mixed gas at a pressure of several mTorr to 1 atm. The time can range several minute to hours. Another oxidation method is plasma oxidation. An RF or a DC source plasma with pure O2 or Ar/O2 mixed gas or Ar/N2/O2 mixed gas at a pressure of 1 mTorr to 100 mTorr is used to oxidize the surface of metal, such as Ni, Ti, Al, W, Zn, Zr, or Cu etc. The oxidation time ranges several seconds to several minutes. The oxidation temperature ranges from room temperature to 300° C., depending on the degree of plasma oxidation.
A fourth type of memory material is a polymer material, such as TCNQ with doping of Cu, C60, Ag etc. or PCBM-TCNQ mixed polymer. One formation method uses evaporation by thermal evaporation, e-beam evaporation, or molecular beam epitaxy (“MBE”) system. A solid-state TCNQ and dopant pellets are co-evaporated in a single chamber. The solid-state TCNQ and dopant pellets are put in a W-boat or a Ta-boat or a ceramic boat. A high electrical current or an electron-beam is applied to melt the source so that the materials are mixed and deposited on wafers. There are no reactive chemistries or gases. The deposition is done at a pressure of 10−4 Torr to 10−10 Torr. The wafer temperature ranges from room temperature to 200° C.
A post-deposition annealing treatment in vacuum or in an N2 ambient is optionally performed to improve the composition distribution of polymer material. The annealing temperature ranges from room temperature to 300° C. with an anneal time of less than 1 hour.
Another technique for forming a layer of polymer-based memory material is to use a spin-coater with doped-TCNQ solution at a rotation of less than 1000 rpm. After spin-coating, the wafer held (typically at room temperature or temperature less than 200° C.) for a time sufficient for solid-state formation. The hold time ranges from several minutes to days, depending on the temperature and on the formation conditions.
In response to a forward bias on a particular one of the diode structures (each including word line-shaped n-type silicon material 30 and a p-type silicon spacer 40), a driving current flows through: at least one of the conductive columns 11/12 conductively coupled to a programmable resistive element 60, the programmable resistive element 60 conductively connected to the particular one of the diode structures, the particular one of the diode structures (each including word line-shaped n-type silicon material 30 and a p-type silicon spacer 40), and then at least one of the conductive rows 80 conductively coupled to the particular one of the diode structures. In another embodiment where the p-type and n-type material of the diode structures is exchanged, the current path is reversed.
The integrated circuit 150 includes a memory array 100 implemented using memory cells with resistive elements on a semiconductor substrate. The programmable resistive cells are separated by semiconductor diode structures as described herein. A sample quantity of memory cells of the array 100 (such as on different sides of the array 100) has a size variation of the programmable resistive elements 60 less than a size variation of the diode first terminals 40, because of the highly controllable programmable resistive element sizes, as discussed in connection with
Addresses are supplied on bus 105 to column decoder 103 and row decoder 101. Sense amplifiers and data-in structures in block 106 are coupled to the column decoder 103 via data bus 107. Data is supplied via the data-in line 111 from input/output ports on the integrated circuit 150, or from other data sources internal or external to the integrated circuit 150, to the data-in structures in block 106. Data is supplied via the data-out line 115 from the block 106 to input/output ports on the integrated circuit 150, or to other data destinations internal or external to the integrated circuit 150. The integrated circuit 150 may also include circuitry directed a mission function other than the nonvolatile storage with resistive elements (not shown). Bias arrangement state machine 109 controls the application of bias arrangement supply voltages.
In some embodiments, the bit lines and word lines correspond to the bit lines 104 leading to the column decoder 103 and to the word lines 102 leading to the row decoder 101.
Some embodiments the memory array 100 include millions of cells covers a relatively large area on a device, over which the lithographically formed vias will vary in size over a range ΔV, where V represents the nominal size of the via. Therefore, if one samples a first memory cell in a first sector of the array, and compares that cell with a second memory cell in a second sector of the array, it is likely that the via used for formation of the memory element will differ by as much as ΔV. However, the width of the surface of the bottom electrode in contact with the memory element, in embodiments of the present invention will vary by at most 2ΔO, where O represents the nominal size of the overhang characterizing the undercut process of
For example, using a lithographic process having a 90 nm feature size, varying by 5% across the array, the width V of a memory element varies by about 4.5 nm across an array. The overhang dimension O determined by the undercut etch process or by the overhang growth process, may also vary across an array by 5%. In order to make a 40 nm CD, the overhang dimension O should be 20 nm. If the process creating the overhang results in a variation of 5%, then the overhang dimension O could vary by 1 nm on each side. This would result in a variation in CD of 2 nm for the nominally 40 nm hole across an array, or 5%. This 2 nm variation is substantially less than the variation in the lithographic dimension. In contrast, prior art sidewall spacer techniques that do not compensate for lithographic variations would result in a 4.5 nm variation across the array for the nominally 40 nm via, or 11.25%. The self-converging process described herein substantially narrows the distribution of CD across the array.
Thus, for an illustrative example in which the dimension V is assumed to vary across the specified range of about 5% for nominally V=90 nm and the dimension CD is assumed to vary across a range of about 5% for nominally CD=40 nm, the first cell may have a width of dimension V of about 92 nm and a dimension CD of about 39 nm, while the second cell may have a width of dimension V of about 88 nm, and a dimension CD of about 41 nm. Thus, a structure results in which the width of the memory element in the first cell as measured varies from width of the memory element in the second cell by 4/92, or 4.3% of the width V, in the example illustrated. However, the width of the critical dimension in the first cell varies from that in the second cell by 2/92, or 2.2% of the width V. Therefore the critical dimensions of the sampled memory cells vary by less than the variations in the width of the memory elements in a way not possible in the prior art.
Terms describe positions of layers with respect to each other are relative unless otherwise specified. For example, a layer “covers” another layer or is “above” another layer, even in the presence of a layer (e.g., between the covering layer and the covered layer, or between the “above” layer and the “below” layer. A layer is “between” two other layers, regardless of any layers on either side.
While the present invention is disclosed by reference to the preferred embodiments and examples detailed above, it is to be understood that these examples are intended in an illustrative rather than in a limiting sense. It is contemplated that modifications and combinations will readily occur to those skilled in the art, which modifications and combinations will be within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the following claims.
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