Manipulation of periodic Coulomb blockade oscillations in ultra-scaled memories by single electron charging of silicon nanocrystal floating gates

作者: G. Molas , X. Jehl , M. Sanquer , B. DeSalvo , D. Lafond

DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2005.846898

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摘要: Ultra-scaled silicon nanocrystal memories fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator substrate exhibit very periodic Coulomb blockade oscillations at 4.2 K. We control the phase of those by charging and discharging floating gate with single electron. can distinguish between resonances due to whole channel area covered impurity levels localized in access regions less coupled gate. Comparison reference device without nanocrystals is also reported.

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