Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI)
Vol 7, No 2: June 2019

Reliability of graphene as charge storage layer in floating gate flash memory

M. Hilman Ahmad (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
N Ezaila Alias (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Afiq Hamzah (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Zaharah Johari (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
M. S. Z. Abidin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Norlina Paraman (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
M. L. Peng Tan (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Razali Ismail (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jun 2019

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the memory performances of graphene as a charge storage layer in the floating gate with difference doping concentration of n-channel and p-channel substrates using Silvaco ATLAS TCAD Tools. The simulation work has been done to determine the performance of flash memory in terms of memory window, P/E characteristics and data retention and have been validated with the experimental work done by other researchers. From the simulation data, the trend of memory window at low P/E voltage is nearly overlapped between simulation and experimental data. The memory window at ±20V P/E voltage for n-channel and p-channel flash memory cell are 15.4V and 15.6V respectively. The data retention for the n-channel flash memory cell is retained by 75% (from 15.4V to 11.6V) whereas for the p-channel flash memory cell is retained by 80% (from 15.6V to 12.5V) after 10 years of extrapolation with -1/1V gate stress which shows that p-channel flash memory cell demonstrates better data retention compared to n-channel flash memory cell.

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Journal Info

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IJEEI

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Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is a peer reviewed International Journal in English published four issues per year (March, June, September and December). The aim of Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI) is to publish high-quality ...