A Ta2O5 solid-electrolyte switch with improved reliability

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作者
Sakamoto, Toshitsugu [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Banno, Naoki [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Iguchi, Noriyuki [2 ]
Kawaura, Hisao [2 ]
Sunamura, Hiroshi [1 ]
Fujieda, Shinji [1 ]
Terabe, Kazuya [3 ,4 ]
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi [3 ,4 ]
Aono, Masakazu [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] NEC Corp Ltd, Syst Devices Res Labs, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2291198, Japan
[2] NEC Corp Ltd, Fundamental & Environm Res Labs, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058501, Japan
[3] Japan Sci & Technol Agcy JST, ICORP, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050003, Japan
[4] Natl Inst Mat Sci, Nanomat Lab, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050003, Japan
来源
2007 SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI TECHNOLOGY, DIGEST OF TECHNICAL PAPERS | 2007年
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10.1109/VLSIT.2007.4339718
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present a novel solid-electrolyte switch ("NanoBridge") promising for application to field programmable gate array (FPGA). We replace a former solid electrolyte of Cu2S with Ta2O5, which has a Siprocess compatibility,. As a result; we successfully control the turn-on voltage to adapt to CMOS operation. The Ta2O5-NanoBridge exhibits a high reliability of cycling endurance (> 10(4)) and a stability against EM (> 10years at 2.6mA at RT). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the conducting path of the switch is a Cu precipitate with 30nm in diameter, which possibly enables to scale down the switch.
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