Scaling down of cobalt quantum-dots by colloidal route for non-volatile memory device application

Manoj Yadav; Ravi Shankar R. Velampati; Debaprasad Mandal

Scaling down of cobalt quantum-dots by colloidal route for non-volatile memory device application

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Author(s): Manoj Yadav^{1, 2} ; Ravi Shankar R. Velampati³ ; Debaprasad Mandal⁴
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Electrical Engineering , Indian Institute of Technology Ropar , Punjab 140001 , India ;
  2: Department of Electronics Engineering , National Chiao Tung University , Hsinchu 30010 , Taiwan ;
  3: Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Department of Space , Government of India , S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab 160071 , India ;
  4: Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology Ropar , Punjab 140001 , India
Source: Volume 14, Issue 12, 23 October 2019, p. 1274 – 1277
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2019.0148 , Online ISSN 1750-0443

Received 11/03/2019, Accepted 19/08/2019, Revised 04/08/2019, Published 23/10/2019

The present work details the synthesis of cobalt quantum-dots (Co QDs) with size downscaling to 1–2 nm and their applications in non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. The process of colloidal synthesis is simple and provides the control over a wide range of QDs size. The scaled-down colloidal Co QDs are applied for the NVM device fabrication. Colloidal synthesised Co QDs are spin-coated over silicon dioxide wafer for the fabrication of floating-gate NVM devices. Capacitance–voltage (C–V) and capacitance–time (C–t) measurements of the fabricated NVM device indicate a low voltage operation of device. A sweep voltages as small as 1.2–4 V lead to a flat band voltage shift of 0.35–1.5 V, evidencing the low operating voltage and low power NVM applications. Further, retention characteristics show a robust retention by fabricated NVM device. In addition, C–V measurements are done for the several samples in order to study the process repeatability. The work also is compared with the other processes for the floating gate memory device.

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