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Guru3D.com » News » Kioxia Develops New 3D Semicircular Flash Memory Cell, and calls it Twin BiCS FLASH

Kioxia Develops New 3D Semicircular Flash Memory Cell, and calls it Twin BiCS FLASH

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/17/2019 06:23 PM | source: PC Watch | 2 comment(s)
Kioxia Develops New 3D Semicircular Flash Memory Cell, and calls it Twin BiCS FLASH

So, I had to read the press-release twice before it started making sense. But what will succeed QLC written NAND? I mean, four Bits per cell is pushing it. PLC with 5-bits might become too complex. 

Well, Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory, has developed a new memory structure for NAND offering an even higher density than QLC. Twin BiCS Flash basically cuts a memory cell in half, for higher capacity. Before I show you the press release, basically for Twin BiCS FLASH the memory density is doubled by dividing the memory cell word line in half. In the screengrab below on the left is the concept. On the right are the prototype cell structure and cross-sectional observation image.

 

 

Basically Kioxia is doubling the in the end volume sizes for storage. Of course, that will pose new problems like endurance and at cell level, very complex voltages. But yeah, manufacturers are in an extensive race to gain more from NAND with the same. Twin BiCS technology will not be available anytime soon, but it is another step in that cutthroat NAND arena. Also, we already talked about PLC (5-bits per cell), as some announcements have been made earlier. But clearly Kioxia probably deems is a bit too much, pardon the pun.

TOKYO - Kioxia Corporation today announced the development of the world’s first three-dimensional (3D) semicircular split-gate flash memory cell structure “Twin BiCS FLASH” using specially designed semicircular Floating Gate (FG) cells. Twin BiCS FLASH achieves superior program slope and a larger program/erase window at a much smaller cell size compared to conventional circular Charge Trap (CT) cells. These attributes make this new cell design a promising candidate to surpass four bits per cell (QLC) for significantly higher memory density and fewer stacking layers. This technology was announced at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held in San Francisco, CA on December 11th.

3D flash memory technology has achieved high bit density with low cost per bit by increasing the number of cell stacked layers as well as by implementing multilayer stack deposition and high aspect ratio etching. In recent years, as the number of cell layers exceeds 100, managing the trade-offs among etch profile control, size uniformity and productivity is becoming increasingly challenging. To overcome this problem, Kioxia developed a new semicircular cell design by splitting the gate electrode in the conventional circular cell to reduce cell size compared to the conventional circular cell, enabling higher-density memory at a lower number of cell layers.

The circular control gate provides a larger program window with relaxed saturation problems when compared with a planar gate because of the curvature effect, where carrier injection through the tunnel dielectric is enhanced while electron leakage to the block (BLK) dielectric is lowered. In this split-gate cell design, the circular control gate is symmetrically divided into two semicircular gates to take advantage of the strong improvement in the program/erase dynamics. As shown in Fig. 1, the conductive storage layer is employed for high charge trapping efficiency in conjunction with the high-k BLK dielectrics, achieving high coupling ratio to gain program window as well as reduced electron leakage from the FG, thus relieving the saturation issue. The experimental program/erase characteristics in Fig. 2 reveal that the semicircular FG cells with the high-k-based BLK exhibit significant gains in the program slope and program/erase window over the larger-sized circular CT cells. The semicircular FG cells, having superior program/erase characteristics, are expected to attain comparably tight QLC Vt distributions at small cell size. Further, integration of low-trap Si channel makes possible more than four bits/cell, e.g., Penta-Level Cell (PLC) as shown in Fig. 3. These results confirm that semicircular FG cells are a viable option to pursue higher bit density.

Going forward, Kioxia’s research and development efforts aimed at innovation in flash memory will include continuing Twin BiCS FLASH development and seeking its practical applications. At IEDM 2019, Kioxia also announced six other papers highlighting the company’s intensive R&D activities in the area of flash memory.



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ladcrooks
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#5742398 Posted on: 12/17/2019 08:33 PM
over my head but will the increase in density cause higher temps if we carry on down this road ?

Reddoguk
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#5742430 Posted on: 12/17/2019 09:38 PM
Temps won't be the issue, the issue is like all SSDs in Wear. If you lose a single bit in a 5 bits cell then you lose all 5 bits. So the higher the density the larger the loss when errors start to happen. Prices will be lower but warranties will be way smaller or they will need to have 50% more redundant cells just to cover a 5 year warranty.

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