SESSION TA 7
SALON 1-6, Tues, 8
8:30 AM


TECHNOLOGY DIRECTIONS:
EMERGING MEMORY AND DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES

Chair: B. Martino, Motorola, Austin, TX
Associate Chair: K. Ishibashi, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji, Japan


7.1 Millipede - A Highly-Parallel Dense Scanning-Probe- Based Data-Storage System
8:30 AM
M. Lutwyche, G. Cross, M. Despont, U. Drechsler, U. Dürig,
W. Häberle, H. Rothuizen, R. Stutz, R. Widmer, G. Binnig, P. Vettiger
IBM Zurich Research Lab, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

An alternative approach to magnetic hard-disk drives uses a 32x32 array of scanning probe microscopes to store data as indents in a poly-methylmethacrylate medium. Parallel read/write results show 200Gb/in 2.


7.2 A 10ns Read and Write Non-Volatile Memory Array using a Magnetic Tunnel Junction and FET Switch in Each Cell
9:00 AM
R. Scheuerlein, W. Gallagher 1, S. Parkin, A. Lee, S. Ray,
R. Robertazzi 1, W. Reohr 1
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
1IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

1kb memory arrays use a magnetic tunnel junction and FET in each cell and current-mode read and write for 10ns performance. Read and write power are 5mW and 40mW, respectively. Cell area is 3.07 um2 in 0.25 um CMOS.


7.3 Nonvolatile RAM based on Magnetic Tunnel Junction Elements
9:30 AM
M. Durlam, P. Naji, M. DeHerrera, S. Tehrani, G. Kerszykowski,
K. Kyler
Motorola Labs, Tempe, AZ

Magnetoresistive elements are integrated with CMOS, exhibiting unlimited nonvolatility and unlimited R/W endurance. Magnetic tunnel junction switching for 0.9x1.5 um2 devices is demonstrated.

BREAK 10:00 AM

7.4 Phase-State Low-Electron-Number-Drive Random-Access Memory (PLEDM)
10:15 AM
K. Nakazato, K. Itoh 1, H. Ahmed 2, H. Mizuta, T. Kisu 3, M. Kato 4,
T. Sakata 1
Hitachi Cambridge Lab, Cambridge, UK
1Hitachi Central Research Lab, Tokyo, Japan
2Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, UK
3Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Tokyo, Japan
4Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

A phase-state low-electron-number-drive memory (PLEDM) uses a stacked tunnel transistor with 5F 2 cell. Simulated read and write times are 20 and 2ns, respectively. Retention times longer than 10 years are possible.


7.5 A Vertical Replacement-Gate (VRG) Process for Scalable General-Purpose Complementary Logic
10:45 AM
D. Monroe, J. Hergenrother
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ

A process for vertical MOSFETs has precise gate length below 50nm with current lithography, gate oxide grown on a single-crystal silicon channel, and shallow self-aligned source/drain extensions. This CMOS process has density comparable to that of planar CMOS, 2x the drive current, and modest parasitics.

CONCLUSION 11:15 AM