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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2011
Donald S Bethune, San Jose, CA (US);
Kailash Gopalakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew J Kellock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit S Shenoy, Fremont, CA (US);
Kumar R Virwani, San Jose, CA (US);
Donald S Bethune, San Jose, CA (US);
Kailash Gopalakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew J Kellock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit S Shenoy, Fremont, CA (US);
Kumar R Virwani, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A crystalline semiconductor Schottky barrier-like diode sandwiched between two conducting electrodes is in series with a memory element, a word line and a bit line, wherein the setup provides voltage margins greater than 1V and current densities greater than 5×10A/cm. This Schottky barrier-like diode can be fabricated under conditions compatible with low-temperature BEOL semiconductor processing, can supply high currents at low voltages, exhibits high on-off ratios, and enables large memory arrays.