• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.26-34
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• 2002

A dynamically-allocated topographical model, so-called cell advancing model, has been developed modifying the cell model. Memory requirements are reduced by dynamically allocating completed topography and material information only at surface cells, and setting other cells as a material index. In this paper, this model is presented and verified with applications to etching process by using the analytic model and Monte Carlo model for the incident ion flux, deposition process, and process integration. In case of DRAM cell fabrication process with 5,440,500(130$\times$155$\times$270) cells takes about 22MB memory to represent the topography.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.833-837
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• 2012

This paper proposes a DRAM data retention time enhancement method that minimizes silicon loss and undercut at STI sidewall by reducing the SC1 (Standard Cleaning) time. SC1 time optimization debilitates the parasitic electric field in STI's top corner, which reduces an inverse narrow width effect to result in reduction of channel doping density without increasing the subthreshold leakage of cell Tr. Moreover, it minimizes the electric field in depletion area from cell junction to P-well, increasing yield or data retention time.