Background
Ferroelectric materials have wide applications in the field of microelectronics manufacturing and memory technology. In the prior art, ferroelectric materials are mostly used for ferroelectric memories, in the integration architecture of the traditional ferroelectric memory, a transistor and a ferroelectric capacitor (1T1C) are required to be integrated, the ferroelectric memory in the structure of 1T1C stores information based on the charge change of the capacitor, the unit area is too large to be beneficial to high-density integration, and destructive reading is performed. Therefore, a ferroelectric memory having a smaller device area and a higher memory density is needed.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing a programmable diode and a ferroelectric memory, so as to partially solve at least one of the above technical problems.
In order to achieve the above object, as an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for manufacturing a programmable diode, including the steps of:
forming a tungsten plug by adopting a standard CMOS process;
taking the tungsten plug as a lower electrode, and depositing a functional layer material such as a ferroelectric film on the tungsten plug;
depositing an upper electrode on the functional layer material;
and patterning the upper electrode and the functional layer to finish the preparation of the programmable diode.
The forming of the tungsten plug by using the CMOS process specifically includes:
forming a tungsten plug hole above the MOS device by photoetching and etching;
depositing a diffusion barrier layer Ti/TiN with the thickness range of 3 nm-50 nm;
filling the holes with tungsten by adopting plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, wherein the thickness of the tungsten is 50-5000 nm;
and forming a tungsten plug through chemical mechanical polishing, wherein the diameter of the tungsten plug is 20 nm-90 nm.
The ferroelectric film is prepared by one of the processes of electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition or sputtering.
Wherein the upper electrode is made of W, Ru, Al, Ti and conductive metal compounds of TiN, TaN and IrO2、ITO、IZO。
The upper electrode is prepared by one of the processes of electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition or sputtering.
Wherein the thickness range of the upper electrode is 5 nm-200 nm.
As another aspect of the invention, the invention also provides the programmable diode prepared by the preparation method.
As a further aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a ferroelectric memory comprising a programmable diode and a transistor as described above.
Based on the above technical solution, the method for manufacturing the programmable diode and the ferroelectric memory of the present invention have at least one or a part of the following advantages compared with the prior art:
(1) the preparation method of the programmable diode provided by the invention does not need to grow a lower electrode, thereby reducing the complexity of the process;
(2) the ferroelectric memory provided by the invention is composed of a transistor and a programmable diode, and the design stores information according to different polarities of the diode, so that the area of the device can be further reduced, and the storage density can be improved.
Detailed Description
The invention discloses a preparation method of a programmable diode, which comprises the following steps:
forming a tungsten plug by adopting a standard CMOS process;
taking the tungsten plug as a lower electrode, and depositing a functional layer material such as a ferroelectric film on the tungsten plug;
depositing an upper electrode on the functional layer material;
and patterning the upper electrode and the functional layer to finish the preparation of the programmable diode.
The forming of the tungsten plug by using the CMOS process specifically includes:
forming a tungsten plug hole above the MOS device by photoetching and etching;
depositing a diffusion barrier layer Ti/TiN with the thickness range of 3 nm-50 nm;
filling the holes with tungsten by adopting plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, wherein the thickness of the tungsten is 50-5000 nm;
and forming a tungsten plug through chemical mechanical polishing, wherein the diameter of the tungsten plug is 20 nm-90 nm.
The ferroelectric film is prepared by one of the processes of electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition or sputtering. The upper electrode is made of W, Ru, Al, Ti and conductive metal compounds TiN, TaN and IrO2ITO, IZO. The upper electrode is prepared by one of the processes of electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition or sputtering.
Wherein the thickness range of the upper electrode is 5 nm-200 nm.
In order that the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with the following specific embodiments.
Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for manufacturing a programmable diode; the method specifically comprises the following steps:
s11: forming a tungsten plug by adopting a standard CMOS process;
as shown in fig. 2, step S1 specifically includes forming a tungsten plug hole above the MOS device by photolithography and etching;
depositing a diffusion barrier layer Ti/TiN with the thickness range of 3 nm-50 nm;
filling the holes with tungsten by adopting Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD), wherein the thickness of the tungsten is 50-5000 nm;
and forming a tungsten plug 21 through chemical mechanical polishing, wherein the diameter of the tungsten plug 21 is 20 nm-90 nm.
Wherein, a part of fig. 2 shows a cross-sectional view after the conventional CMOS process is performed to the end of the tungsten plug 21. The subsequent process steps are performed on the upper surface of tungsten plug 21 as shown in part b of fig. 2.
S12: taking a tungsten plug 21 as a lower electrode, and depositing a functional layer material such as a ferroelectric film 22 on the tungsten plug 21; as shown in fig. 3.
The ferroelectric thin film 22 can be prepared by electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition, or sputtering.
In the step, the tungsten plug is directly used as the lower electrode without additionally manufacturing the lower electrode, so that the process steps can be saved, and the process complexity is reduced.
S13: depositing an upper electrode 23 on the functional layer material; as shown in fig. 4.
The material of the upper electrode 23 includes but is not limited to W, Ru, Al, Ti and conductive metal compound TiN, TaN, IrO2、ITO、IZO。
The upper electrode 23 can be prepared by processes such as electron beam evaporation, chemical vapor deposition, pulsed laser deposition, atomic layer deposition or sputtering.
The thickness of the upper electrode 23 is in the range of 5nm to 200 nm.
S14: and patterning the upper electrode and the functional layer to finish the preparation of the programmable diode.
The invention also discloses a programmable diode prepared by the preparation method of the programmable diode and a ferroelectric memory adopting the programmable diode, wherein the ferroelectric memory comprises a transistor and a programmable ferroelectric diode (1T1D), and the design is used for storing information according to different polarities of the diode, so that the area of the device can be further reduced, and the storage density of the memory can be improved.
The above-mentioned embodiments are intended to illustrate the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in further detail, and it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are only exemplary embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.