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Ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) is a promising memory cell for space application. The FeFET can achieve non-destructive reading, and has the advantages of simple structure and high integration. Ferroelectric thin film’s size effect, retention performance and radiation resistance of ferroelectric thin films directly determine the performances of FeFET devices. The HfO2 is widely used as a dielectric in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device and can solve the common integration problems for ferroelectric materials due to its CMOS compatibility. When the HfO2-based FeFETs are applied to aerospace electronics, the effects of various radiation particles need to be considered. The HfO2-based FeFET memory is still in the experimental stage, and there are no products of HfO2-based FeFET chips available from the market, so it is difficult to carry out experimental research on its single particle effect In the case of lacking the finished products of HfO2-based FeFET devices, using the device-hybrid simulation method to study the HfO2-based FeFET single-particle effect is a necessary and feasible content for the research on HfO2-based FeFET single-particle effects. In this paper, the device-circuit simulation method is used to build a read-write circuit of HfO2-based ferroelectric field-effect transistor. The change of read and write data after a single particle is incident on a ferroelectric field effect transistor memory cell and a sensitive node of a peripheral sense amplifier is studied, and the internal mechanism of read and write data fluctuation is analyzed. The results show that when high-energy particles enter into the drain of the ferroelectric memory cell in the read-write circuit, the memory cells in the “0” state generate electron-hole pairs, which accumulate inside the device, causing the gate electric field strength and ferroelectricity to increase, and the memory cell in the “1” state has a large fluctuation in the output transient pulse voltage signal due to the charge injection of the source, indicating that the ferroelectric memory cell has a good performance against particle flipping; when high-energy particles enter into the amplifier’s sensitive node, a collection current is generated, causing the amplifier in the state of reading “0” to turn on, and the output data to fluctuate. Owing to the fluctuation time being only 0.4 ns, the data does not have single-particle flipping energy under normal readout, and the HfO2-based FeFET read-write circuit has excellent resistance to single particles. When two beams of high-energy particles act on the drain of a ferroelectric memory cell successively in a time interval of 0.5 ns, the output data signal fluctuates more than in the case of a single beam of high-energy particles, and the final output voltage difference in the reading and writing “1” state becomes smaller.
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图 1 HfO2基FeFET器件物理模型
Figure 1. Device physical models of HfO2-based FeFET.
图 2 2 × 2铁电存储阵列的读写电路
Figure 2. Read and write circuit of 2 × 2 ferroelectric memory array.
图 3 2 × 2铁电存储阵列控制仿真时序
Figure 3. Control simulation timing of 2 × 2 ferroelectric memory array.
图 4 HfO2基FeFET写入时器件内部的电荷密度分布 (a)写入“1”器件内部电荷分布; (b)写入“0”时器件内部电荷分布
Figure 4. Charge density distribution inside the device when HfO2-based FeFET is written: (a) The internal charge distribution of the device is written with “1”; (b) the internal charge distribution of the device is written with “0”.
图 5 铁电存储阵列的读写信号 (a)灵敏放大器输出信号变化; (b) cell 1输出信号变化; (c) cell 1极化强度变化
Figure 5. Reading and writing of ferroelectric memory arrays: (a) Changes in the output signal of the sense amplifier; (b) changes in the output signal of cell 1; (c) changes in the polarization of cell 1.
图 6 单粒子入射读写“0”铁电存储单元cell 1漏极的瞬态效应 (a) cell 1漏极电流脉冲变化; (b) cell 1输出信号变化; (c) cell 1极化强度变化; (d)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 6. Transient effects of single-particle incident read and write “0” ferroelectric storage tube drain: (a) Change of drain current pulse; (b) change of cell 1 output signal; (c) change of cell 1 polarization intensity; (d) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 7 单粒子入射读写“1”铁电存储单元cell 1漏极的瞬态效应 (a) cell 1极化强度变化; (b) cell 1输出信号变化; (c)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 7. Transient effects of single-particle incident read and write “1” ferroelectric storage tube drain: (a) Change of cell 1 polarization intensity; (b) change of cell 1 output signal; (c) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 8 读写“0”时, 单粒子入射灵敏放大器输入管的瞬态效应 (a)铁电存储单元cell 1极化强度变化; (b)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 8. Transient effects of a single-particle incident sensible amplifier input tube when reading and writing “0”: (a) Change of ferroelectric cell 1 polarization intensity; (b) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 9 读写“1”时, 单粒子入射灵敏放大器输入管的瞬态效应 (a)铁电存储管极化强度变化; (b)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 9. Transient effects of a single-particle incident sensible amplifier input tube when reading and writing “1”: (a) Change of ferroelectric transistor polarization intensity; (b) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 10 单粒子作用于不同剩余极化和矫顽场的HZO铁电薄膜下的铁电存储单元cell 1的信号变化 (a) 铁电存储单元的极化强度变化; (b)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 10. Signal change of ferroelectric memory cell cell 1 under single-particle HZO ferroelectric thin film with different remanent polarization and coercive field: (a) Change of ferroelectric transistor polarization intensity; (b) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 11 两束单粒子入射读写“1”铁电存储单元cell 1漏极的瞬态效应 (a) cell 1漏极电流脉冲变化; (b) cell 1极化强度变化; (c)灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 11. Transient effects of two single-particle incident read and write “1” ferroelectric storage tube drain: (a) Change of drain current pulse; (b) change of cell 1 polarization intensity; (c) change of sense amplifier output signal.
图 12 两束单粒子入射读写“0”铁电存储单元cell 1漏极的瞬态效应 (a) cell 1极化强度变化; (b) 灵敏放大器输出信号变化
Figure 12. Transient effects of two single-particle incident read and write “0” ferroelectric storage tube drain: (a) Change of cell 1 polarization intensity; (b) change of sense amplifier output signal.
表 1 HfO2基FeFET工艺参数
Table 1. Process parameters of HfO2-FeFET.
参数 数值 多晶硅厚度/nm 20 栅氧层厚度/nm 1 铁电层厚度/nm 10 沟道长度/nm 45 N型衬底浓度/cm–3 1 × 1016 N阱浓度/cm–3 5 × 1016 源/漏浓度/cm–3 2 × 1020 阈值电压掺杂浓度/cm–3 5 × 1017 饱和极化值Ps/μC·cm–2 28 剩余极化值Pr/μC·cm–2 23 矫顽场强度Ec/MV·cm–1 1 介电常数Eps 22 
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表 2 输出端Out 1和Out 2之间的电位差变化
Table 2. Voltage difference change between Out 1 and Out 2.
LET值/MeV·cm2·mg–1 0 10 20 30 120 150 180 电压差/V 1.9 1.85 1.7 1.2 1 0.95 0.9
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[1] Irom F, Nguyen D N, Underwood M L, Virtanen A 2010 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 57 3329
Google Scholar
[2] Weller R A, Mendenhall M H, Reed R A, Schrimpf R D 2010 Trans. Nucl. Sci. 57 1726
Google Scholar
[3] 付承菊, 郭冬云 2006 微纳电子技术 9 14
Fu C J, Guo D Y 2006 Micro-nano Technology 9 14
[4] Mikolajick T, Slesazeck S, Park M H, Schroeder U 2018 MRS Bull. 43 340
Google Scholar
[5] Li H, Hu M, Li C, Duan S 2014 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) Tampa, FL, USA, July 9−11, 2014 p65
[6] 何伟 2014 硕士学位论文 (成都: 电子科技大学)
He W 2007 Ph. D. Dissertation (Chendu: University of Electronic Science and Technology) (in Chinese)
[7] Sharma D K, Khosla R, Sharma S K 2015 Solid-State Electron. 42 111
Google Scholar
[8] Wang P, Wang Y, Ye L, Wu M, Xie R, Wang X, Hu W 2018 Small 14 1800492
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[9] Wang J, Fang H, Wang X, Chen X, Lu W, Hu W 2017 Small 13 1700894
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[12] Tu L, Wang X, Wang J, Meng X, Chu J 2018 Adv. Electron. Mater. 4 1800231
Google Scholar
[13] 唐明华 2007 博士学位论文 (湘潭: 湘潭大学)
Tang M H 2007 Ph. D. Dissertation (Xiangtan: Xiangtan University) (in Chinese)
[14] Amusan O A, Massengill L W, Baze M P 2007 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 54 2584
Google Scholar
[15] Coic Y M, Musseau O, Leray J L 1994 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41 495
Google Scholar
[16] Li X, Lai L 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) Hong Kong, China, July 8−11, 2018 p750
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Google Scholar
[19] Takahashi M, Zhang W, Sakai S 2018 IEEE International Memory Workshop (IMW) Kyoto, Japan, May 13−16, 2018 p1
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[22] 刘巧灵 2018 硕士学位论文 (湘潭: 湘潭大学)
Liu Q L 2018 Ph. D. Dissertation (Xiangtan: Xiangtan University) (in Chinese)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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