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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 8(34), p. 987-989, 2013

DOI: 10.1109/led.2013.2262918

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Tantalum-nitride antifuse electromechanical OTP for embedded memory applications

Journal article published in 2013 by Pushpapraj Singh, Chua Geng Li, Prakash Pitchappa, Chengkuo Lee ORCID
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Abstract

Embedded nonvolatile memory (NVM) integrated in the back-end of line processes are of high interest, particularly for rugged environments (high temperature/radiation or vibration). This letter demonstrates the use of tantalum nitride microbeams as antifuse one-time programmable (OTP) NVM. It needs a single mask process and can be integrated above an integrated circuit. Typical fusing current is 1 mA, operating voltage is 4 V, and the measured contact resistance is <;2 kQ. A hybrid one-transistor/one microbeam/bit memory array is proposed for back-end compatible and low-cost OTP NVM integration.