Noble High Density Probe Memory using Ferroelectric Media beyond Sub-10 nm Generation

Feasibility of high density probe-based memory with polycrystalline ferroelectric media has been demonstrated for next memory applications beyond sub-10 nm generation. Noble chemical-mechanical-polishing (CMP) method was employed to fabricate a very even surface on polycrystalline MOCVD Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ (PZT) media. On the CMP processed PZT media, domain dot array was able to be written and read even at grain boundary region by PFM technique. Moreover, 15 nm-sized domain dot was successfully demonstrated on 50 nm-thick PZT media. Also for the first time, we successfully demonstrated that the polycrystalline ultra thin 7 nm-thick PZT media has good ferroelectric properties