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Published on: June 3, 2015
Monolithic 3D integration of atomic-layer-deposited oxide semiconductors on 200-mm silicon wafers
Chang Niu1,2, Linjia Long1,2, Luqi Zheng1,2
1Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Abstract:
Monolithic 3D (M3D) integration offers a pathway to overcome the scaling limits of conventional silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology by extending dense vertical stacking of multifunctional logic and memory devices. Here we demonstrate wafer-scale M3D integration of three tiers of atomic-layer-deposited indium oxide (InOx)-based devices (>100,000 fabricated), including ferroelectric, enhancement-mode and depletion-mode field-effect transistors, on 200-mm silicon wafers. We achieve threshold voltage standard deviations as low as 0.04 V, average electron mobilities of up to 91.6 cm2 V-1 s-1 and fully functional cross-tier circuits. A four-tier 3D computing-in-memory accelerator targeting large-language-model workloads is developed using a custom InOx process design kit, delivering 1.4× to 2.9× speed-up and comparable energy-delay product improvements over 2D baselines. These results establish atomic-layer-deposited InOx M3D integration as a scalable and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-compatible platform for next-generation artificial intelligence hardware and advanced electronics.

