General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0725
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Performance and Reliability Evaluation of Ferroelectric Memories Based on Hafnium Oxide for Integration into Advanced Nodes.
Contract
Thèse
Job description
An explosion in global data production is observed today, largely attributed to the emergence of 5G and the Internet of Things. Faced with the challenges of managing vast amounts of data and to avoid a significant increase in global electricity consumption due to data storage, it is necessary to develop efficient, energy-efficient, and dense non-volatile memory technologies.
The discovery of ferroelectricity in hafnium oxide (HfO2) in 2010 has sparked notable interest both in the scientific and industrial domains for ferroelectric memories. These devices offer significant advantages, including reduced energy consumption, good scalability to advanced technological nodes, high endurance, and fast read/write speeds.
This thesis aims to assess the electrical performance and reliability of non-volatile ferroelectric memory components based on HfO2 manufactured at CEA-Leti. The overall objective is to integrate these memories into advanced technological nodes to increase density while reducing energy consumption and operating voltages. Understanding the physical mechanisms responsible for the degradation of ferroelectric material properties will be crucial. To achieve this, various types of memory components ranging from single cells to matrices of several tens/hundreds of kilobits will be available for conducting this work. A portion of the thesis will also involve identifying obstacles to the integration of these materials into advanced technological nodes.
University / doctoral school
Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, Traitement du Signal (EEATS)
Université Grenoble Alpes
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
MARTIN Simon simon.martin@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DCOS//LCEF
CEA-Leti - MINATEC
LETI/DCOS/SCCS/LCEF
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 9
FRANCE
04 38 78 18 36
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
GRENOUILLET Laurent laurent.grenouillet@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DCOS//LDMC
CEA-Léti MINATEC
17, rue des Martyrs
38054 Grenoble Cedex 09
04 38 78 99 23
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