Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device including a nano dot and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device may include a lower electrode, an oxide layer on the lower electrode, a nano dot in the oxide layer and an upper electrode on the oxide layer. In example embodiments, the current paths inside the oxide layer may be unified, thereby stabilizing the reset current.

Abstract: A memory device may include a switching device and a storage node coupled with the switching device. The storage node may include a first electrode, a second electrode, a data storage layer and at least one contact layer. The data storage layer may be disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and may include a transition metal oxide or aluminum oxide. The at least one contact layer may be disposed at least one of above or below the data storage layer and may include a conductive metal oxide.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device including a lower electrode, a resistor structure disposed on the lower electrode, a middle electrode disposed on the resistor structure, a diode structure disposed on the middle electrode, and an upper electrode disposed on the diode structure. A nonvolatile memory device wherein the resistor structure includes one resistor and the diode structure includes one diode. An array of nonvolatile memory device as described above. Methods of manufacturing a nonvolatile memory device and an array of nonvolatile memory device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor (“TFT”) in which a polycrystalline channel region having a large grain size is formed relatively simply and easily. The method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor includes forming a bottom gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the bottom gate electrode, forming an amorphous semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer and an electrode layer on the gate insulating layer sequentially, etching an electrode region and an N-type semiconductor layer region formed on the bottom gate electrode sequentially to expose an amorphous semiconductor layer region, melting the amorphous semiconductor layer region using a laser annealing method, and crystallizing the melted amorphous semiconductor layer region to form a laterally grown polycrystalline channel region.

Abstract: A nano-elastic memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The nano-elastic memory device may include a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes arranged in parallel on the substrate, a support unit formed of an insulating material to a desired or predetermined thickness on the substrate having cavities that expose the lower electrodes, a nano-elastic body extending perpendicular from a surface of the lower electrodes in the cavities, and a plurality of upper electrodes formed on the support unit and perpendicularly crossing the lower electrodes over the nano-elastic bodies.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor (“TFT”) in which a polycrystalline channel region having a large grain size is formed relatively simply and easily. The method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor includes forming a bottom gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the bottom gate electrode, forming an amorphous semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer and an electrode layer on the gate insulating layer sequentially, etching an electrode region and an N-type semiconductor layer region formed on the bottom gate electrode sequentially to expose an amorphous semiconductor layer region, melting the amorphous semiconductor layer region using a laser annealing method, and crystallizing the melted amorphous semiconductor layer region to form a laterally grown polycrystalline channel region.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a method of manufacturing amorphous NiO thin films and nonvolatile memory devices including amorphous thin films that use a resistance material. Other example embodiments relate to a method of manufacturing amorphous NiO thin films having improved switching and resistance characteristics by reducing a leakage current and non-volatile memory devices using an amorphous NiO thin film. Provided is a method of manufacturing an amorphous NiO thin film having improved switching behavior by reducing leakage current and improving resistance characteristics. The method may include preparing a substrate in a vacuum chamber, preparing a nickel precursor material, preparing a source gas by vaporizing the nickel precursor material, preparing a reaction gas, preparing a purge gas and forming a monolayer NiO thin film on the substrate by performing one cycle of sequentially supplying the source gas, the purge gas, the reaction gas and the purge gas into the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor (“TFT”) in which a polycrystalline channel region having a large grain size is formed relatively simply and easily. The method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor includes forming a bottom gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the bottom gate electrode, forming an amorphous semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer and an electrode layer on the gate insulating layer sequentially, etching an electrode region and an N-type semiconductor layer region formed on the bottom gate electrode sequentially to expose an amorphous semiconductor layer region, melting the amorphous semiconductor layer region using a laser annealing method, and crystallizing the melted amorphous semiconductor layer region to form a laterally grown polycrystalline channel region.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device including a lower electrode, a resistor structure disposed on the lower electrode, a diode structure disposed on the resistor structure, and an upper electrode disposed on the diode structure. A nonvolatile memory device wherein the resistor structure includes one resistor and the diode structure includes one diode. An array of nonvolatile memory devices as described above.

Abstract: A memory device and method for operating the same are provided. The example method may be directed to a method of performing a memory operation on a memory device, and may include applying a negative voltage bias to the memory device during a programming operation of the memory device and applying a positive voltage bias to the memory device during an erasing operation of the memory device. The example memory device may include a substrate and a gate structure formed on the substrate, the gate structure exhibiting a faster flat band voltage shift under a negative voltage bias than under a positive voltage bias, the gate structure receiving a negative voltage bias during a programming of the memory device and receiving a positive voltage bias during an erasing operation of the memory device.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device including a nano dot and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory device may include a lower electrode, an oxide layer on the lower electrode, a nano dot in the oxide layer and an upper electrode on the oxide layer. In example embodiments, the current paths inside the oxide layer may be unified, thereby stabilizing the reset current.

Abstract: A nano-elastic memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The nano-elastic memory device may include a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes arranged in parallel on the substrate, a support unit formed of an insulating material to a desired or predetermined thickness on the substrate having cavities that expose the lower electrodes, a nano-elastic body extending perpendicular from a surface of the lower electrodes in the cavities, and a plurality of upper electrodes formed on the support unit and perpendicularly crossing the lower electrodes over the nano-elastic bodies.

Abstract: A nano-elastic memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The nano-elastic memory device may include a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes arranged in parallel on the substrate, a support unit formed of an insulating material to a desired or predetermined thickness on the substrate having cavities that expose the lower electrodes, a nano-elastic body extending perpendicular from a surface of the lower electrodes in the cavities, and a plurality of upper electrodes formed on the support unit and perpendicularly crossing the lower electrodes over the nano-elastic bodies.

Abstract: Nonvolatile memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The nonvolatile memory devices may include an oxide layer formed of a resistance conversion material, a lower electrode, a nano-wire layer formed of a transition metal on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the oxide layer. According to example embodiments, a reset current may be stabilized by unifying a current path on the oxide layer.

Abstract: Provided are a charge trap memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The charge trap memory device may comprise a gate structure including a plurality of metal oxide nanodots discontinuously arranged as a charge trap site on a substrate.

Abstract: Provided are methods of forming nano crystals and method of manufacturing a memory device suing the same. In an example embodiment, a method of forming nano crystals may include forming an amorphous film on a substrate and converting the amorphous film into an oxide film having the nano crystals by annealing the amorphous film under oxidizing conditions under which part of the crystallized film is oxidized.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device including a lower electrode, a resistor structure disposed on the lower electrode, a middle electrode disposed on the resistor structure, a diode structure disposed on the middle electrode, and an upper electrode disposed on the diode structure. A nonvolatile memory device wherein the resistor structure includes one resistor and the diode structure includes one diode. An array of nonvolatile memory device as described above.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor (“TFT”) in which a polycrystalline channel region having a large grain size is formed relatively simply and easily. The method of manufacturing a bottom gate thin film transistor includes forming a bottom gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate to cover the bottom gate electrode, forming an amorphous semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer and an electrode layer on the gate insulating layer sequentially, etching an electrode region and an N-type semiconductor layer region formed on the bottom gate electrode sequentially to expose an amorphous semiconductor layer region, melting the amorphous semiconductor layer region using a laser annealing method, and crystallizing the melted amorphous semiconductor layer region to form a laterally grown polycrystalline channel region.

Abstract: A memory device includes a gate stack on a substrate. The gate stack is disposed between a source and a drain. The gate stack includes a tunneling film, storage node, and control oxide film. A thickness of the control oxide film is greater than or equal to about 5 nm and less than or equal to about 30 nm. A method of manufacturing a memory device, including a gate stack on a substrate, wherein the gate stack is disposed between a source and a drain, includes: sequentially forming a tunneling film, a first silicon-rich oxide film, and a control oxide film on the substrate, wherein the first silicon-rich oxide film comprises a SiOx film (1.5<x<1.7); converting the first silicon-rich oxide film into a silicon oxide (SiO2) film comprising silicon nano-crystals; and patterning the control oxide film, the silicon oxide film, and the tunneling film to form the gate stack.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) and a method of fabricating the TFT may be provided. The TFT may include a substrate; a channel formed on the substrate; source and drain layers formed on both ends of the channel; a gate insulator covering the source and drain layers and the channel; a gate formed on the gate insulator; an ILD (interlayer dielectric) layer covering the gate; and/or source and drain electrodes contacting the source and drain layers through contact holes formed in the ILD layer and the gate insulator.