3D NAND vendors face several challenges to scale their devices to the next level, but one manufacturing technology stands out as much more difficult at each turn—metrology. Metrology, the art of ...

Last week, Micron Technology ( MU) and Intel ( INTC) announced the availability of their 3D NAND technology, the world's highest density flash technology used in laptops, data centers, tablets and ...

Without a doubt, 3D NAND is the future. 2D planar NAND is already at its limitations and everyone in the memory industry is already making the switch to 3D for their next generation products. While ...

A new research paper titled “Impact of Stacking-Up and Scaling-Down Bit Cells in 3D NAND on Their Threshold Voltages” was published by researchers at Sungkyunkwan University and Korea University.

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) etching is a critical process step in the fabrication of three-dimensional NAND flash memories, where vertically stacked layers demand exceptional process precision. The ...

Samsung Electronics is currently dedicated to the R&D of 11nm level DRAM and ninth-generation 3D NAND Flash. The goal is to raise integration to the highest level in the industry, realize its existing ...

The part 1 of this two-article series outlined the NAND flash technology and how it transitioned from 2D to 3D NAND flash. The article also explained the current challenges in the way of density ...