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Floating body effect
The floating body effect is the effect of dependence of the body potential of a transistor realized by the silicon on insulator (SOI) technology on the history of its biasing and the carrier recombination processes. The transistor's body forms a capacitor against the insulated substrate. The charge accumulates on this capacitor and may cause adverse effects, for example, opening of parasitic transistors in the structure and causing off-state leakages, resulting in higher current consumption and in case of DRAM in loss of information from the memory cells. It also causes the history effect, the dependence of the threshold voltage of the transistor on its previous states. In analog devices, the floating body effect is known as the kink effect.
One countermeasure to floating body effect involves use of fully depleted devices. The insulator layer in FD devices is significantly thinner than the channel depletion width. The charge and thus also the body potential of the transistors is therefore fixed. 〔(SOI technology for the GHz era ), IBM Journal of Research and Development〕 However, the short-channel effect is worsened in the FD devices, the body may still charge up if both source and drain are high, and the architecture is unsuitable for some analog devices that require contact with the body. 〔(Intel does about-face on SOI, backs high-k dielectric ), EE Times〕Hybrid trench isolation is another approach.〔(Mitsubishi SOI process uses hybrid trench isolation ), EE Times〕
While floating body effect presents a problem in SOI DRAM chips, it is exploited as the underlying principle for Z-RAM and T-RAM technologies. For this reason, the effect is sometimes called the Cinderella effect in the context of these technologies, because it transforms a disadvantage into an advantage.〔(Z-RAM Shirnks Embedded Memory ), Microprocessor Report〕 AMD and Hynix licensed Z-RAM, but as of 2008 had not put it into production.〔
Another similar technology (and Z-RAM competitor) developed at Toshiba〔http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/memory/winner-masters-of-memory〕〔(Toshiba cuts capacitor from DRAM cell design )〕 and refined at Intel is Floating Body Cell (FBC).〔http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1006279/intel-talks-up-floating-body-cells〕〔(Intel explores floating-body cells on SOI )〕
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