Improving Thermal Stability and Interface State Density of High-κ Stacks by Incorporating Hf into an Interfacial Layer on p-Germanium

Yi He Tsai, Chen Han Chou, An Shih Shih, Yu Hau Jau, Wen Kuan Yeh, Yu Hsien Lin, Fu-Hsiang Ko, Chao-Hsin Chien*

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We propose a new HfGeOx interfacial layer (IL) for the high-κ gate-stacks on p-Type germanium substrate with improved thermal stability as compared with that of conventional GeOx IL. We inserted an additional HfO2 layer after the formation of GeOx in the HfO2/Al2O3/GeOx/Ge gate-stack by using plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition. Through the use of post-deposition annealing and post-metal annealing, the new system exhibited greater thermal immunity and was stable up to 600 °C. We speculate that the improvement originates from the formation of HfGeOx through the combination of HfO2 and GeOx , according to the thermodynamic data. By incorporating Hf into interfacial layer, the fabricated high-κ gate-stack with an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.2 nm, a low interface states density (Dit) of approximately 3.3×1011 eV-1 cm-2, and an impressive gate leakage current of approximately 2.2×10-6 A/cm2 at VFBs -1V.

原文English
文章編號7577750
頁(從 - 到)1379-1382
頁數4
期刊Ieee Electron Device Letters
37
發行號11
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 11月 2016

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