Threshold voltage (V/sub th/) instability in HfO/sub 2/ high-/spl kappa/ gate stacks with TiN metal gate: comparison between NH/sub 3/ and O/sub 3/ interface treatments |
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| Authors: | Xuguang Wang Peterson J. Majhi P. Gardner M.I. Dim-Lee Kwong |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX, USA; |
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The impacts of O/sub 3/ or NH/sub 3/ interface treatments on the long-term V/sub th/ instability in nMOSFET HfO/sub 2/ high-/spl kappa/ gate stacks with TiN metal gate electrodes are compared. The NH/sub 3/ interface treatment is found to be beneficial to suppress the V/sub th/ shift compared to the O/sub 3/-treated samples. This is explained by an enhanced valence band electrons injection in O/sub 3/-treated samples and is experimentally confirmed through a carrier separation measurement. The dynamic stress measurement also indicates that trapped charges are more easily detrapped in NH/sub 3/-treated samples than O/sub 3/-treated samples, improving significantly the V/sub th/ stability. |
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