优化了栅电极溅射工艺的难熔金属栅MOS电容的性能

论述了通过优化难熔金属栅电极的溅射工艺及采用适当的退火温度修复损伤来提高 3nm栅氧 W/ Ti N叠层栅 MOS电容的性能 .实验选取了合适的 Ti N厚度来减小应力 ,以较小的 Ti N溅射率避免溅射过程对栅介质的损伤 ,并采用了较高的 N2 / Ar比率在 Ti N溅射过程中进一步氮化了栅介质 .实验得到了高质量的 C- V曲线 ,并成功地把 Nss(表面态密度 )降低到了 8× 10 1 0 / cm2以下 ,达到了与多晶硅栅 MOS电容相当的水平     

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TM53,TN305.92 02050410优化了栅电极溅射工艺的难熔金属栅M 05电容的性能/李瑞钊,徐秋霞(中国科学院微电子中心)11半导体学报一2 001,22(10).一1231一1234论述了通过优化难熔金属栅电极的溅射工艺及采用适当的退火温度修复损伤来提高3nm栅氧W/TIN叠层栅MOS电容的性能.实验选取了合适的TIN厚度来减小应力,以较小的TIN溅射率避免溅射过程对栅介质的损伤,并采用了较高的NZ/Af比率在TIN’溅射过程中进一步氮化了栅介质.实验得到了高质量的C一V曲线,并成功地把N。。(表面态密度)’降低到了8、10‘。/c mZ以下,达到了与多晶硅栅M 05…     

超薄氮氧叠层栅介质的金属栅pMOS电容的电学特性

研究了高质量超薄氮化硅/氮氧化硅(N/O)叠层栅介质的金属栅pMOS电容的电学特性,制备了栅介质等效厚度小于2nm的N/O复合叠层栅介质,该栅介质具有很强的抗硼穿通能力和低的漏电流.实验表明这种N/O复合栅介质与优化溅射W/TiN金属栅相结合的技术具有良好的发展前景.     

LaON钝化层改善HfTiO高k栅介质Ge MOS电容电特性（英文）

采用溅射法淀积一层LaON薄膜作为钝化层,制备了HfTiO栅介质Ge MOS电容,并对它们的电特性进行了仔细研究。HfTiO/LaON堆栈栅介质Ge MOS电容呈现出许多比HfTiO Ge MOS电容更好的电特性,如更低的界面态密度(4.5×10~(11)eV~(-1)/cm~2)、更小的栅极漏电流(1.08×10~(-5)A/cm~2 at V_(fb)+1 V)和更大的k值(24.8)。获得这些结果的机理在于LaON钝化层能有效阻止O、Ti、Hf和Ge的相互扩散,从而抑制HfGeTiO界面层的生长。HfTiO/LaON是高质量Ge MOS器件有前途的高k栅介质。     

恒电流应力引起HfO2栅介质薄膜的击穿特性

利用磁控溅射的方法在p-Si上制备了高k(高介电常数)栅介质HfO2薄膜的MOS电容,对薄栅氧化层电容的软击穿和硬击穿特性进行了实验研究.利用在栅极加恒电流应力的方法研究了不同面积HfO2薄栅介质的击穿特性以及击穿对栅介质的I-V特性和C-V特性的影响.实验结果表明薄栅介质的击穿过程中有很明显的软击穿现象发生,与栅氧化层面积有很大的关系,面积大的电容比较容易发生击穿.分析比较了软击穿和硬击穿的区别,并利用统计分析模型对薄栅介质的击穿机理进行了解释.     

恒电流应力引起HfO_2栅介质薄膜的击穿特性

利用磁控溅射的方法在p- Si上制备了高k(高介电常数)栅介质Hf O2薄膜的MOS电容,对薄栅氧化层电容的软击穿和硬击穿特性进行了实验研究.利用在栅极加恒电流应力的方法研究了不同面积Hf O2 薄栅介质的击穿特性以及击穿对栅介质的I- V特性和C- V特性的影响.实验结果表明薄栅介质的击穿过程中有很明显的软击穿现象发生,与栅氧化层面积有很大的关系,面积大的电容比较容易发生击穿.分析比较了软击穿和硬击穿的区别,并利用统计分析模型对薄栅介质的击穿机理进行了解释     

氮化H2-O2合成薄栅介质的击穿特性

研究了14～16nm的H2-O2合成薄栅介质击穿特性.实验发现,N2O气氛氮化H2-O2合成法制备的薄栅介质能够有效地提高栅介质的零时间击穿特性.H2-O2合成法制备的样品,其击穿场强分布特性随测试MOS电容面积的增加而变差,而氮化H2-O2合成薄栅介质的击穿特性随测试MOS电容面积的增加基本保持不变.对于时变击穿,氮化同样能够明显提高栅介质的击穿电荷及其分布.     

氮化H2-O2合成薄栅介质的击穿特性

研究了14～16nm的H2-O2合成薄栅介质击穿特性.实验发现,N2O气氛氮化H2-O2合成法制备的薄栅介质能够有效地提高栅介质的零时间击穿特性.H2-O2合成法制备的样品,其击穿场强分布特性随测试MOS电容面积的增加而变差,而氮化H2-O2合成薄栅介质的击穿特性随测试MOS电容面积的增加基本保持不变.对于时变击穿,氮化同样能够明显提高栅介质的击穿电荷及其分布.     

HfO2高K栅介质薄膜的电学特性研究

研究了高 K(高介电常数 )栅介质 Hf O2 薄膜的制备工艺 ,制备了有效氧化层厚度为 2 .9nm的超薄MOS电容。对电容的电学特性如 C-V特性 ,I-V特性 ,击穿特性进行了测试。实验结果显示 :Hf O2 栅介质电容具有良好的 C-V特性 ,较低的漏电流和较高的击穿电压。因此 ,Hf O2 栅介质可能成为 Si O2 栅介质的替代物。     

电离总剂量效应对HfO2栅介质经时击穿特性影响

针对纳米金属-氧化物-半导体(MOS)器件中采用的高介电常数HfO₂栅介质,开展电离总剂量效应对栅介质经时击穿特性影响的研究。以HfO₂栅介质MOS电容为研究对象,进行不同栅极偏置条件下⁶⁰Co-γ射线的电离总剂量辐照试验,对比辐照前后MOS电容的电流-电压、电容-电压以及经时击穿特性的测试结果。结果显示,不同的辐照偏置条件下,MOS电容的损伤特性不同。正偏辐照下,低栅压下的栅电流显著增大,电容电压特性的斜率降低;零偏辐照下,正向高栅压时栅电流和电容均显著增大;负偏辐照下,栅电流均有增大,正向高栅压下电容增大,且电容斜率降低。3种偏置下,电容的经时击穿电压均显著减小。该研究为纳米MOS器件在辐射环境下的长期可靠性研究提供了参考。     

Effects of the sputtering deposition process of metal gate electrode on the gate dielectric characteristics

Effects of the N₂-introduced reactive sputtering deposition of metal gate electrodes on the gate leakage current and the dielectric reliability of the W/WN_x and W/TiN metal gate MOS capacitors are investigated. The gate dielectric characteristics of W gate MOS capacitor are degraded during the sputtering deposition of the gate electrode. However, the sputtering process-induced degradation of the dielectric characteristics is improved by increasing N₂ flow ratio during the deposition of WN_x gate electrode. This improvement is considered to be due to the termination of the dangling bonds in the surface-damaged layer in the gate dielectric by the surface nitridation. The nitridation of 1.5 at.% is found to effectively improve both gate leakage characteristics and dielectric reliability of the W/WN_x gate MOS capacitor to a level comparable to those of the poly-Si gate. The characteristics of W/WN_x gate MOS transistors are also improved by the surface nitridation through the decrease of the gate leakage current. However, the surface nitridation enhances the electron trapping probability under substrate injection, which results in the lower activation energy of CVS–Q_bd of metal gate MOS capacitors.     

高k HfO2栅介质淀积后退火工艺研究

研究了淀积后退火(PDA)工艺(包括退火环境和退火温度)对高介电常数(k)HfO2栅介质MOS电容(MOSCAP)电学特性的影响.通过对比O2和N2环境中,不同退火温度下的HfO2栅介质MOSCAP的C-V曲线发现,高kHfO2栅介质在N2环境中退火时具有更大的工艺窗口.通过对HfO2栅介质MOSCAP的等效氧化层厚度(dEOT)、平带电压(Vfb)和栅极泄漏电流(Ig)等参数进一步分析发现,与O2环境相比,高kHfO2栅介质在N2环境中PDA处理时dEOT和Ig更小、Vfb相差不大,更适合纳米器件的进一步微缩.HfO2栅介质PDA处理的最佳工艺条件是在N2环境中600℃下进行.该优化条件下高kHfO2栅介质MOSCAP的dEOT=0.75 nm,Vnb=0.37 V,Ig=0.27 A/cm2,满足14或16 nm技术节点对HfO2栅介质的要求.     

Electrical Properties of Ultra Thin Nitride/Oxynitride Stack Dielectrics pMOS Capacitor with Refractory Metal Gate

Electrical properties of high quality ultra thin nitride/oxynitride（N/O）stack dielectrics pMOS capacitor with refractory metal gate electrode are investigated，and ultra thin (＜2 nm＝ N/O stack gate dielectrics with significant low leakage current and high resistance to boron penetration are fabricated.Experiment results show that the stack gate dielectric of nitride/oxynitride combined with improved sputtered tungsten/titanium nitride (W/TiN) gate electrode is one of the candidates for deep sub-micron metal gate CMOS devices.     

高温氧化对SiC MOS器件栅氧可靠性的影响

SiC金属氧化物半导体(MOS)器件中SiO2栅氧化层的可靠性直接影响器件的功能.为了开发高可靠性的栅氧化层,将n型4H-SiC (0001)外延片分别在1 200,1 250,1 350,1 450和1 550℃5种温度下进行高温干氧氧化实验来制备SiO2栅氧化层.在室温下,对SiC MOS电容样品的栅氧化层进行零时击穿(TZDB)和与时间有关的击穿(TDDB)测试,并对不同干氧氧化温度处理下的栅氧化层样品分别进行了可靠性分析.结果发现,在1 250℃下进行高温干氧氧化时所得的击穿场强和击穿电荷最大,分别为11.21 MV/cm和5.5×10-4 C/cm2,势垒高度(2.43 eV)最接近理论值.当温度高于1 250℃时生成的SiO2栅氧化层的可靠性随之降低.     

湿N2退火HfTiO和HfO2栅介质 Ge MOS电特性研究

采用反应磁控溅射方法在Ge衬底上分别制备了HfTiO和HfO2高κ栅介质薄膜,并研究了湿N2和干N2退火对介质性能的影响。由于GeOx在水气氛中的水解特性,湿N2退火能分解淀积过程中生长的锗氧化物,降低界面态和氧化物电荷密度,有效提高栅介质质量。测量结果表明,湿N2退火Al/HfTiO/n-GeMOS和Al/HfO2/n-GeMOS电容的栅介质等效厚度分别为3.2nm和3.7nm,-1V栅偏压下的栅极漏电流分别为1.08×10-5A/cm2和7.79×10-6A/cm2。实验结果还表明,HfTiO样品由于Ti元素的引入提高了介电性能,但是Ti的扩散也使得界面态密度升高。     

Gate oxide reliabilities in MOS (metal-oxide-semiconductor) structures with Ti-polycide gates

We have investigated the thermal degradation of gate oxide in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures with Ti-polycide gates. We found that the Ti-diffusion into the underlying polysilicon and consequently to the gate oxide occurs upon thermal cycling processes, which results in the dielectric breakdown of the gate oxide. We also found that the Ti-diffusion is suppressed by the employment of the thin (about 5 nm) titanium nitride (TiN) diffusion barrier layer, which consequently improved the reliability characterisitics of gate oxide significantly.     

Dual layer SrTiO3/HfO2 gate dielectric for aggressively scaled band-edge nMOS devices

We have fabricated TiN/Poly-Si gated MOS devices with SrTiO₃/HfO₂ dual layer gate dielectric. These gate dielectrics show EOT (Equivalent Oxide Thickness) scaling of less than 0.7 nm as well as large V_fb shift in the nMOS direction after conventional gate first process. A sweet spot is observed for 0.5 nm SrTiO₃ where a band-edge effective work-function is obtained with improved EOT, reduced gate leakage and minimal hysteresis increase. But Sr diffuse into the interfacial layer leads to interface degradation. It is shown that proper PDA (post-deposition anneal) can improve interface quality while maintaining thinner EOT.     

低温退火对具有HfO2/TiN栅结构的MOS电容电学性能的影响

The effects of low temperature annealing,such as post high-k dielectric deposition annealing(PDA),post metal annealing(PMA)and forming gas annealing(FGA)on the electrical characteristics of a metal–oxide–semiconductor(MOS)capacitor with a TiN metal gate and a HfO2dielectric are systematically investigated.It can be found that the low temperature annealing can improve the capacitance–voltage hysteresis performance significantly at the cost of increasing gate leakage current.Moreover,FGA could effectively decrease the interfacial state density and oxygen vacancy density,and PDA could make the flat band positively shift which is suitable for P-type MOSs.     

Improved Electrical Properties of Ge p-MOSFET With $ hbox{HfO}_{2}$ Gate Dielectric by Using $hbox{TaO}_{x} hbox{N}_{y}$ Interlayer

The electrical characteristics of germanium p-metal-oxide-semiconductor (p-MOS) capacitor and p-MOS field-effect transistor (FET) with a stack gate dielectric of HfO₂/TaOxNy are investigated. Experimental results show that MOS devices exhibit much lower gate leakage current than MOS devices with only HfO₂ as gate dielectric, good interface properties, good transistor characteristics, and about 1.7-fold hole-mobility enhancement as compared with conventional Si p-MOSFETs. These demonstrate that forming an ultrathin passivation layer of TaOxNy on germanium surface prior to deposition of high-k dielectrics can effectively suppress the growth of unstable GeOx, thus reducing interface states and increasing carrier mobility in the inversion channel of Ge-based transistors.