Electrical properties of vacuum annealed La2O3 thin films grown by E-beam evaporation |
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Authors: | Yongshik Kim Kunihiro Miyauchi Kazuo Tsutsui |
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Affiliation: | a Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi 226-8502, Japan b Frontier Collaborative Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi 226-8502, Japan |
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Abstract: | In this article, the conduction mechanisms of metal-oxide-semiconductor with vacuum annealed Lanthana (La2O3) oxide film are investigated. Lanthana films with thicknesses of 3.5, 4.7, and 11 nm were deposited by E-beam evaporation on n-Si (100), and annealed at various temperatures (300-500 °C) in ultra-high vacuum (10−10-10−9 Torr) for 90 min. From the measurement of spectroscopic ellipsometry, it is found that film thickness is increased with annealing temperature, which would be cause of flat-band voltage shift (ΔVFB) due to the growth of interfacial layer. From the capacitance measurement, it is found that ΔVFB of the film is reduced by post-deposition anneal (PDA) compared to that of as-deposited film, but increase again at high temperature annealing, especially in the case of thin film (3.5 nm). From the applied voltage and temperature dependence of the leakage current of the film, with different gate electrode materials (Ag, Al, and Pt), it is shown that the leakage currents are associated with ohmic and Poole-Frenkel (P-F) conductions when flat-band voltage (VFB) is less than zero, and ohmic and Space-Charge-Limited Current (SCLC) conductions when VFB is greater than zero. The dielectric constants obtained from P-F conduction for Al gate electrode case is found to be 11.6, which is consistent with the C-V result 11.9. Barrier height of trap potential well is found to be 0.24 eV from P-F conduction. Based on SCLC theory, leakage currents of 3.5 and 11 nm films with different PDA temperatures are explained in terms of oxide trap density. |
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Keywords: | High-k Rare earth oxide La2O3 Vacuum annealing Poole-Frenkel conduction Space-charge-limited conduction |
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