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    Low-Temperature Microwave Annealing for MOSFETs With High-k/Metal Gate Stacks
    (2013-10-01)
    Lee, Yao-Jen
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    Tsai, Bo-An
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    Lai, Chiung-Hui
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    Chen, Zheng-Yao
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    Hsueh, Fu-Kuo
    In this letter, low-temperature (480 degrees C) microwave annealing (MWA) for MOS devices with high-k/metal gate-stacks is demonstrated. The capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of the MOS gate-stacks, TiN/HfO2, and TaN/HfO2, after different annealing methods are discussed. The increases in equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of the MOS devices after dopant activation processing can be eliminated using low temperature MWA. In addition, the short channel effects in nMOSFETs annealed by MWA can be also improved because of the suppression of dopant diffusion and stabilization of EOT.