標題: Impacts of a buffer layer and hydrogen-annealed wafers on the performance of strained-channel nMOSFETs with SiN-capping layer
作者: Tsai, Tzu-I
Lin, Horng-Chih
Lee, Yao-Jen
Chen, King-Sheng
Wang, Jeff
Hsueh, Fu-Kuo
Chao, Tien-Sheng
Huang, Tiao-Yuan
電子物理學系
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electrophysics
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
關鍵字: Strained-Si;CESL;Si3N4 capping;Hydrogen-annealed wafer
公開日期: 1-Oct-2008
摘要: In this study, the effects of Si3N4 layer capping and TEOS buffer layer inserted prior to the Si3N4 deposition on the NMOS device characteristics as well as correlated hot-electron degradations were investigated. The devices were built on two kinds of the substrates, namely, Cz and hydrogen-annealed (Hi) wafers. More importantly, we found that hydrogen species is the primary culprit for aggravated reliabilities in strained devices. By exerting the accelerated stress test, we could study the hot-electron degradation thoroughly in terms of threshold voltage shift (Delta V-TH), transconductance degradation (Delta Gm) and so on. The TEOS buffer layer could effectively block the diffusion of hydrogen species from the Si3N4 capping layer into the channel and the Si/SiO2 interface during the Si3N4 deposition as well as subsequent thermal cycles. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sse.2008.06.007
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/28854
ISSN: 0038-1101
DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2008.06.007
期刊: SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS
Volume: 52
Issue: 10
起始頁: 1518
結束頁: 1524
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