标题: | Plasma-induced charging damage in ultrathin (3-nm) gate oxides |
作者: | Chen, CC Lin, HC Chang, CY Liang, MS Chien, CH Hsien, SK Huang, TY Chao, TS 电子工程学系及电子研究所 Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics |
关键字: | dielectric breakdown;leakage current;nitrogen;plasma applications;semiconductor device reliability |
公开日期: | 1-七月-2000 |
摘要: | Plasma-induced damage in various 3-nm-thick gate oxides (i.e., pure oxides and N2O-nitrided oxides) was investigated by subjecting both nMOS and pMOS antenna devices to a photoresist ashing step after metal pad definition. Both charge-to-break-down and gate leakage current measurements indicated that large leakage current occurs at the wafer center as well as the wafer edge for pMOS devices, while only at the wafer center for nMOS devices. These interesting observations could be explained by the strong polarity dependence of ultra-thin oxides in charge-to breakdown measurements of nMOS devices. In addition, pMOS devices were found to be more susceptible to charging damage, which can be attributed to the intrinsic polarity dependence in tunneling current between n- and p-MOSFET,s. More importantly, our experimental results demonstrated that stress-induced leakage current (SILC) caused by plasma damage can be significantly suppressed in N2O-nitrided oxides, compared to pure oxides, especially for pMOS devices. Finally, nitrided oxides were also found to be more robust when subjected to high temperature stressing. Therefore, nitrided oxides appear to be very promising for reducing plasma charging damage in future ULSI technologies employing ultrathin gate oxides. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/16.848277 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/30404 |
ISSN: | 0018-9383 |
DOI: | 10.1109/16.848277 |
期刊: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES |
Volume: | 47 |
Issue: | 7 |
起始页: | 1355 |
结束页: | 1360 |
显示于类别: | Articles |
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