標題: Effect of NH(3) Plasma Nitridation on Hot-Carrier Instability and Low-Frequency Noise in Gd-Doped High-kappa Dielectric nMOSFETs
作者: Chen, Yu-Ting
Chen, Kun-Ming
Lin, Cheng-Li
Yeh, Wen-Kuan
Huang, Guo-Wei
Lai, Chien-Ming
Chen, Yi-Wen
Hsu, Che-Hua
Huang, Fon-Shan
電子工程學系及電子研究所
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
公開日期: 1-三月-2011
摘要: The effects of post-NH(3) plasma nitridation on device's hot-carrier instability and low-frequency noise in the Hf-based high-kappa/metal-gate n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (nMOSFETs) with gadolinium (Gd) cap layers are investigated. With postnitridation, the direct-current and 1/f noise characteristics can be improved apparently. Moreover, a hot-carrier stressing-induced threshold voltage shift can be also suppressed despite of a similar transconductance degradation when comparing with that in the device without nitridation. With the charge-pumping and low-frequency noise measurements, we find that the bulk-and interfacial-trap densities can be reduced with nitrogen incorporation. The reduction of bulk and interfacial traps can be contributed to the suppression of Gd diffusion into a high-kappa layer. In this paper, appropriate post-NH(3) plasma nitridation can improve the device performance and reliability and low-frequency noise for a gate-first high-kappa/metal-gate nMOSFET with a Gd cap layer.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TED.2010.2101606
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/9248
ISSN: 0018-9383
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2101606
期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume: 58
Issue: 3
起始頁: 812
結束頁: 818
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