Isolantes de porta com altas constantes dieletricas (High K) para tecnologia MOS / High K gate insulators for MOS technology

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2008

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High k insulators for the next generation (sub-32 nm CMOS (complementary metaloxide-semiconductor) technology), such as titanium oxide (TiOx), titanium oxynitride (TiOxNy), titanium-aluminum oxynitride (AlxTiwOyNz), titanium-aluminum nitride (AlxTiwNz) and titanium-aluminum oxide (AlxTiwOy), have been obtained by Ti or Ti/Al e-beam evaporation, with additional electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma nitridation or oxynitridation or oxidation on Si substrates. The films were characterized by ellipsometry (thickness), Fourier Transformed Infra Red (FTIR) (chemical bonds) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) (surface roughness). The ECR plasmas were characterized by optical emission spectroscopy (OES). These films have been used as gate insulators in MOS capacitors, which were fabricated with Al or TiAl gate electrodes. These capacitors were used to obtain capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) measurements. A relative dielectric constant of 3.9 was adopted to extract the Equivalent Oxide Thickness (EOT) of films from C-V curves under strong accumulation condition, resulting in values between 1.1 and 1.5 nm, and the effective charge densities of about 1012 cm-2. From I-V measurements, gate leakage currents through these gate dielectrics between 0,02 mA and 20 mA were extracted. The best results (leakage current lower than 4 mA and EOT thinner than 1.5 nm) were obtained by MOS structures with gate dielectrics of AlxTiwOy and AlxTiwOyNz. Because of these results, nMOSFETs with Al gate electrode and AlxTiwOyNz gate dielectric were fabricated and characterized by I-V characteristic curves. nMOSFET electrical characteristics, such as transconductance of 380 µS and sub-threshold slope of 360 mV/dec, were obtained. These results indicate that the obtained AlxTiwOyNz and AlxTiwOy films are suitable gate insulators for the next generation (MOS) devices

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mos filmes finos semiconductors filmes finos - propriedades eletricas ultra-thin films high k electricals properties semicondutores

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