HfO2 gate dielectric with 0.5 nm equivalent oxide thickness Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Hafnium dioxide films have been deposited using reactive electron beam evaporation in oxygen on hydrogenated Si(100) surfaces. The capacitance-voltage curves of as-deposited metal(Ti)-insulator-semiconductor structures exhibited large hysteresis and frequency dispersion. With post-deposition annealing in hydrogen at 300C, the frequency dispersion decreased to less than 1%/decade, while the hysteresis was reduced to 20 mV at flatband. An equivalent oxide thickness of 0.5 nm was achieved for HfO2 thickness of 3.0 nm. We attribute this result to a combination of pristine hydrogen saturated silicon surfaces, room temperature dielectric deposition, and low temperature hydrogen annealing. 2002 American Institute of Physics.

published proceedings

  • Applied Physics Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Harris, H., Choi, K., Mehta, N., Chandolu, A., Biswas, N., Kipshidze, G., ... Temkin, H.

citation count

  • 72

complete list of authors

  • Harris, H||Choi, K||Mehta, N||Chandolu, A||Biswas, N||Kipshidze, G||Nikishin, S||Gangopadhyay, S||Temkin, H

publication date

  • August 2002