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Conard, Thierry, Franquet, Alexis, Vandervorst, Wifried, Reading, Michael, Van den Berg, Jakob, Van Elschocht, Sven, Schram, Tom, Adelmann, Christoph and De Gendt, Stefan (2008) Physical Characterization of the Metal/High-k Layer Interaction upon Annealing. ECS Transactions, 16 (5). pp. 433-442. ISSN 1938-5862
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The replacement of poly-silicon by metallic compounds in the gate stack leads to the search of metals with suitable work function. However, it is observed that thermal budget has a large influence on the effective work functions of several metals. In this paper, we investigated the possible modification of the chemical states by physical analysis techniques (XPS, XRR, MEIS, TOF-SIMS) by studying the chemistry of the high-k oxide/metal interface. We show that in the case of the TiN/TaN/HfO2/SiO2/Si stack, several modifications occur upon 1000oC N2 annealing: Increase of the nitrogen content of the TaN, interdiffusion of the Ti and TaN, and formation of Ta2O5 at the TaN/HfO2 interface.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
| Schools: | School of Applied Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Sharon Beastall |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2012 10:09 |
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2012 15:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12247 |
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