Carrier transportation of rapid thermal annealed CeO2 gate dielectrics

Jer Chyi Wang*, Kuo Cheng Chiang, Tan Fu Lei, Chung Len Lee

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Abstract

We investigated the carrier transportation of ultrathin CeO2 gate dielectrics with rapid thermal annealing (RTA). After annealing, the effective oxide thickness was decreased and the characteristics were significantly improved. Temperature dependence of gate leakage current was studied and Frenkel-Poole dominated the conduction mechanism for low RTA temperature. As the annealing temperature increases, Fowler-Nordheim tunneling became much more important and the CeO2 /n-Si electron barrier height of 0.75 eV was extracted for future modeling and simulation. In addition, the energy band diagram of Al/CeO2 /n-Si structure was established for the first time.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3
Pages (from-to)E55-E57
JournalElectrochemical and Solid-State Letters
Volume7
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

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