Abstract
The electrical characteristics of thin gate dielectrics prepared by low temperature (850 °C) two-step N2O nitridation (LTN) process are presented. The gate oxides were grown by wet oxidation at 800 °C and then annealed in N2O at 850 °C. The oxide with N2O anneal, even for low temperature (850 °C), had nitrogen incorporation at oxide/silicon interface. The charge trapping phenomena and interface-state generation (ΔDitm) induced by constant current stressing were reduced and charge-to-breakdown (Qbd) under constant current stressing was increased. This LTN oxynitride was used as gate dielectric for N-channel MOSFET, whose hot-carrier immunity was shown improved and reverse short channel effect (RSCE) was suppressed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 405-408 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings |
| Volume | 428 |
| State | Published - 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1996 MRS Spring Symposium - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: 08 04 1996 → 11 04 1996 |