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Type of Document Dissertation Author Wheeler, Dana Charles URN etd-04222009-222210 Title High-k-InAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors formed by atomic-layer deposition Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Electrical Engineering Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Alan Seabaugh Committee Chair Greg Snider Committee Member Patrick Fay Committee Member Tom Kosel Committee Member Keywords
- III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor
- high-k gate dielectrics
- atomic-layer deposition
Date of Defense 2009-04-17 Availability unrestricted Abstract Atomic-layer deposition is used to grow HfO(2) and Al(2)O(3) thin films on InAs substrates to form high-k-InAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors. Devices are formed using various substrate pretreatments, film growth temperatures and thicknesses, contact metals, and post-metallization anneals. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and ellipsometry are used to physically characterize the films, while current-voltage and impedance measurements are used for electrical characterization. Hafnium dioxide films with equivalent silicon dioxide thicknesses as low as 0.76 nm are reported with leakage current densities as low as 9.2 x 10^(-2) A/cm^2 at +1 V gate bias. Interface trap densities are measured by the Terman method to be in the 10^13 cm^(-2)eV^(-1) range at midgap. TEM and XPS data suggest the high trap densities inthe HfO(2)-InAs capacitors are associated with an interfacial layer likely composed of native indium oxides. XPS measurements indicate that these oxides are not present after the Al(2)O(3) ALD process, eliminating a source of Fermi-level pinning and reducing the number of interface traps. The devices fabricated in this work are compared to other III-V MOS work and International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors performance targets to assess the viability of metal-high-k-InAs MOS gate stacks.
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