Study on changes in the structure of HfSiO and HfSiON dielectrics with different annealing temperature by photoelectron spectroscopy

We have investigated changes of the structure for HfSiO and HfSiON film with different annealing temperature by photoelectron spectroscopy. Core level photoelectron spectra have revealed the mechanism of metallization reaction at the bottom interface between the HfSiO(N) film and Si substrate under vacuum annealing. Silicidation action occurs by annealing at 850 and 900 °C for HfSiO and HfSiON film, respectively, indicating the incorporation of nitrogen enhances the thermal stability. By annealing at 900 °C, metallization reaction is rapidly promoted for the HfSiO film. For HfSiON film, Hf-nitride clusters or Hf-nitride layer and metal-silicide are formed at the bottom and upper interface, respectively, upon annealing at 950 °C.     

A high performance HfSiON/TaN NMOSFET fabricated using a gate-last process

A gate-last process for fabricating HfSiON/TaN n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect transistors(NMOSFETs)is presented.In the process,a HfSiON gate dielectric with an equivalent oxide thickness of 10 A was prepared by a simple physical vapor deposition method.Poly-Si was deposited on the HfSiON gate dielectric as a dummy gate.After the source/drain formation,the poly-Si dummy gate was removed by tetramethylammonium hydroxide(TMAH)wet-etching and replaced by a TaN metal gate.Because the metal gate was formed after the ion-implant doping activation process,the effects of the high temperature process on the metal gate were avoided.The fabricated device exhibits good electrical characteristics,including good driving ability and excellent sub-threshold characteristics.The device’s gate length is 73 nm,the driving current is 117μA/μm under power supply voltages of VGS=VDS=1.5 V and the off-state current is only 4.4 nA/μm.The lower effective work function of TaN on HfSiON gives the device a suitable threshold voltage(~0.24 V)for high performance NMOSFETs.The device’s excellent performance indicates that this novel gate-last process is practical for fabricating high performance MOSFETs.     

Comparative studies of Ge and Si p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors with HfSiON dielectric and TaN metal gate

Ge and Si p-channel metal--oxide--semiconductor field-effect-transistors (p-MOSFETs) with hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) gate dielectric and tantalum nitride (TaN) metal gate are fabricated. Self-isolated ring-type transistor structures with two masks are employed. W/TaN metal stacks are used as gate electrode and shadow masks of source/drain implantation separately. Capacitance--voltage curve hysteresis of Ge metal--oxide--semiconductor (MOS) capacitors may be caused by charge trapping centres in GeO7340Q, 7325http://cpb.iphy.ac.cn/CN/10.1088/1674-1056/19/5/057302https://cpb.iphy.ac.cn/CN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=111774Ge substrate, transistor, HfSiON, hole mobilityProject supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.~2006CB302704).Ge and Si p-channel metal--oxide--semiconductor field-effect-transistors (p-MOSFETs) with hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) gate dielectric and tantalum nitride (TaN) metal gate are fabricated. Self-isolated ring-type transistor structures with two masks are employed. W/TaN metal stacks are used as gate electrode and shadow masks of source/drain implantation separately. Capacitance--voltage curve hysteresis of Ge metal--oxide--semiconductor (MOS) capacitors may be caused by charge trapping centres in GeO$_{x}$ ($1Ge;substrate;transistor;HfSiON;hole;mobilityGe and Si p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors(p-MOSFETs) with hafnium silicon oxynitride(HfSiON) gate dielectric and tantalum nitride(TaN) metal gate are fabricated.Self-isolated ring-type transistor structures with two masks are employed.W/TaN metal stacks are used as gate electrode and shadow masks of source/drain implantation separately.Capacitance-voltage curve hysteresis of Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor(MOS) capacitors may be caused by charge trapping centres in GeOx(1 < x < 2).Effective hole mobilities of Ge and Si transistors are extracted by using a channel conductance method.The peak hole mobilities of Si and Ge transistors are 33.4 cm2/(V.s) and 81.0 cm2/(V.s),respectively.Ge transistor has a hole mobility 2.4 times higher than that of Si control sample.     

Characteristics of high-quality HfSiON gate dielectric prepared by physical vapour deposition

This paper presents a method using simple physical vapour deposition to form high-quality hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) on ultrathin SiO₂ buffer layer. The gate dielectric with 10? (1?= 0.1 nm) equivalent oxide thickness is obtained. The experimental results indicate that the prepared HfSiON gate dielectric exhibits good physical and electrical characteristics, including very good thermal stability up to 1000℃, excellent interface properties, high dielectric constant (k=14) and low gate-leakage current (I_g=1.9×10^-3A/cm² @V_g=V_fb-1V for EOT of 10?). TaN metal gate electrode is integrated with the HfSiON gate dielectric.The effective work function of TaN on HfSiON is 4.3eV, meeting the requirements of NMOS for the metal gate. And, the impacts of sputtering ambient and annealing temperature on the electrical properties of HfSiON gate dielectric are investigated.