中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (12): 127703-127703.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab4e7e

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Improved interfacial properties of HfGdON gate dielectric Ge MOS capacitor by optimizing Gd content

Lin Zhou(周琳), Lu Liu(刘璐), Yu-Heng Deng(邓煜恒), Chun-Xia Li(李春霞), Jing-Ping Xu(徐静平)   

  1. 1 School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
    2 Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen 518172, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-07-05 修回日期:2019-09-24 出版日期:2019-12-05 发布日期:2019-12-05
  • 通讯作者: Jing-Ping Xu E-mail:jpxu@hust.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB2200500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61851406 and 61274112).

Improved interfacial properties of HfGdON gate dielectric Ge MOS capacitor by optimizing Gd content

Lin Zhou(周琳)1, Lu Liu(刘璐)1, Yu-Heng Deng(邓煜恒)1, Chun-Xia Li(李春霞)2, Jing-Ping Xu(徐静平)1   

  1. 1 School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
    2 Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen 518172, China
  • Received:2019-07-05 Revised:2019-09-24 Online:2019-12-05 Published:2019-12-05
  • Contact: Jing-Ping Xu E-mail:jpxu@hust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB2200500) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61851406 and 61274112).

摘要: High-quality dielectric/Ge interface and low gate leakage current are crucial issues for high-performance nanoscaled Ge-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device. In this paper, the interfacial and electrical properties of high-k HfGdON/LaTaON stacked gate dielectric Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors with different gadolinium (Gd) contents are investigated. Experimental results show that when the controlling Gd content is a suitable value (e.g.,~13.16%), excellent device performances can be achieved:low interface-state density (6.93×1011 cm-2·eV-1), small flatband voltage (0.25 V), good capacitance-voltage behavior, small frequency dispersion, and low gate leakage current (2.29×10-6 A/cm2 at Vg=Vfb + 1 V). These could be attributed to the repair of oxygen vacancies, the increase of conduction band offset, and the suppression of germanate and suboxide GeOx at/near the high k/Ge interface by doping suitable Gd into HfON.

关键词: Ge MOS devices, HfGdON dielectric, interface quality, leakage current density

Abstract: High-quality dielectric/Ge interface and low gate leakage current are crucial issues for high-performance nanoscaled Ge-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device. In this paper, the interfacial and electrical properties of high-k HfGdON/LaTaON stacked gate dielectric Ge metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors with different gadolinium (Gd) contents are investigated. Experimental results show that when the controlling Gd content is a suitable value (e.g.,~13.16%), excellent device performances can be achieved:low interface-state density (6.93×1011 cm-2·eV-1), small flatband voltage (0.25 V), good capacitance-voltage behavior, small frequency dispersion, and low gate leakage current (2.29×10-6 A/cm2 at Vg=Vfb + 1 V). These could be attributed to the repair of oxygen vacancies, the increase of conduction band offset, and the suppression of germanate and suboxide GeOx at/near the high k/Ge interface by doping suitable Gd into HfON.

Key words: Ge MOS devices, HfGdON dielectric, interface quality, leakage current density

中图分类号: 

  • 77.55.D-
77.55.dj (For nonsilicon electronics (Ge, III-V, II-VI, organic electronics)) 81.15.-z (Methods of deposition of films and coatings; film growth and epitaxy)