Electrical characterization of Ru-and RuO2/Ta2O5 gate stacks for nanoscale DRAM technology

Autor: Albena Paskaleva, M. Tapajna, Karol Fröhlich, E. Atanassova, Kristína Hušeková, Edmund Dobročka
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: 2008 International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems.
DOI: 10.1109/asdam.2008.4743334
Popis: Electrical properties of metal-oxide-semiconductor structures composed of MOCVD grown Ru or RuO2 metal gates, rf sputtered Ta2O5 oxide layers, and nitrided Si was investigated. The dielectric constant of Ta2O5 as extracted from capacitance-voltage characteristics was found to be 24 and 28 for Ru and RuO2 gated structures, respectively. Interfacial SiO2-like layer with a thickness of ~2 nm was observed from X-ray reflectivity analysis. The effective work functions of Ru and RuO2 in contact with Ta2O5 were found to be 4.65 and 4.8 eV, respectively. Temperature dependent current-voltage measurements indicate the transition from the Pool-Frenkel emission (or thermionic field emission) to the field emission conduction mechanism in combination with the direct tunneling across the SiO2-like interfacial layer under gate as well as substrate injection.
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