Spatial distributions of trapping centers in HfO 2/SiO 2 gate stacks

Dawei Heh, Chadwin D. Young, George A. Brown, P. Y. Hung, Alain Diebold, Gennadi Bersuker, Eric M. Vogel, Joseph B. Bernstein

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Abstract

A methodology to analyze charge pumping (CP) data, which allows positions of probing traps in the dielectric to be identified, was applied to extract the spatial profile of traps in SiO2 HfO2 gate stacks. The results suggest that traps accessible by CP measurements in a wide frequency range, down to few kilohertz, are located within or near the interfacial SiO2 layer rather than in the bulk of the high- k film.

Original languageEnglish
Article number152907
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume88
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Apr 2006
Externally publishedYes

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