Effect of nitridation on low-frequency (1/f) noise in n- and p-MOSFETS with HFO2 gate dielectrics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-24-2006

Abstract

The nitridation effects on low-frequency (1/f) noise in metallorganic chemical vapor deposited HfO2 n- and p-metal oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) are reported. Devices with a postdeposition anneal (PDA), performed after HfO2 deposition, in a N2 or NH3 ambient were investigated. A significant variation in noise was observed when different PDAs were employed. Devices annealed with N2 showed lower input referred noise SVG (∼ 125 μV 2/Hz) for |VG-VT| ∼ 0.1 V, close to the ITRS specifications when compared to NH3 anneals (∼ 1100 μV2/Hz). Carrier trapping is shown to be the origin of the 1/f fluctuations for most n-MOSFET process splits. For p-MOSFETs, no significant impact of the PDA was observed, yielding a constant SVG (∼ 200 μV2/Hz). Additionally, two types of interfacial layers were considered for n-MOSFETs, i.e., nitrided and non-nitrided interfaces, prepared by a decoupled plasma nitridation before HfO2 deposition. Different trap density profiles were derived from the noise spectra for the nitrided- and non-nitrided-interface n-MOSFETs. This suggests that nitridation can induce nitrogen-related defects which lead to a variation in the concentration of oxygen vacancies in the bulk HfO2. The binding configuration between the atoms may also play an important role. © 2006 The Electrochemical Society. All rights reserved.

Identifier

33750093903 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of the Electrochemical Society

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2216455

ISSN

00134651

First Page

G819

Last Page

G825

Issue

9

Volume

153

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