Oxygen vacancies in high-k oxides
Oxygen vacancies in high-k oxides
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DOI:
10.1016/j.mee.2007.04.020
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发表时间:
2007-09-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Robertson, J.
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作者:
Tse, K.;Liu, D.;Robertson, J.
High dielectric constant (K) gate oxides such as HfO2 have suffered from charge trapping, threshold voltage shifts and a difficulty of metal or poly-Si gates to achieve band edge work function values. We investigate how these are related to the oxygen vacancies in a series of ab-initio calculations. The O vacancy is found to correlate with optical, luminescence and charge pumping spectra. The O vacancy contributes to the Fermi level pinning effect, which limits the band edge work functions. Inhibiting motion of vacancies may allow less pinning of gate electrode work functions.