TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of post-deposition annealing on characteristics of Pt/Al2O3/β-Ga2O3 MOS capacitors
AU - Hirose, Masafumi
AU - Nabatame, Toshihide
AU - Yuge, Kazuya
AU - Maeda, Erika
AU - Ohi, Akihiko
AU - Ikeda, Naoki
AU - Irokawa, Yoshihiro
AU - Iwai, Hideo
AU - Yasufuku, Hideyuki
AU - Kawada, Satoshi
AU - Takahashi, Makoto
AU - Ito, Kazuhiro
AU - Koide, Yasuo
AU - Kiyono, Hajime
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) “Program for research and development of next-generation semiconductor to realize energy-saving society.” A part of this work was performed under the Cooperative Research Program of Institute for Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University. The author wish to thank the members of the nanofabrication group of the National Institute for Materials Science for their support during this study.
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - We investigated the influence of post-deposition annealing (PDA) temperature on the characteristics of Pt/Al2O3/n-β-Ga2O3 MOS capacitors. Electrical properties such as the flatband voltage (Vfb) shift, Vfb hysteresis, fixed charge (QIL), interface state density (Dit) and leakage current could be divided into two groups such as a low PDA temperature range below 600 °C and a high temperature range above 700 °C. The capacitors with a low PDA temperature exhibited superior electrical properties compared to the capacitors with a high PDA temperature, excluding leakage current property. We found that 700 °C is a critical PDA temperature because Al2O3 film starts to crystallize and solid-solution reaction of Al2O3 gate insulator and β-Ga2O3 substrate also occurs, resulting in Ga diffusion into the Al2O3 film and large roughness at Al2O3/β-Ga2O3 interface. These lead to a large Dit and positive Vfb shift at 700 °C. Even in a low PDA temperature range, it is clear that capacitor at 300 °C exhibited superior electrical properties of Vfb shift of −0.23 V, QIL of 4.1 × 1011 cm−2, and Dit (1.6 × 1012 eV−1 cm−2 at Ec-E = 0.4 eV). Based on these experimental data, lower PDA temperature of 300 °C is suitable.
AB - We investigated the influence of post-deposition annealing (PDA) temperature on the characteristics of Pt/Al2O3/n-β-Ga2O3 MOS capacitors. Electrical properties such as the flatband voltage (Vfb) shift, Vfb hysteresis, fixed charge (QIL), interface state density (Dit) and leakage current could be divided into two groups such as a low PDA temperature range below 600 °C and a high temperature range above 700 °C. The capacitors with a low PDA temperature exhibited superior electrical properties compared to the capacitors with a high PDA temperature, excluding leakage current property. We found that 700 °C is a critical PDA temperature because Al2O3 film starts to crystallize and solid-solution reaction of Al2O3 gate insulator and β-Ga2O3 substrate also occurs, resulting in Ga diffusion into the Al2O3 film and large roughness at Al2O3/β-Ga2O3 interface. These lead to a large Dit and positive Vfb shift at 700 °C. Even in a low PDA temperature range, it is clear that capacitor at 300 °C exhibited superior electrical properties of Vfb shift of −0.23 V, QIL of 4.1 × 1011 cm−2, and Dit (1.6 × 1012 eV−1 cm−2 at Ec-E = 0.4 eV). Based on these experimental data, lower PDA temperature of 300 °C is suitable.
KW - Al2O3
KW - Atomic layer deposition (ALD)
KW - MOSCAPs
KW - Postdeposition annealing (PDA)
KW - β-Ga2O3
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mee.2019.111040
DO - 10.1016/j.mee.2019.111040
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067563860
SN - 0167-9317
VL - 216
JO - Microelectronic Engineering
JF - Microelectronic Engineering
M1 - 111040
ER -