工作职能
锡
材料科学
退火(玻璃)
原子层沉积
金属浇口
光电子学
薄膜
纳米尺度
MOSFET
结晶度
纳米技术
图层(电子)
栅氧化层
晶体管
冶金
电气工程
复合材料
电压
工程类
作者
Chun‐Yuan Wang,Chun‐Yi Chou,Han-Fang Shiue,Hsing-Yang Chen,Chen-Hsiang Ling,Jing‐Jong Shyue,Miin‐Jang Chen
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.152748
摘要
Tailoring the work function of metal gates at a low temperature is critical to the electronic performance of advanced nanoscale MOSFET devices. In this paper, the work function of TiN thin films is effectively altered by the atomic layer annealing (ALA) technique, i.e. the layer-by-layer, in-situ argon plasma treatment incorporated into each atomic layer deposition cycle. The density, stoichiometry, and crystallinity of TiN thin films can be significantly improved by the ALA treatment at a low temperature of only 300℃, which leads to a wide tunability of the work function from 4.52 to 4.03 eV of the TiN metal gate. The sufficiently low work function of 4.03 eV is highly favorable to the low power consumption in n-type MOSFETs. The result indicates that the ALA technique is an advantageous approach to modulating the physical and material properties of metal gates in nanoscale MOS devices by precise energy transfer with atomic-scale accuracy.
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