• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2008

Aluminum oxide films were deposited on n-type GaN substrates by RF magnetron sputtering technique for MIS devices applications using optimized conditions, Well-behaved C - V characteristics were obtained measured in MIS capacitors structures. The calculated interface trap density measured at $300^{\circ}C$ was about $9\times10^{10}/cm^2$ eV in the upper bandgap. The gate leakage current densities of the MIS structures were about $10^{-9}A/cm^2$ and about $10^{-4}A/cm^2$ measured at room temperature and at $300^{\circ}C$ for $a{\pm}1MV/cm$, respectively. These results indicate that the interface property of this structure is enough quality to MIS devices applications.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.262-263
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• 2008

The Metal-Insulator-Silicon (MIS) capacitors with $SiO_2$ and high-k dielectric were investigated. The high-k dielectrics were obtained by atomic layer deposit (ALD) system. The electrical characteristics were investigated by measuring the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. The conduction mechanisms were analyzed by using the Fowler-Nordheim (FN) plot and Direct Tunneling (DT) plot. As a result, the MIS capacitors with high-k dielectrics have lower leakage current densities than conventional tunnel-barrier with $SiO_2$ dielectrics.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.48-52
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• 2017

In this study, we used I-V spectroscopy, photoconductivity (PC) yield and internal photoemission (IPE) yield using IPE spectroscopy to characterize the Schottky barrier heights (SBH) at insulator-semiconductor interfaces of Pt/$HfO_2$/p-type Si metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) capacitors. The leakage current characteristics of the MIS capacitor were analyzed according to the J-V and C-V curves. The leakage current behavior of the capacitors, which depends on the applied electric field, can be described using the Poole-Frenkel (P-F) emission, trap assisted tunneling (TAT), and direct tunneling (DT) models. The leakage current transport mechanism is controlled by the trap level energy depth of $HfO_2$. In order to further study the SBH and the electronic tunneling mechanism, the internal photoemission (IPE) yield was measured and analyzed. We obtained the SBH values of the Pt/$HfO_2$/p-type Si for use in Fowler plots in the square and cubic root IPE yield spectra curves. At the Pt/$HfO_2$/p-type Si interface, the SBH difference, which depends on the electrical potential, is related to (1) the work function (WF) difference and between the Pt and p-type Si and (2) the sub-gap defect state features (density and energy) in the given dielectric.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.709-715
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• 1990

SiO2 films were nitrided by tungsten-halogen heated rapid thermal annealing in ammonia gas at temperatures of 900-1100\ulcorner for 15-180sec. The nitroxide films were analyzed using Auger electron spectroscopy. MIS caapcitors were fabricated using these films as gate insulators. I-V and C-V characteristics of MIS capacitors were investigated. The AES depth profiles of nitroxide film show that the nitrogen rich layer is, at the early stage of nitridation, formed at the surface of nitroxide film and near the interface between nitroxide and silicon. Nitridation of SiO2 makes the film have a larger effective average refractive index. The thermal nitridation of SiO2 on silicon causes the flatband voltage shift due to the change of the fixed charge density. It is found that the dominant conduction mechanism in nitroxide is Fowler-Nordheim tunneling. Rapid thermal nitridation of 200\ulcornerSiO2 on silicon results in an improvement in the dielectric breakdown electric field.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.977-982
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• 2005

Al/AlN/n-type 6H-SiC (0001) MIS structures were prepared by AlN layers on vicinal 6H-SiC(0001) substrates with reactive RF magnetron sputtering method. The AlN films were annealed at $900^{\circ}C$, $N_2$ atmosphere lot 1 minutes showed the best result. With XRD analysis, AlN(0002) peak was clearly found. The typical dielectric constant value of the AlN film in the MIS capacitors was obtained as 8.4 from photo C-V. Also, the gate leakage current density of the MlS capacitor was $10^{-10}\;A/cm^2$ order within the electric field of 1.8 MV/cm. Finally, the amount of interface trap densities, $D_{it}$, was evaluated as $5.3\times10^{10}\;eV^{-1}cm^{-2}$ at (Ec-0.85) eV.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.4 No.1
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• pp.319-322
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• 2003

To match the charge induced by the insulators $CeO_2$ with the remanent polarization of ferro electric SBT thin films, areas of Pt/SBT/Pt (MFM) and those of $Pt/CeO_2/Si$ (MIS) capacitors were ind ependently designed. The area $S_M$ of MIS capacitors to the area $S_F$ of MFM capacitors were varied from 1 to 10, 15, and 20. Top electrode Pt and SBT layers were etched with for various area ratios of $S_M\;/\;S_F$. Bottom electrode Pt and $CeO_2$ layers were respectively deposited by do and rf sputtering in-situ process. SBT thin film were prepared by the metal orgnic decomposition (MOD) technique. $Pt(100nm)/SBT(350nm)/Pt(300nm)/CeO_2(40nm)/p-Si$ (MFMIS) gate structures have been fabricated with the various $S_M\;/\;S_F$ ratios using inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching (ICP-RIE). The leakage current density of MFMIS gate structures were improved to $6.32{\times}10^{-7}\;A/cm^2$ at the applied gate voltage of 10 V. It is shown that in the memory window increase with the area ratio $S_M\;/\;S_F$ of the MFMIS structures and a larger memory window of 3 V can be obtained for a voltage sweep of ${\pm}9\;V$ for MFMIS structures with an area ratio $S_M\;/\;S_F\;=\;6$ than that of 0.9 V of MFS at the same applied voltage. The maximum memory windows of MFMIS structures were 2.28 V, 3.35 V, and 3.7 V with the are a ratios 1, 2, and 6 at the applied gate voltage of 11 V, respectively. It is concluded that ferroelectric gate capacitors of MFMIS are good candidates for nondestructive readout-nonvolatile memories.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.470-475
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• 2009

We deposited $Al_2O_3$ thin films on GaN by remote plasma atomic layer deposition (RPALD) technique, trimethylaluminum(TMA) and oxygen were used as precursors, at fixed process condition, the number of cycle were changed. Growth rate per cycle was $1.2\;{\AA}$/cycle. and Growth rate was in proportion to a number of cycle, the GaN MIS capacitors that $Al_2O_3$ thin film were deposited above 12 nm, have excellent electrical properties, a low electrical leakage current density(${\sim}10^{-10}\;A/cm^2$ at 1.5 MV), but below 12 nm, we can see the degradation of the leakage current density. After post deposition annealing, Dielectric constant was estimated by 1 MHz high-frequency C-V method, it was varied with the anealing temperature from 6.9 at no post anealed to 7.6 at $800^{\circ}C$, and we can see a improvement of the leakage current density and breakdown voltage by post deposition anealing below $700^{\circ}C$, but, after anealed at $800^{\circ}C$, we can see the degradation of the leakage current density and breakdown voltage.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2006년도 영호남 합동 학술대회 및 춘계학술대회 논문집 센서 박막 기술교육
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• pp.152-155
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• 2006

Carbon nitride ($CN_X$) films were prepared by reactive RF magnetron sputtering system at various deposition conditions and the C-V characteristics of MIS(metal - insulator - semiconductor) capacitors that have the structures of Al/$CN_x$/p-Si/Al and Al/$CN_x$/$Si_3N_4$/p-Si/Al were investigated. The resistivity of carbon nitride was above $2.40{\times}10^8{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ at room temperature. The C-V plot showed a typical capacitance-voltage characteristics of semiconductor insulating layers, while it showed hysterisis due to interface charges. Amorphous carbon nitride (a-$CN_x$) films, that have relatively high resistivity and low dielectric constant could be useful as interlayer insulator materials of VLSI(very large-scale integration) and ULSI(ultra large-scale integration).

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권8호
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• pp.1401-1405
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• 2010

We have successfully demonstrated of metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) capacitors with $HfO_2$/p-Si structures. The $HfO_2$ film was grown at $200^{\circ}C$ on H-terminated Si wafer by atomic layer deposition (ALD) system. TEMAHf and $H_2O$ were used as the hafnium and oxygen sources. A cycle of the deposition process consisted of 0.1 s of TEMAHf pulse, 10 s of $N_2$ purge, 0.1 s of $H_2O$ pulse, and 60 s of $N_2$ purge. The 5 nm thick $HfO_2$ layer prepared on Si substrate by ALD exhibited excellent electrical properties, including low leakage currents, no mobile charges, and a good interface with Si.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(2)
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• pp.221-224
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• 2000

We have successfully demonstrated metal-ferroel-ectric-insulator-semiconductor (MFIS) devices using Al/LiNbO$_{3}$/SiN/Si structure. The SiN thin films were made into metal -insulator- semiconductor (MIS) devices by thermal evaporation of aluminum source in a dot away on the surface. The interface property of MFIS from 1MHz & quasistatic C-V is good and the memory window width is about 1.5V at 0.2V/s signal voltage sweep rate. The gate leakage current density of MFIS capacitors using a aluminum electrode showed the least value of 1x10$^{-8}$ A/$\textrm{cm}^2$ order at the electric field of 300㎸/cm. And the XRD patterns shows the probability of applications of LN for MFIS devices for FeRAMs on amorphous SiN buffer layer.