Aluminum oxynitride interfacial passivation layer for high-permittivity gate dielectric stack on gallium arsenide
- 13 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 89 (20), 202903
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2388246
Abstract
The authors demonstrate a passivation technique for GaAs substrate by employing an aluminum oxynitride (AlON) interfacial passivation layer. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy results show that the AlON interfacial passivation layer effectively suppresses the formation of Ga or As oxide during the gate dielectric deposition process. This enabled the fabrication of high quality GaAs -channel metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors with gate dielectric and TaN metal gate electrode. The metal gate/high- gate dielectric stack on GaAs demonstrated an equivalent thickness of and low leakage current density of at a gate bias equal to . Excellent capacitance-voltage characteristics with low frequency dispersion were also obtained.
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