High-K materials and metal gates for CMOS applications

J Robertson, RM Wallace - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistors has led to the
silicon dioxide layer used as a gate dielectric becoming so thin that the gate leakage current …

High dielectric constant oxides

J Robertson - The European Physical Journal-Applied Physics, 2004 - cambridge.org
The scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistors has led to the
silicon dioxide layer used as a gate dielectric becoming so thin (1.4 nm) that its leakage …

Achieving a low-voltage, high-mobility IGZO transistor through an ALD-derived bilayer channel and a hafnia-based gate dielectric stack

MH Cho, CH Choi, HJ Seul, HC Cho… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ultrahigh-resolution displays for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications
require a novel architecture and process. Atomic-layer deposition (ALD) enables the facile …

High dielectric constant gate oxides for metal oxide Si transistors

J Robertson - Reports on progress in Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistors has led to the silicon
dioxide layer, used as a gate dielectric, being so thin (1.4 nm) that its leakage current is too …

Defects in ferroelectric HfO 2

A Chouprik, D Negrov, EY Tsymbal, A Zenkevich - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of ferroelectricity in polycrystalline thin films of doped HfO2 has reignited the
expectations of developing competitive ferroelectric non-volatile memory devices. To date, it …

Review on high-k dielectrics reliability issues

G Ribes, J Mitard, M Denais, S Bruyere… - … on Device and …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-k gate dielectrics, particularly Hf-based materials, are likely to be implemented in
CMOS advanced technologies. One of the important challenges in integrating these …

Defect energy levels in HfO2 high-dielectric-constant gate oxide

K Xiong, J Robertson, MC Gibson, SJ Clark - Applied physics letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
This letter presents calculations of the energy levels of the oxygen vacancy and oxygen
interstitial defects in HfO 2 using density functional methods that do not need an empirical …

Electronic properties of hafnium oxide: A contribution from defects and traps

VA Gritsenko, TV Perevalov, DR Islamov - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present article, we give a review of modern data and latest achievements pertaining to
the study of electronic properties of oxygen vacancies in hafnium oxide. Hafnium oxide is a …

Interfaces and defects of high-K oxides on silicon

J Robertson - Solid-State Electronics, 2005 - Elsevier
The properties of oxides with high-dielectric constant are being extensively studied for use
as gate oxides. The criteria for choosing such oxides is discussed. The bonding at Si–oxide …

Spectroscopic properties of oxygen vacancies in monoclinic calculated with periodic and embedded cluster density functional theory

D Muñoz Ramo, JL Gavartin, AL Shluger… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We have calculated the electronic structure and spectroscopic properties of the oxygen
vacancy in different charge states in the monoclinic phase of Hf O 2. Periodic and embedded …