Recent progress in ab initio simulations of hafnia-based gate stacks

H Zhu, C Tang, LRC Fonseca, R Ramprasad - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - Springer
The continuous size downscaling of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)
transistors has led to the replacement of SiO 2 with a HfO 2-based high dielectric constant …

Recent applications of hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

C Weiland, AK Rumaiz, P Pianetta… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Recent applications of hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) demonstrate its
many capabilities in addition to several of its limitations. Examples are given, including …

Performance calculations of the X-ray powder diffraction beamline at NSLS-II

X Shi, S Ghose, E Dooryhee - Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2013 - journals.iucr.org
The X-ray Powder Diffraction (XPD) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II is a
multi-purpose high-energy X-ray diffraction beamline with high throughput and high …

Charging phenomena in dielectric/semiconductor heterostructures during x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements

M Perego, G Seguini - Journal of Applied Physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The determination of the valence band offset (VBO) by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
(XPS) is commonly performed using the so-called Kraut's method that was developed for …

Effect of Surface Passivation on Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Performance of WO3 Vertical Plate-Like Films

Y Yang, R Xie, Y Liu, J Li, W Li - Catalysts, 2015 - mdpi.com
WO3 vertical plate-like arrays provide a direct pathway for charge transport, and thus hold
great potential as working electrodes for photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting …

Multi-technique x-ray and optical characterization of crystalline phase, texture, and electronic structure of atomic layer deposited Hf1− xZrxO2 gate dielectrics …

R Vasić, S Consiglio, RD Clark, K Tapily… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A multi-technique approach was used to determine the crystalline phase, texture, and
electronic structure of Hf 1− x Zr x O 2 (x= 0–1) high-k gate dielectric thin films grown by …

Annealing dependence of diamond-metal Schottky barrier heights probed by hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

M Gaowei, EM Muller, AK Rumaiz, C Weiland… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was applied to investigate the diamond-metal
Schottky barrier heights for several metals and diamond surface terminations. The position …

NIST high throughput variable kinetic energy hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy facility

C Weiland, AK Rumaiz, P Lysaght, B Karlin… - Journal of Electron …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present an overview of the National Institute of Standards and Technology beamline
X24A at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Lab and recent work …

Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and electrical characterization study of the surface potential in metal/AlO/GaAs(100) metal-oxide-semiconductor structures

LA Walsh, G Hughes, J Lin, PK Hurley… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) has been used to study metal-oxide-
semiconductor (MOS) structures fabricated with both high (Ni) and low (Al) work-function …

Band alignment in Ge/GeOx/HfO2/TiO2 heterojunctions as measured by hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

AK Rumaiz, JC Woicik, C Weiland, Q Xie… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the interlayer (IL) thickness dependence of band offsets in a germanium
based bilayer metal-oxide-semiconductor sandwich with an amorphous plasma enhanced …