Fig. 1. (a) Structure diagram of MOS capacitor, and (b) equivalent circuit of the MOS capacitor.
Fig. 2. Photograph of Ti/Pt/Au metal electrode.
Fig. 3. AFM line scan of HfAlO/InAlAs surfaces of samples annealed at (a) 330 °C, (b) 380 °C, (c) 430 °C, and (d) 480 °C.
Fig. 4. RMS roughness value versus PDA temperature of the samples.
Fig. 5. XPS results after annealing processing of (a) As 3d, (b) Hf 4f, (c) Al 2p, (d) In 3d2/5.
Fig. 6. Interfacial oxide content under annealing temperatures of 280, 380, and 480 °C.
Fig. 7. The C–V characteristics of HfAlO/InAlAs MOS-capacitor at different annealing temperatures.
Fig. 8. Interfacial state density (Dit) of HfAlO/InAlAs MOS-capacitor with different annealing temperatures. (Et – Ei) indicates the distance from energy level of interface trap state (Et) to intrinsic Fermi level (Ei).
Fig. 9. Leakage current densities of HfAlO/InAlAs MOS-capacitor at different annealing temperatures.
Annealing temperature/°C | Cox/(μF/cm2) | EOT/nm | εox | CFB/(μF/cm2) | VFB/V | Vth/V |
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280 | 0.34 | 7.30 | 6.41 | 0.31 | 0.01 | 1.33 | 330 | 0.47 | 5.85 | 8.00 | 0.36 | 0.23 | 0.97 | 380 | 0.59 | 5.53 | 8.47 | 0.37 | 0.12 | 1.05 | 430 | 0.63 | 8.92 | 5.24 | 0.27 | 0.21 | 1.70 | 480 | 0.39 | 8.11 | 5.77 | 0.29 | 0.34 | 1.76 |
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Table 1. Electrical parameters extracted from C–V measurements for HfAlO/InAlAs MOS-capacitor with different annealing temperatures.