Treatments for reliability improvement in thick oxides diffusion and gate replacement I/O transistors
by Romain Ritzenthaler; Moonju Cho; Tom Schram; Alessio Spessot; Eddy Simoen; Barry J. O'Sullivan; Eugenio Dentoni Litta; Naoto Horiguchi
International Journal of Materials Engineering Innovation (IJMATEI), Vol. 8, No. 1, 2017

Abstract: In this work, the negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) performance for HKMG and diffusion and gate replacement (D&GR) input/output (I/O) devices is investigated. Even though NBTI performances of D&GR transistors are aligned with conventional HKMG (high-k/metal gate) integration with thin oxide devices, it is not the case for thick oxide I/O devices. In particular, it is shown that strong lifetime degradation is observed as soon as high-k layers are deposited on top of the thick interfacial layer. The NBTI degradation is correlated to a diffusion of Ti/Hf (potentially Al) elements from the HKMG gate stack down to the interfacial layer. Directions for reliability improvement treatments are then defined. It is shown that decoupled plasma nitridation (DPN) and fluorine implant could greatly improve NBTI performance, through an improvement of interface and bulk (inside SiO2 interfacial layer) defect density. Device trade-offs are also investigated for the DPN treatments and fluorine implants cases.

Online publication date: Mon, 14-Aug-2017

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