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@PHDTHESIS{Schfer:283566,
author = {Schäfer, Anna},
title = {{G}rowth and characterization of crystalline rare-earth
based thin oxide films for the application as gate
dielectric in nanotechnology},
volume = {46},
school = {RWTH Aachen},
type = {Dr.},
address = {Jülich},
publisher = {Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-01880},
isbn = {978-3-95806-111-8},
series = {Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Information
/ Information},
pages = {xiii, 157 S.},
year = {2015},
note = {RWTH Aachen, Diss., 2015},
abstract = {For standard metal oxides semiconductor (MOS) field effect
transistors (FETs), but also for any other MOS based device
appropriate gate dielectrics are needed. Such dielectrics,
usually oxides, need to exhibit good layer quality and
stability, good insulating properties and typically high
permittivities. The aim of this work is to develop new
oxides for the use in standard Si transistors on the one
hand and for GaN based devices such as high electron
mobility transistors on the other hand. For Si MOSFETs a
standard atomic layer deposition (ALD) HfO$_{2}$ process is
extended to dope HfO$_{2}$ with Al and Lu. After process
optimization Hf$_{0.89}$Al$_{0.11}$O$_{2-\Delta}$ and
Hf$_{0.8}$Lu$_{0.2}$O$_{2-\Delta}$ transform into a
polycrystalline layer with large fractions of a high $\
kappa$ phase of HfO$_{2}$, most probably the cubic one, and
exhibit permittivities of 30 and 33, respectively. All
layers are smooth, the density of interface traps hardly
changes due to doping and leakage current densities for
Hf$_{0.8}$Lu$_{0.2}$O$_{2-\Delta}$ are as low as
10$^{0}8$A/cm$^{2}$ for an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.5
nm. For the application on GaN, crystalline GdScO$_{3}$ and
LaLuO$_{3}$ are investigated. Calculations on GdScO$_{3}$
reveal that the orthorhombic and cubic form of GdScO$_{3}$
have almost equal energies of formation while a hexagonal
crystal has a 500 eV per formula unit enhanced energy. Even
though the energy of formation is fairly high, the novel
hexagonal forms of GdScO$_{3}$ and LaLuO$_{3}$ could be
stabilized by pulsed laser deposition on GaN and on
Y$_{2}$O$_{3}$ on Si(111) which is used as alternative
growth template with hexagonal geometry. Thus the nature of
the substrate (polar/ non-polar) apparently determines the
structure of the oxide formed. Further analysis shows that
the two growth templates can promote the hexagonal or the
cubic forms of GdScO$_{3}$ and LaLuO$_{3}$ depending on
growth temperature and Y$_{2}$O$_{3}$ layer thickness.
Relative permittivities of approximately 26 are extracted
for both hexagonal GdScO$_{3}$ and hexagonal LaLuO$_{3}$.
All known phases of the two oxides have band gaps above 5 eV
which is important for the use as gate dielectric, e.g. to
minimize tunneling currents. Current voltage measurements
reveal leakage current densities of 1.2 X 10$^{-8}$
Acm$^{-2}$ at 1V for $\textit{EOT}$ = 3nm and a dielectric
breakdown above 2MVcm$^{-1}$ for hexagonal GdScO$_{3}$ on
GaN.},
cin = {PGI-9},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-9-20110106},
pnm = {521 - Controlling Electron Charge-Based Phenomena
(POF3-521)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-521},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/283566},
}