InGaAs QW-MOSFET Performance Improvement Using a PEALD-AlN Passivation Layer and an In-Situ NH3 Post Remote-Plasma Treatment

Po Chun Chang; Quang Ho Luc; Yueh Chin Lin; Yen Ku Lin; Chia Hsun Wu; Simon M. Sze; Edward Yi Chang

doi:10.1109/LED.2017.2656180

InGaAs QW-MOSFET Performance Improvement Using a PEALD-AlN Passivation Layer and an In-Situ NH₃ Post Remote-Plasma Treatment

Po Chun Chang, Quang Ho Luc, Yueh Chin Lin, Yen Ku Lin, Chia Hsun Wu, Simon M. Sze, Edward Yi Chang^*

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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In this letter, we report on the impact of a PEALD-AlN interfacial passivation layer (IPL) and an in-situ NH₃ post remote-plasma (PRP) treatment onto InGaAs quantum-well MOSFETs with Ti/HfO₂/InGaAs gate stack. Transistors with gate lengths down to 80 nm have been fabricated and characterized. Due to the excellent interfacial quality of HfO₂/AlN/InGaAs, the subthreshold swing and the peak effective channel mobility have been improved to 93 mV/decade and 4253 cm²/Vs, respectively. The drain current has also shown a 4.6-fold enhancement, to 164mA/mm(I_OFF = 100 nA/μmandV _DD =0.5V),compared with the HfO₂ control device. The results also show that the HfO₂/AlN device exhibits better immunity to short-channel effects (SCEs) than the HfO₂ control device. Furthermore, during positive bias temperature instability stress, a smaller VTH and a lower G_m were observed for the sample with an AlN IPL and NH₃ PRP treatment, indicating that it is more reliable than the sample without any IPL or plasma treatment.

Original language	English
Article number	7828073
Pages (from-to)	310-313
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Electron Device Letters
Volume	38
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2017.2656180
State	Published - 1 Mar 2017

Keywords

AlN
high-κ dielectric
interfacial passivation layer (IPL)
NH plasma treatment
plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD)
Quantum-well MOSFET (QW-MOSFET)

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Chang, P. C., Luc, Q. H., Lin, Y. C., Lin, Y. K., Wu, C. H., Sze, S. M., & Chang, E. Y. (2017). InGaAs QW-MOSFET Performance Improvement Using a PEALD-AlN Passivation Layer and an In-Situ NH₃ Post Remote-Plasma Treatment. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 38(3), 310-313. [7828073]. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2017.2656180

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InGaAs QW-MOSFET Performance Improvement Using a PEALD-AlN Passivation Layer and an In-Situ NH₃ Post Remote-Plasma Treatment. / Chang, Po Chun; Luc, Quang Ho; Lin, Yueh Chin; Lin, Yen Ku; Wu, Chia Hsun; Sze, Simon M.; Chang, Edward Yi.

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