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Open AccessUltra-fast switching memristors based on two-dimensional materials
The ability to scale two-dimensional (2D) material thickness down to a single monolayer presents a promising opportunity to realize high-speed energy-efficient memristors. Here, we report an ultra-fast memrist...
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Fundamentals of Metal-Oxide Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)
Detailed operational and switching characteristics for metal-oxide resistive random access memory (RRAM) are presented, along with materials/vacancy engineering ramifications for the switching operations. The ...
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Toward reliable RRAM performance: macro- and micro-analysis of operation processes
Resistive random access memory (RRAM) technology promises superior performance and scalability while employing well-developed fabrication processes. Conductance in insulating oxides employed in RRAM devices ca...
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Characterizing Defects Responsible for Charge Transport Characteristics at Interfaces of Nano-Thick Materials Stacks
Major functioning blocks in modern devices employed in a variety of applications (electronics, energy harvesting, sensors, etc.) comprise of stacks of nm-thin layers of dielectric materials in contact with con...
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Pioneering Application of Corona Charge-Kelvin Probe Metrology to Noncontact Characterization of In0.53 Ga0.47 As/Al2O3/HfO2 Stack
We report the first successful application of corona charging noncontact C-V and I-V metrology to interface and dielectric characterization of high-k/III-V structures. The metrology, which has been commonly us...
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PBTI in High-k Oxides
Interaction of different materials in the multilayer high-k/metal gate stacks results in the formation of structural defects in the high-k dielectric and interfacial SiO2 layer. This section discusses the impact ...
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Reliability Implications of Fast and Slow Degradation Processes in High-k Gate Stacks
Aggressive transistor scaling to achieve better chip functionality is driving the introduction of high-k dielectric materials into traditional device gate stacks. These advanced gate stacks are multilayer stru...
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Challenges in Integrating the High-K Gate Dielectric Film to the Conventional Cmos Process Flow
ZrO2 and HfO2 and their alloys with SiO2 are currently among the leading high-k materials for replacing SiOxNy as the gate dielectric for the sub-100 nm technology nodes. International SEMATECH (ISMT) is currentl...
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Physical and Electrical Characterization of Hafnium Silicate Thin Films
Evaluation of physically thicker gate insulator materials with significantly higher dielectric constants (k = 10 − 25) as potential replacements for silicon dioxide, SiO2 (k = 3.9), and silicon oxynitride continu...
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Requirements of Oxides as Gate Dielectricsfor CMOS Devices
Analysis of fundamental material properties of the d-electron-based high-k dielectrics, which are under consideration for the application as gate dielectrics, indicates that this class of materials has serious li...
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Novel Dielectric Materials for Future Transistor Generations
Responding to the market growth for computational power in various applications, semiconductor technology continues unabated in its drive toward higher transistor densities and faster transistors. The general ...
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Computational Design of Silicon Suboxides: Chemical and Mechanical Forces on the Atomic Scale
Silicon suboxides play an important role in different industrial applications, particularly in the form of the Si–SiO2 interface, which is one of the key elements in present day microelectronics and potentially i...
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TRANSIENT CHARGING EFFECTS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO THE RELIABILITY OF HIGH-K DIELECTRICS
Unlike SiO2-based devices, various structural defects and small band gaps in high-κ gate dielectrics make high-κ devices susceptible to electron charging. In particular, fast transient charging in high-κ devices ...
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STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION AND ORDER AT INTERFACES OF CRYSTALLINE OXIDES AND OTHER HIGH-K MATERIALS ON SILICON
High-resolution medium energy ion scattering (MEIS) was used to investigate structure, composition and defects in amorphous and crystalline oxides, and their interface with silicon. Isotopic oxygen reactions w...
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Physical and Electrical Characterization of Hafnium Silicate Thin Films
Evaluation of physically thicker gate insulator materials with significantly higher dielectric constants (k = 10 – 25) as potential replacements for silicon dioxide, SiO2 (k = 3.9), and silicon oxynitride continu...
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Experimental Observations of the Redistribution of Implanted Nitrogen at the Si-SiO2 Interface During RTA Processing
The redistribution of nitrogen from silicon to the Si-SiO2 interface due to thermal processing is investigated by Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS) using Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) capacitors. SIMS prof...
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Electroplated Cu Recrystallization in Damascene Structures at Elevated Temperatures
Transformations in electroplated Cu films from a fine to course grain crystal structure (average grain sizes went from ∼0.1 µm to several microns) were observed to strongly depend on film thickness and geometr...