{"title":"EOT of 0.28 nm in MIM Capacitor With Laminated HfZrON and In-Situ NH3 and O2 Plasma Treatments","authors":"Huan Wu;Kuei-Shu Chang-Liao","doi":"10.1109/LED.2025.3584362","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A capacitance density (C) of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$12.1~\\mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>F/cm2, dielectric constant (k) of 55, equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of 0.28 nm, and leakage current density (J<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}_{\\text {g}}\\text {)}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$7.1^{\\ast } 10^{-{5}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> A/cm2 in a metal-insulator-metal capacitor (MIMCap) are obtained by using a laminated HfZrON (HZON) dielectric with suitable in-situ NH3 plasma treatments at heterogeneous interfaces and in-situ O2 plasma treatments during ZrO2 deposition. The high performance MIMCap could be attributed to the reduced interface states and oxygen vacancies in HZON dielectric. This laminated HZON is promising for decoupling capacitors in IC and DRAM applications.","PeriodicalId":13198,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Electron Device Letters","volume":"46 9","pages":"1529-1532"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Electron Device Letters","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11059892/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A capacitance density (C) of $12.1~\mu $ F/cm2, dielectric constant (k) of 55, equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of 0.28 nm, and leakage current density (J${}_{\text {g}}\text {)}$ of $7.1^{\ast } 10^{-{5}}$ A/cm2 in a metal-insulator-metal capacitor (MIMCap) are obtained by using a laminated HfZrON (HZON) dielectric with suitable in-situ NH3 plasma treatments at heterogeneous interfaces and in-situ O2 plasma treatments during ZrO2 deposition. The high performance MIMCap could be attributed to the reduced interface states and oxygen vacancies in HZON dielectric. This laminated HZON is promising for decoupling capacitors in IC and DRAM applications.
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IEEE Electron Device Letters publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors.