Detection of oxygen vacancy defect states in capacitors with ultrathin Ta2O5 films by zero-bias thermally stimulated current spectroscopy
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- 6 October 2003
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 83 (14) , 2835-2837
Abstract
Defect state D (0.8 eV) was experimentally detected in Ta2O5 capacitors with ultrathin (physical thickness <10 nm) Ta2O5 films using zero-bias thermally stimulated current spectroscopy and correlated with leakage current. Defect state D can be more efficiently suppressed by using N2O rapid thermal annealing (RTA) instead of using O2 RTA for postdeposition annealing and by using TiN instead of Al for top electrode. We believe that defect D is probably the first ionization level of the oxygen vacancy deep double donor. Other important defects are Si/O-vacancy complex single donors and C/O-vacancy complex single donors.Keywords
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