Probing band-tail states in silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor heterostructures with electron spin resonance
- 9 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 100 (2) , 023503
Abstract
We present an electron spin resonance (ESR) approach to characterize shallow electron trapping in band-tail states at Si/SiO2 interfaces in metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) devices and demonstrate it on two MOS devices fabricated at different laboratories. Despite displaying similar low temperature (4.2 K) peak mobilities, our ESR data reveal a significant difference in the Si/SiO2 interface quality of these two devices, specifically an order of magnitude difference in the number of shallow trapped charges at the Si/SiO2 interfaces. Thus, our ESR method allows a quantitative evaluation of the Si/SiO2 interface quality at low electron densities, where conventional mobility measurements are not possible.Keywords
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