Investigations of silicon nano-crystal floating gate memories
Arvind Kumar, Jeffrey J. Welser, et al.
MRS Spring 2000
Thin epitaxial films of the high-κ perovskite SrHfO3 were grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Si(100) and investigated by ellipsometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to determine its band gap and valence band offset. Conducting AFM shows a good correlation between topography and current mapping, pointing to direct tunneling conduction. Long channels MOSFETs with low equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) were fabricated and their channel mobility measured. Mobility enhancement can be achieved by post processing annealing in various gases but at the cost of interfacial regrowth. An alternative approach is to increase mobility without changing EOT is by electrically stressing the gate dielectric at ∼150 °C. © 2007.
Arvind Kumar, Jeffrey J. Welser, et al.
MRS Spring 2000
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IEDM 1998
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Proceedings of SPIE 1989
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Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials