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Bei Chen - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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This letter evaluates Ru and W capping layers for MoTa metal gate electrodes in MOS capacitor applications. The authors report that the oxygen diffusion from the capping layer plays an important role in determining the MoTa alloy effective work function value on SiO/sub 2/. A MoTa alloy metal gate with Ru capping exhibits stable effective work function up to 900/spl deg/C annealing but is not stab...Show More
We present two new ternary alloy silicides with tunable work function ranging between 4.27eV to 4.7eV and 4.8eV to 5.0eV respectively for dual metal gate CMOS applications. NixTa1-xSi gates were investigated for NMOS and NixPt1-xSi gates were investigated for PMOS applications on SiO2, HfO 2 and HfSiOx dielectrics. A large degree of tuning was observed on SiO2 however the tuning range decreased as...Show More
The effective work function of PMOS metal gate electrode as a function of intentionally altered HfO2 surfaces was investigated. The impact of capping layers, diffusion barriers and interfacial layers on the final work function was also examined. The factors responsible for the change in the effective work function after subsequent thermal treatments were identified and routes to maintain the high ...Show More
This paper describes a metal gate process, which provides tunable work function values and ease of integration for dual metal gate process flow. Vertical stacks of Ru and Ta layers were subjected to high temperature anneals to promote intermixing which resulted in /spl phi//sub m/ tuning. It was found that Ru/Ta stacks provided up to 0.4 eV reduction in /spl phi//sub m/ compared to Ru. To increase...Show More