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Metal Transport and Loss in Hafnium and Lanthanum Aluminate Films on Si Hampered by Thermal Nitridation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Leonardo Miotti
Affiliation:
miotti@if.ufrgs.br, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Física, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil, 55 51 33166485, 55 51 33166510
Carlos Driemeier
Affiliation:
driemeier@if.ufrgs.br, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Física, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil
Felipe Tatsch
Affiliation:
felipe2111@yahoo.com.br, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Física, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil
Cláudio Radtke
Affiliation:
claudiao33@yahoo.com.br, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Pós-Graduação em Microeletrônica, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil
Israel Jacob Rabin Baumvol
Affiliation:
israel@if.ufrgs.br, CCET and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Física, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91509-900, Brazil
Edon Vincent
Affiliation:
vincent.edon@pgp.u-psud.fr, Université Paris Sud, Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Orsay, N/A, 91405, France
Marie Christine Hugon
Affiliation:
Marie-Christine.Hugon@pgp.u-psud.fr, Université Paris Sud, Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Orsay, N/A, 91405, France
Bernard Agius
Affiliation:
bernard.agius@pgp.u-psud.fr, Université Paris Sud, Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Orsay, N/A, 91405, France
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Abstract

The effects on metal transport and loss in Hf and La aluminate films deposited on Si induced by rapid thermal annealing at 1000°C were investigated. Decomposition of HfAlO films on Si during rapid thermal annealing was reveled by the decrease of the Hf and Al contents. Metal loss from LaAlO/Si structures was also observed following annealing in vacuum, while strong metal transport and interfacial reaction were induced by annealing in a O2 containing atmosphere. These instabilities were hampered by means of post deposition thermal nitridation in NH3 at temperatures lower than 1000°C performed before the rapid thermal annealing step. The role of nitridation is discussed in terms of the N profiles in the nitrided structures.

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