DEGRADATION AND BREAKDOWN OF SILICON DIOXIDE FILMS ON SILICON

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DIMARIA, DJ
ARNOLD, D
CARTIER, E
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[1] IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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10.1063/1.108233
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Destructive breakdown in silicon dioxide is shown to be strongly correlated to the oxide degradation caused by hot-electron-induced defect production and charge trapping near the interfaces of the films. Two well-defined transitions in the charge-to-breakdown data as a function of field and oxide thickness are shown to coincide with the onset of trap creation and impact ionization by electrons with energies exceeding 2 and 9 eV, respectively.
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