SIMPLIFIED CLOSED-FORM TRAP-ASSISTED TUNNELING MODEL APPLIED TO NITRIDED OXIDE DIELECTRIC CAPACITORS

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FLEISCHER, S [1 ]
LAI, PT [1 ]
CHENG, YC [1 ]
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[1] CITY POLYTECH HONG KONG,HONG KONG,HONG KONG
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10.1063/1.351923
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Conduction has been studied in ultrathin nitrided oxide, re-oxidized nitrided oxide, and nitrogen-annealed nitrided oxide film capacitors in which the nitridation step was performed by a low-partial-pressure nitridation technique. Results indicate that, as well as some degree of barrier lowering due to the build-up of nitrogen at the injecting interface, a trap-assisted mechanism could be responsible for the enhanced conduction exhibited by the nitrided oxide devices. A simplified closed-form trap-assisted tunneling model is employed that produces a fit to the data with a trap depth of 2.1 eV. The difference between this trap model and a model requiring numerical integration was negligibly small (approximately 2%).
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