Photoemission and ab initio theoretical study of interface and film formation during epitaxial growth and annealing of praseodymium oxide on Si(001)

被引:94
作者
Fissel, A [1 ]
Dabrowski, J [1 ]
Osten, HJ [1 ]
机构
[1] IHP, D-15236 Frankfurt, Germany
关键词
D O I
10.1063/1.1471943
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was performed to study the formation process of Pr2O3/Si(001) interfaces and films during epitaxial growth and postgrowth annealing. A significant shift in the Pr and O core-level binding energy was found accompanied by an analogous shift in the Pr2O3 valence band maximum. This shift depends on the oxide layer thickness and interface structure, as indicated by ab initio pseudopotential calculations. It is caused by interface dipoles in the Si/Pr2O3 interface region due to the accumulation of oxygen. Besides providing a insight into the growth mechanism and interface properties of high-K dielectrics on Si, our results also demonstrate the usefulness of in vacuo XPS for investigating epitaxial growth processes. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
引用
收藏
页码:8986 / 8991
页数:6
相关论文
共 39 条
[1]   PSEUDOPOTENTIALS THAT WORK - FROM H TO PU [J].
BACHELET, GB ;
HAMANN, DR ;
SCHLUTER, M .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1982, 26 (08) :4199-4228
[2]   MANY-BODY EFFECTS IN PRASEODYMIUM CORE-LEVEL SPECTROSCOPIES OF PRO2 [J].
BIANCONI, A ;
KOTANI, A ;
OKADA, K ;
GIORGI, R ;
GARGANO, A ;
MARCELLI, A ;
MIYAHARA, T .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1988, 38 (05) :3433-3437
[3]   Density-functional theory calculations for poly-atomic systems: electronic structure, static and elastic properties and ab initio molecular dynamics [J].
Bockstedte, M ;
Kley, A ;
Neugebauer, J ;
Scheffler, M .
COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS, 1997, 107 (1-3) :187-222
[4]   GROUND-STATE OF THE ELECTRON-GAS BY A STOCHASTIC METHOD [J].
CEPERLEY, DM ;
ALDER, BJ .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1980, 45 (07) :566-569
[5]   Formation of a stratified lanthanum silicate dielectric by reaction with Si(001) [J].
Copel, M ;
Cartier, E ;
Ross, FM .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2001, 78 (11) :1607-1609
[6]  
COPEL M, 2001, APPL PHYS LETT, V78, P368
[7]   Pseudopotential study of PrO2 and HfO2 in fluorite phase [J].
Dabrowski, J ;
Zavodinsky, V ;
Fleszar, A .
MICROELECTRONICS RELIABILITY, 2001, 41 (07) :1093-1096
[8]   Field effect transistors with SrTiO3 gate dielectric on Si [J].
Eisenbeiser, K ;
Finder, JM ;
Yu, Z ;
Ramdani, J ;
Curless, JA ;
Hallmark, JA ;
Droopad, R ;
Ooms, WJ ;
Salem, L ;
Bradshaw, S ;
Overgaard, CD .
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2000, 76 (10) :1324-1326
[9]  
FISSEL A, UNPUB
[10]   Ultrathin (<4 nm) SiO2 and Si-O-N gate dielectric layers for silicon microelectronics:: Understanding the processing, structure, and physical and electrical limits [J].
Green, ML ;
Gusev, EP ;
Degraeve, R ;
Garfunkel, EL .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 2001, 90 (05) :2057-2121