IMPROVEMENT OF HOT-ELECTRON-INDUCED DEGRADATION IN MOS CAPACITORS BY REPEATED IRRADIATION-THEN-ANNEAL TREATMENTS

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HWU, JG
CHEN, JT
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[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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10.1109/55.46935
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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The SiO2/Si interface degradation due to hot-electron injection from silicon has been dramatically Improved by repeated irradiation-then-anneal treatments. Each treatment includes an irradiation of Co-60 with a total dose of 106 rd (SiO2) and an anneal in N2 for 10 min successively. It is found that the sensitivity to hot-electron-induced damage decreases gradually as the number of irradiation-then-anneal treatments increases. After three such treatments the MOS capacitor shows excellent behavior in terms of its hardness to hot-electron-induced degradation. © 1990 IEEE
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