EFFECT OF INTERFACIAL HYDROGEN IN COSI2/SI(100) SCHOTTKY-BARRIER CONTACTS

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作者
ABOELFOTOH, MO
MARWICK, AD
FREEOUF, JL
机构
[1] IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 49卷 / 15期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.49.10753
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We have studied the effect of hydrogen in the CoSi2/Si(100) interface on the Schottky-barrier height of CoSi2 on n-type and p-type Si(100). It was found that hydrogenation results in an increase of 120 meV in the barrier height to n-type Si(100). Measurements of the hydrogen concentration in the interface, using quantitative ion-beam techniques, were used to establish the correlation between the change in barrier height and hydrogen concentration; other hydrogen effects such as passivation of shallow donor and acceptor impurities in silicon were ruled out. The results demonstrate that 8 X 10(15) hydrogen atoms/cm2 can alter an interface layer and thereby change the pinning position of the Fermi level.
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页码:10753 / 10756
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