Project supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects,China(No.2006CB302704 );the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60776030)
A novel dry etching process of a poly-Si/TaN/HfSiON gate stack for advanced complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor(CMOS) devices is investigated.Our strategy to process a poly-Si/TaN/HfSiON gate stack is that each ...
Project supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project of China(No.2006CB302704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60776030)
The appropriate wet etch process for the selective removal of TaN on the HfSiON dielectric with an amorphous-silicon(a-Si) hardmask is presented.SCI(NH4OH:H2O2:H2O),which can achieve reasonable etch rates for me...
supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects(No.2006CB302704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60776030).
The wet etching properties ofa HfSiON high-k dielectric in HF-based solutions are investigated. HF-based solutions are the most promising wet chemistries for the removal of HfSiON, and etch selectivity of HF-based sol...
supported by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects(No.2006CB302704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60776030)
Wet-etch etchants and the TaN film method for dual-metal-gate integration are investigated. Both HF/HN O3/H2O and NH4OH/H2O2 solutions can etch TaN effectively, but poor selectivity to the gate dielectric for the HF/H...
supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (No. 2006CB302704) ;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60776030)
We investigate the thermal stability of HfTaON films prepared by physical vapor deposition using high resolution transmission electronic microscope (HRTEM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The results i...
supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No 2006CB302704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 60776030)
This paper presents a method using simple physical vapour deposition to form high-quality hafnium silicon oxynitride (HfSiON) on ultrathin SiO2 buffer layer. The gate dielectric with 10A (1A = 0.1 nm) equivalent o...