摘要:
Silicon dioxide insulating films for integrated circuits are provided with enhanced electronic properties, including enhanced dielectric break-down of MOS insulating layers and reduced trapping of holes by exposing a metal oxide semiconductor wafer including an exposed silicon dioxide layer, in an ambient of flowing oxygen gas, to heating radiation from a halogen lamp for a duration on the order of 100 seconds to achieve annealing temperature on the order of 1000C. For reduced hole trapping, the ambient gas is oxygen and the annealing temperature is on the order of 1000C for a duration on the order of 100 seconds, depending on the oxide thickness. Nitrogen, occurring at the silicon-silicon dioxide interface as a result of previous processing including a long anneal in nitrogen, increases the improvement of the silicon dioxide by the subsequent rapid thermal annealing in oxygen.
摘要:
The device comprises a single crystal floating electrode (32) of undoped silicon, two dual electron injector structures (33, 34), two injector electrodes (31), a control electrode (35) and a sense electrode (36). Each structure (33, 34) comprises two silicon-rich silicon dioxide layers sandwiching a layer of silicon dioxide. The outer electrodes can be for example doped polysilicon. The capacitance of the device is varied by changing the number of electrons present in the floating electrode using the electrodes (31) and the structures (33, 34). Readout uses electrodes (35, 36).
摘要:
A system for fabricating an ultra-thin composite dielectric, usable for the capacitor in DRAM and in other integrated circuits, involving the deposition, a LPCVD tube, of a nitride (3) in situ on a very thin LPCVD oxide (2). By re-oxidizing the nitride (3) or depositing a LPCVD oxide layer (4, 4′) in situ thereon, a composite ONO dielectric, having very low defect density and good overall electric properties, of less than 10 nm in thickness and as low as 4.5 nm, may be formed.
摘要:
Silicon dioxide insulating films for integrated circuits are provided with enhanced electronic properties, including enhanced dielectric break-down of MOS insulating layers and reduced trapping of holes by exposing a metal oxide semiconductor wafer including an exposed silicon dioxide layer, in an ambient of flowing oxygen gas, to heating radiation from a halogen lamp for a duration on the order of 100 seconds to achieve annealing temperature on the order of 1000C. For reduced hole trapping, the ambient gas is oxygen and the annealing temperature is on the order of 1000C for a duration on the order of 100 seconds, depending on the oxide thickness. Nitrogen, occurring at the silicon-silicon dioxide interface as a result of previous processing including a long anneal in nitrogen, increases the improvement of the silicon dioxide by the subsequent rapid thermal annealing in oxygen.
摘要:
The device comprises a single crystal floating electrode (32) of undoped silicon, two dual electron injector structures (33, 34), two injector electrodes (31), a control electrode (35) and a sense electrode (36). Each structure (33, 34) comprises two silicon-rich silicon dioxide layers sandwiching a layer of silicon dioxide. The outer electrodes can be for example doped polysilicon. The capacitance of the device is varied by changing the number of electrons present in the floating electrode using the electrodes (31) and the structures (33, 34). Readout uses electrodes (35, 36).