https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/581015
標題: | Schottky Barrier Height Modulation of Metal/n-GeSn Contacts Featuring Low Contact Resistivity by in Situ Chemical Vapor Deposition Doping and NiGeSn Alloy Formation | 作者: | Chuang Y Liu C.-Y Kao H.-S Tien K.-Y Luo G.-L Li J.-Y. JIUN-YUN LI |
關鍵字: | Chemical vapor deposition; CMOS integrated circuits; Energy gap; Extraction; Fermi level; Hall mobility; Hole mobility; MOS devices; Oxide semiconductors; Schottky barrier diodes; Semiconductor alloys; Semiconductor metal boundaries; Surface treatment; Tin; Complementary metal oxide semiconductors; Contact resistivities; High-performance logic applications; Schottky barrier height modulation; Schottky barrier heights; Schottky characteristics; Transmission line modeling; Valence-band maximums; Semiconductor doping | 公開日期: | 2021 | 卷: | 3 | 期: | 3 | 起(迄)頁: | 1334-1340 | 來源出版物: | ACS Applied Electronic Materials | 摘要: | GeSn complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices have attracted much attention for future VLSI technology nodes due to high carrier mobility. However, Fermi-level pinning in metal/n-GeSn contacts leads to high contact resistivity and limits GeSn CMOS devices for high-performance logic applications. In this work, we investigate Schottky characteristics and contact resistivity in the metal/n-GeSn contacts. High-quality n-GeSn layers were epitaxially grown by chemical vapor deposition with an in situ doping technique with a high carrier activation rate of 73% up to a doping concentration of ?1.3 × 1020 cm-3. The electron Schottky barrier heights of the metal/n-GeSn contacts with different Sn fractions and metal work functions were extracted by an I-T method. The results show that the Fermi level is pinned at an energy level slightly above the valence band maximum. The Schottky barrier height is highly correlated with the GeSn band gap energy and decreases with the Sn fraction. The contact resistivity of the metal/n-Ge0.9Sn0.1 contacts was extracted by a refined transmission line model and effectively reduced by increasing the doping concentration in the n-GeSn films. A post-metal annealing step at 400 °C was performed to further reduce the Schottky barrier height by forming NiGeSn alloys. A record low contact resistivity of ?1.5 × 10-7 ω·cm2 is achieved without any surface treatment. This is attributed to the reduced Schottky barrier height by increasing the Sn fraction in the n-GeSn film and the reduced Schottky barrier width due to the high carrier density achieved by in situ doping. ? |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103470039&doi=10.1021%2facsaelm.0c01108&partnerID=40&md5=5f1bc6555e29e4bb0d8cb4455a1db06b https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/581015 |
ISSN: | 26376113 | DOI: | 10.1021/acsaelm.0c01108 |
顯示於: | 電機工程學系 |
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