Stacked gate insulator of photooxide and PECVD film from SiH4 and N2O for low-temperature poly-Si thin-film transistor

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作者
Nakata, Y [1 ]
Okamoto, T [1 ]
Itoga, T [1 ]
Hamada, T [1 ]
Ishii, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] Sharp Corp, Tenri, Nara 6328567, Japan
来源
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN JAPAN PART II-ELECTRONICS | 2003年 / 86卷 / 11期
关键词
polycrystalline Si; thin-film transistor; gate insulator film; photooxidation; oxidation;
D O I
10.1002/ecjb.10100
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A stacked gate insulator consisting of photooxide and PECVD film prepared from SiH4 and N2O for use in low-temperature poly-Si thin-film transistors has been developed. The rate of photooxidation using a Xe excimer lamp is the same for (100) and (111) single-crystal Si wafers, and SiO2 with good coverage of the poly-Si can be formed by photooxidation. By applying low-RF power conditions, under which the ion impact damage is smaller, the interface trap density can be improved in a thin oxide film with a thickness of several nanometers. When a PECVD film is formed from SiH4 and N2O, N is accumulated in the SiO2/Si surface, but the surface N can be reduced if the film is formed at the surface by oxidation. In the stacked gate insulator film consisting of photooxide and PECVD films constructed under these, conditions, a good SiO2/Si interface with an interface trap density of 2 to 3 x 10(10) cm(-2) eV(-1) can be formed by photooxidation with a substrate temperature of 200 to 300 degreesC. This interface trap density is equivalent to that of a thermal oxidation film formed at 950 degreesC, and is an improvement of approximately 1/10 compared to the PECVD film. The constructed stacked gate insulator film exhibited a flat-band voltage shift in reliability tests. This is attributed to hole traps produced by N taken up by the SiO2 film during the formation of the PECVD film. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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