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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2014.51.3.177

Fluorine Effects on CMOS Transistors in WSix-Dual Poly Gate Structure  

Choi, Deuk-Sung (Dept. of Electronic & Information Engineering, YNC)
Jeong, Seung-Hyun (Dept. of Electronic & Information Engineering, YNC)
Choi, Kang-Sik (Memory R&D Divison, SK Hynix)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.51, no.3, 2014 , pp. 177-184 More about this Journal
Abstract
In chemical vapor deposition(CVD) tungsten silicide(WSix) dual poly gate(DPG) scheme, we observed the fluorine effects on gate oxide using the electrical and physical measurements. It is found that in fluorine-rich WSix NMOS transistors, the gate thickness decreases as gate length is reduced, and it intensifies the roll-off properties of transistor. This is because the fluorine diffuses laterally from WSix to the gate sidewall oxide in addition to its vertical diffusion to the gate oxide during gate re-oxidation process. When the channel length is very small, the gate oxide thickness is further reduced due to a relative increase of the lateral diffusion than the vertical diffusion. In PMOS transistors, it is observed that boron of background dopoing in $p^+$ poly retards fluorine diffusion into the gate oxide. Thus, it is suppressed the fluorine effects on gate oxide thickness with the channel length dependency.
Keywords
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD); Tungsten Silicide (WSix); Dual Poly Gate (DPG); Fluorine; Dichlorosiline (DCS); Monosilane (MS); Diffusion; NMOS; PMOS;
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