• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.83-88
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• 2005

The interface-states between the top silicon layer and buried oxide layer of nano-SOI substrate were developed. Also, the effects of thermal treatment processes on the interface-state distributions were investigated for the first time by using pseudo-MOSFETs. We found that the interface-state distributions were strongly influenced by the thermal treatment processes. The interface-states were generated by the rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. Increasing the RTA temperature over $800^{\circ}C$, the interface-state density considerably increased. Especially, a peak of interface-states distribution that contributes a hump phenomenon of subthreshold curve in the inversion mode operation of pseudo-MOSFETs was observed at the conduction band side of the energy gap, hut it was not observed in the accumulation mode operation. On the other hand, the increased interface-state density by the RTA process was effectively reduced by the relatively low temperature annealing process in a conventional thermal annealing (CTA) process.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.199-203
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• 2008

$O_2$ 플라즈마를 이용한 표면처리 공정이 Bio-FET (biologically sensitive field-effect transistor)에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 위하여, SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) wafer와 sSOI (strained- Si-on-Insulator) wafer를 이용하여 pseudo-MOSFET을 제작하고 $O_2$ 플라즈마를 이용하여 표면처리를 진행하였다. 제작된 시료들은 back gated metal contact junction 방식으로 측정되었다. $I_D-V_G$ 특성과 field effect mobility 특성의 관찰을 통하여 $O_2$ 플라즈마 표면처리에 따른 각 시료들의 전기적 특성 변화에 대하여 관찰하였다. 그리고 $O_2$ 플라즈마 표면처리 과정에서 플라즈마에 의한 손상을 받은 시료들은 2% 수소희석가스 ($H_2/N_2$)를 이용한 후속 열처리 공정을 진행한 후 전기적 특성이 향상되는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 이는 수소희석가스를 이용한 후속 열처리 공정을 통하여 산화막과 Si 사이의 계면 준위와 산화막 내부의 전하 포획 준위를 감소시켰기 때문이다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.487-487
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• 2013

According to shrinkage of transistor, interface traps have been recognized as a major factor which limits the process development in manufacturing industry. The traps occur through spontaneous generation process, and spread into the forbidden band. There is a large change of current though a few traps are existed at the Si-SiO2 interface. Moreover, the increased temperature largely affects to the leakage current due to the interface trap. For this reason, we made an effort to find out the relationship between temperature and interface trap. The subthreshold swing (SS) was investigated to confirm the correlation. The simulated results show that the sphere of influence of trap is enlarged according to increase in temperature. To investigate the relationship between thermal energy and surface potential, we extracted the average surface potential and thermal energy (kT) according to the temperature. Despite an error rate of 6.5%, change rates of both thermal energy and average surface potential resemble each other in many ways. This allows that SS is affected by the trap within the range of the thermal energy from the surface energy.