• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.9
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• pp.169-169
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• 2008

To keep pace with scaling trends of CMOS technologies, high-k metal oxides are to be introduced. Due to their high permittivity, high-k materials can achieve the required capacitance with stacks of higher physical thickness to reduce the leakage current through the scaled gate oxide, which make it become much more promising materials to instead of $SiO_2$. As further studying on high-k, an understanding of the relation between the etch characteristics of high-k dielectric materials and plasma properties is required for the low damaged removal process to match standard processing procedure. There are some reports on the dry etching of different high-k materials in ICP and ECR plasma with various plasma parameters, such as different gas combinations ($Cl_2$, $Cl_2/BCl_3$, $Cl_2$/Ar, $SF_6$/Ar, and $CH_4/H_2$/Ar etc). Understanding of the complex behavior of particles at surfaces requires detailed knowledge of both macroscopic and microscopic processes that take place; also certain processes depend critically on temperature and gas pressure. The choice of $BCl_3$ as the chemically active gas results from the fact that it is widely used for the etching o the materials covered by the native oxides due to the effective extraction of oxygen in the form of $BCl_xO_y$ compounds. In this study, the surface reactions and the etch rate of $Al_2O_3$ films in $BCl_3/Cl_2$/Ar plasma were investigated in an inductively coupled plasma(ICP) reactor in terms of the gas mixing ratio, RF power, DC bias and chamber pressure. The variations of relative volume densities for the particles were measured with optical emission spectroscopy (OES). The surface imagination was measured by AFM and SEM. The chemical states of film was investigated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), which confirmed the existence of nonvolatile etch byproducts.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.258-262
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• 2000

$YMnO_3$박막은 고주파 스퍼터를 사용하여 Si(100)과 $Y_2O_3$/si(100)기판에 증착하였다. 증착시에 산소 분압의 조건과 열처리 온도는 YMnO$_3$ 박막의 결정성과 그 메모리 윈도우의 특성에 매우 중요한 영향을 주었다. XRD 측정 결과 산소 분압 0%에서 증착후 $870^{\circ}C$에서 1시간 동안 후열처리한 $YMnO_3$ 박막은 c-축을 따라 매우 잘 배향되었음을 확인하였다. 반면 산소분압 20%에서 Si(100)과 $Y_2O_3$/Si(100) 기판위에 증착된 $YMnO_3$박막의 결정화는 XRD측정 결과 $Y_2$O$_3$ peak가 보이는 것으로 보아 YMnO$_3$박막내에 과잉의 $Y_2O_3$가 c-축으로의 배향을 억제하는 것을 알 수 있다. 특히 산소분압 0%에서 증착한 Pt/$YMnO_3/Y_2O_3$/Si 구조에서의 메모리 윈도우 특성은 c-축으로 잘 배향된 결과로 인해 인가전압 2~12V에서 0.67-3.65V이었으며 이는 $Y_2O_3$/si 기판위에 산소분압 20%에서 증착한 박막 (0.19~1.21V)보다 동일한 인가전압에서 3배 정도의 큰 메모리 윈도우 특성을 보였다.