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Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Vol.156, No.8, H621-H624, 2009
Platinum Silicided p-Type Schottky Barrier Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors Using Silicidation Through Oxide Technique
We investigated the electrical and structural properties of p-type Schottky barrier metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (SB-MOSFETs), which were fabricated using platinum (Pt) silicidation through an oxide technique coupled with rapid thermal annealing or furnace annealing process. The furnace-annealed SB-MOSFETs showed a larger on/off current ratio (>10(6)) with a lower reverse leakage current level (< 10(-8) mu A/mu m) compared with the rapid-thermal-annealed ones. The superior device performance of the furnace-annealed SB-MOSFETs could be attributed to the smooth surface morphology and excellent interface uniformity of PtSi films in source/drain regions, caused by a densified SiOx interlayer to effectively control the Pt flux toward the silicon-on-insulator film.
Keywords:densification;MOSFET;platinum compounds;rapid thermal annealing;Schottky barriers;silicon-on-insulator;surface morphology;thin films