Comparison of charge trapping in undoped oxides made by low- and high-temperature deposition techniques

Charge trapping has been studied in a series of undoped low-pressure deposited oxides made using either silane and oxygen in a low-temperature oxidation (LTO) process or pure tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in a high-temperature process. The extent of charge trapping was determined by measuring the f...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on nuclear science 2001-12, Vol.48 (6), p.2107-2113
Main Authors: Mrstik, B.J., Hughes, H.L., Lawrence, R.K., McMarr, P.J., Gouker, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annealing
Boron
Carbon
Charge
Charge carrier processes
Deposition
Electron traps
Laboratories
Oxidation
Oxides
Paramagnetic materials
Paramagnetic resonance
Temperature
Trapping
Voltage
X-rays
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Summary:Charge trapping has been studied in a series of undoped low-pressure deposited oxides made using either silane and oxygen in a low-temperature oxidation (LTO) process or pure tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) in a high-temperature process. The extent of charge trapping was determined by measuring the flatband voltage shift /spl Delta/V/sub fb/, resulting from injection of either holes or electrons separately (using photo-assisted injection techniques) or from exposure to 10 keV X-rays, in which holes and electrons are simultaneously created in the oxide. It is found that hole trapping is similar in identically annealed LTO and TEOS oxides, but that electron trapping is much larger in the TEOS oxides. Electron trapping in TEOS oxides is also found to depend inversely on the electric field. These results are used to explain the observation that X-ray exposure results in much smaller changes in /spl Delta/V/sub fb/ in TEOS oxides than in LTO oxides at low applied fields, but to equivalent changes in /spl Delta/V/sub fb/ at high applied fields. O/sub 2/ anneals, but not N/sub 2/ anneals, are found to decrease the extent of electron trapping in the TEOS oxides, supporting previous suggestions that the electron traps result from carbon in the TEOS gas.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/23.983180