• DocumentCode
    745358
  • Title

    PVD HfO2 for high-precision MIM capacitor applications

  • Author

    Sun Jung Kim ; Byung Jin Cho ; Ming Fu Li ; Xiongfei Yu ; Chunxiang Zhu ; Chin, A. ; Dim-Lee Kwong

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  • Volume
    24
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    387
  • Lastpage
    389
  • Abstract
    Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors are fabricated using sputtered HfO2 with Ta and TaN for top and bottom electrodes, respectively. High-capacitance densities from 4.7 to 8.1 fF/μm2 have been achieved while maintaining the leakage current densities around 1 × 10/sup -8/ A/cm2 within the normal circuit bias conditions. A guideline for the insulator thickness and its dielectric constant has been obtained by analyzing the tradeoff between the linearity coefficient and the capacitance density.
  • Keywords
    MIM devices; dielectric thin films; hafnium compounds; leakage currents; permittivity; sputtered coatings; tantalum; tantalum compounds; thin film capacitors; PVD HfO/sub 2/; Ta top electrode; Ta-HfO/sub 2/-TaN; TaN bottom electrode; capacitance density; dielectric constant; high-precision MIM capacitor applications; insulator thickness; leakage current densities; linearity coefficient; sputtered HfO/sub 2/; Atherosclerosis; Circuits; Dielectric constant; Dielectrics and electrical insulation; Electrodes; Guidelines; Hafnium oxide; Leakage current; MIM capacitors; Metal-insulator structures;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Device Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0741-3106
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LED.2003.813381
  • Filename
    1213865