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Interface Roughness Effects in Ultra-Thin Tunneling Oxides

Ting, D. Z.-Y.
Daniel, Erik S.
McGill, T. C.
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Abstract

Advanced MOSFET for ULSI and novel silicon-based devices require the use of ultrathin tunneling oxides where non-uniformity is often present. We report on our theoretical study of how tunneling properties of ultra-thin oxides are affected by roughness at the silicon/oxide interface. The effect of rough interfacial topography is accounted for by using the Planar Supercell Stack Method (PSSM) which can accurately and efficiently compute scattering properties of 3D supercell structures. Our results indicate that while interface roughness effects can be substantial in the direct tunneling regime, they are less important in the Fowler-Nordheim regime.

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© 1998 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The authors would like to thank O.J. Marsh for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Grant No. N00014-92-J-1845, and by the ROC National Science Council under Grant No. NSC 86-2112-M-007-001. Special Issue: Fifth International Workshop on Computational Electronics, University of Notre Dame, 28-30 May 1997, VLSI Design 8(1-4) 1998.

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