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High-Pressure Deuterium Annealing for Trap Passivation for a 3-D Integrated Structure
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on. 71(4):2801-2804 Apr, 2024
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Thin film transistors
Passivation
Annealing
Logic gates
Silicon
MOSFET
Dielectrics
3-D architecture
border trap density (Nbt)
forming gas annealing (FGA)
high-pressure deuterium annealing (HPDA)
interface trap density (Nit)
low-frequency noise (LFN)
monolithic integration
ON-state current (ION)
passivation
subthreshold swing (SS)
Language
ISSN
0018-9383
1557-9646
Abstract
High-pressure deuterium annealing (HPDA) and forming gas annealing (FGA) were applied to monolithically and vertically integrated MOSFETs with a 3-D architecture of one over the other. An overlying poly-Si thin-film transistor (TFT) is positioned over an underlying MOSFET onto a wafer of silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The effects of HPDA and FGA on these double-stacked MOSFETs were quantitatively analyzed by extracting the interface trap density ( ${N}_{{\text {it}}}$ ) from dc I–V characteristics and border trap density ( ${N}_{{\text {bt}}}$ ) through low-frequency noise (LFN) measurements. The performance index parameters, such as subthreshold swing (SS) and ON-state current ( ${I}_{{\text {ON}}}$ ), were also comparatively analyzed. It has been confirmed that, for the superjacent MOSFET, HPDA reduced ${N}_{{\text {it}}}$ by 250% and ${N}_{{\text {bt}}}$ by 92% compared to FGA. Additionally, for the subjacent MOSFET, HPDA decreased ${N}_{{\text {it}}}$ by 15% and ${N}_{{\text {bt}}}$ by 32% compared to FGA.