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Polycrystalline Sil-x-yGex.Cy for Suppression of Boron Penetration in PMOS Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

C. L. Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. [email protected]
J. C. Sturm
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
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Abstract

We have fabricated polycrystalline Sil-x-yGexCy by Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition and used it as part of a polycrystalline gate structure for PMOS devices. The results showed that the use of carbon in polycrystalline Sil-x-yGexCy suppressed boron penetration across the gate oxide. No effects of gate depletion with the use of poly-Sil-x-yGexCy were observed. Our work suggests that the addition of carbon reduced the chemical potential of boron in Sil-x-yGexCy, which deterred boron from diffusing across the underlying gate oxide.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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