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Polysilazane Precursor Used for Formation of Oxidized Insulator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Yuji Urabe
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2-24-16, nakacho, koganei-shi, N/A, Japan
Toshiyuki Sameshima
Affiliation:
[email protected], Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16, nakacho, koganei-shi, N/A, Japan
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Abstract

We report on SiO2 film formation using Polysilazane precursor treated with remote oxygen plasma and high-pressure H2O vapor heating. Polysilazane precursor films with a thickness of 130 nm were formed on silicon substrates by spin coating method. They were annealed at 350°C in remote oxygen plasma at a pressure of 2.0×10−2 Pa and a 13.56×106 Hz radio frequency power of 300 W for 3h followed by 1.3×106-Pa-H2O vapor heating at 260°C for 3 h. Polysilazane precursor films were entirely oxidized by high-pressure H2O vapor heat treatment, and the density of Si-N bonding and Si-H bonding in Polysilazane precursor films were effectively dissociated by the combination of high-pressure H2O vapor heat treatment with remote oxygen plasma treatment. While MOS(Metal-Oxide-semiconductor) capacitors fabricated only by high-pressure H2O vapor heat treatment had a high specific dielectric constant of 6.1, a fixed oxide charge density of 1.3×1012 cm−2 and a density of interface trap of 5.4×1011 cm−2eV−1, the remote oxygen plasma treatment followed by high-pressure H2O vapor heat treatment allowed us to reduce them to 4.1 and 1.6×1011 cm−2, 4.2×1010 cm−2eV−1, respectively.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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