Dielectric breakdown of oxide films in electronic devices

A Padovani, P La Torraca, J Strand, L Larcher… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Dielectric breakdown is a sudden and catastrophic increase in the conductivity of an
insulator caused by electrical stress. It is one of the major reliability issues in electronic …

A Physical Model of the Temperature Dependence of the Current Through Stacks

L Vandelli, A Padovani, L Larcher… - … on Electron Devices, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of the defects responsible for the leakage
current in the SiO 2 and SiO 2/HfO 2 gate dielectric stacks in a wide temperature range (6 K …

Electric field cycling behavior of ferroelectric hafnium oxide

T Schenk, U Schroeder, M Pešić… - … applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
HfO2 based ferroelectrics are lead-free, simple binary oxides with nonperovskite structure
and low permittivity. They just recently started attracting attention of theoretical groups in the …

[图书][B] Sintering: mechanisms of convention nanodensification and field assisted processes

R Castro, K Van Benthem - 2012 - books.google.com
Sintering process studies have re-emerged strongly in the past decade due to extensive
discussions about the stabilization of nanoparticles and nanostructures, and the …

Perspective on ferroelectric, hafnium oxide based transistors for digital beyond von-Neumann computing

ET Breyer, H Mulaosmanovic, T Mikolajick… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Ferroelectric hafnium oxide (HfO 2) has been extensively studied for over a decade,
especially as a CMOS-compatible material in emerging memory applications. Most recently …

Effects of TiN Top Electrode Texturing on Ferroelectricity in Hf1–xZrxO2

R Athle, AEO Persson, A Irish, H Menon… - … applied materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ferroelectric memories based on hafnium oxide are an attractive alternative to conventional
memory technologies due to their scalability and energy efficiency. However, there are still …

Towards interdependencies of aging mechanisms

H Amrouch, VM van Santen, T Ebi… - 2014 IEEE/ACM …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With technology in deep nano scale, the susceptibility of transistors to various aging
mechanisms such as Negative/Positive Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI/PBTI) and Hot …

Microscopic modeling of electrical stress-induced breakdown in poly-crystalline hafnium oxide dielectrics

L Vandelli, A Padovani, L Larcher… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a quantitative physical model describing degradation of poly-crystalline HfO 2
dielectrics subjected to electrical stress culminating in the dielectric breakdown (BD). The …

Accurate model for time-dependent dielectric breakdown of high-k metal gate stacks

T Nigam, A Kerber, P Peumans - 2009 IEEE International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) in high-k (HK) dielectric stacks is
characterized by short breakdown times and shallow Weibull slopes. In this work, these …

Positive and negative oxygen vacancies in amorphous silica

A Kimmel, P Sushko, A Shluger, G Bersuker - Ecs transactions, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We modeled all stable positive and negative charge states of oxygen vacancies originating
from the neutral O3ŁSi= SiŁO3 defect in amorphous SiO2 (a-SiO2) using an embedded …