High mobility MISFET with low trapped charge in HfSiO films

Abstract

MISFETs with HfSiO (EOT:1.8 nm) gate insulator have been reached high Ion (95%) and low gate leakage current (1/100) against SiO/sub 2/ gate film. This was achieved by the suppression of the remote Coulomb scattering, caused by the electron traps in the HfSiO gate stack. It was experimentally confirmed that less than 3/spl times/10/sup 12/ C/cm/sup 2/ electron trap level is required to get high mobility.