• DocumentCode
    970416
  • Title

    Ambient Effect On Ionic Charges in Dielectric Films

  • Author

    Swaroop, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Kelsey-Hayes Research and Dev. Center
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1973
  • fDate
    12/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    234
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    The effect of various annealing ambients on the ionic charges contained in the dielectric structures of silicon dioxide-silicon and silicon nitride-silicon dioxide-silicon was investigated. It has been observed that most effective ambients in making ionic species immobile are nitrogen and a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen chloride gases. Further, silicon nitride used as passivating dielectric films over semiconductor devices has been observed to be an effective barrier for ionic impurities.
  • Keywords
    IGFETs; MIS devices; Silicon dioxide films; Silicon nitride films; p-i-n diodes; Annealing; Capacitance measurement; Capacitance-voltage characteristics; Circuits; Current measurement; Dielectric films; Electrodes; Nitrogen; Silicon compounds; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Parts, Hybrids, and Packaging, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1000
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPHP.1973.1136741
  • Filename
    1136741