Abstract
In this work, surface passivation of thermal atomic layer deposited (ALD) Al2O3 films on Si has been investigated. A quantitative analysis shows that field-effect passivation based on surface fixed charge combined with chemical passivation is assumed to contribute to the passivation performance and that a low defect density is critical to passivation quality. The surface fixed negative charge, which is exponentially modulated from ∼0 cm-2 to -2 × 1012 cm-2 by annealing, is proposed to have arisen from the reconstruction of the interfacial SiO x layer.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 673-677 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |