Role of surface fixed charge in the surface passivation of thermal atomic layer deposited Al2O3 on crystalline-Si

Y. N. Dou, Y. He, C. Y. Huang, C. L. Zhou, X. G. Ma, R. Chen, J. H. Chu

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)673-677
Number of pages5
JournalApplied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing
Volume109
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2012
Externally publishedYes

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