Fluorine IMP Effect on Negative Bias Temperature Instability and Process Induced Defects
(0) Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is one of the major reliability concerns for pMOSFETs as the transistor gate oxide thickness is scaling down. Incorporating fluorine into the gate oxide is a well-known method to effectively suppress NBTI. The efficiency and mechanism are studied carefully in earlier reports. The focus of this paper is to analyze how the fluorine incorporation impacts on device performance and process integration. Different fluorine implantation conditions and their impacts on NBTI lifetime, device performance and process integration were studied and analyzed. The results demonstrated that fluorine implants could prolong pMOSFETs NBTI lifetime, but would reduce threshold voltage and degrade Ion-Ioff performance. Meanwhile, process defects were found if the F2 dose in the active area is greater than a certain value. Analysis and discussions are carried out to understand those phenomena.
Allan Zhou Jinhua Liu Kevin Zheng Jianhua Ju Jing Zhang Howard Gan Hokmin Ho Jay Ning
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Beijing 100176, China
国际会议
China Semiconductor Technology International Conference 2010(中国国际半导体技术大会 CSTIC)
上海
英文
67-72
2010-03-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）