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APL MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4937468
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- National University of Singapore Faculty Research Committee [R-263-000-B21-133, R-263-000-B21-731]
- A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council [R-263-000-B89-305]
- National Research Foundation under its medium sized centre program
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Two-dimensional phosphorene is a promising channel material for next generation transistor applications due to its superior carrier transport property. Here, we report the influence of thermal effects on the Raman phonon of few-layer phosphorene formed on hafnium-dioxide (HfO2) high-k dielectric. When annealed at elevated temperatures (up to 200 degrees C), the phosphorene film was found to exhibit a blue shift in both the out-of-plane (A(g)(1)) and in-plane (B-2g and A(g)(2)) phonon modes as a result of compressive strain effect. This is attributed to the out-diffusion of hafnium (Hf) atoms from the underlying HfO2 dielectric, which compresses the phosphorene in both the zigzag and armchair directions. With a further increase in thermal energy beyond 250 degrees C, strain relaxation within phosphorene eventually took place. When this happens, the phosphorene was unable to retain its intrinsic crystallinity prior to annealing, as evident from the broadening of full-width at half maximum of the Raman phonon. These results provide an important insight into the impact of thermal effects on the structural integrity of phosphorene when integrated with high-k gate dielectric. (C) 2015 Author(s).
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