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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 497, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.143804
Keywords
DRAM; Capacitor; Oxide electrode; Atomic layer deposition; Ta-doped SnO2; Dopant distribution
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Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea Grant - Korean government [NRF-2018R1A2B2007525]
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) [2E29400]
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Atomic layer deposition (ALD) on Ta-doped SnO2 thin films is proposed as a methodology for the fabrication of capacitor electrodes, for application in dynamic random-access memories (DRAMs). In ALD of doped materials, dopant concentration gradients inevitably occur due to the cyclic process-based characteristics of ALD. In this study, the dopant distribution improves drastically by the decrease in the growth per cycle of TaOx ALD. The modified ALD recipe exploits the low reactivity between Ta and Sn precursors to facilitate a reduction in the growth per cycle. The Ta-doped SnO2 films grown based on this modified ALD recipe exhibit improved crystallinity and conductivity. The ALD process yields excellent conformality of the Ta-doped SnO2 film over a hole structure with a high aspect ratio of similar to 10, both in terms of physical thickness and composition. Additionally, the Ta-doped SnO2 films serve as a template for the overgrowing dielectric TiO2 film, which induces the formation of a high-temperature phase with a high dielectric constant, rutile TiO2, and exhibit excellent thermal stability even after annealing at 400 degrees C in forming gas atmosphere. These findings demonstrate that the proposed methodology for the growth of Ta-doped SnO2 can facilitate the fabrication of capacitor electrodes for application in DRAMs.
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