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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 14, Pages 2620-2622Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1690880
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High-k gate dielectric material LaAlO3 (LAO) films were deposited directly onto silicon substrates by laser molecular-beam epitaxy. The thermodynamic stability of LAO films deposited at different substrate temperatures and of LAO films postannealed at 1000 degreesC was studied by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and capacitor-voltage measurements. These studies show that the interfacial reaction between the LAO film and silicon substrate is strongly correlated to the substrate temperature and ambient conditions. In oxygen containing ambient, the interfacial reaction often occurs not only during film deposition but also during the course of postannealing. LAO films annealed at 1000 degreesC in nitrogen ambient have better thermal stability with silicon than LAO films annealed in oxygen ambient do. Both kinds of films remain amorphous after 1000 degreesC annealing. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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