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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages 1249-1251Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1448384
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The optical properties of a set of high-k dielectric HfO2 films annealed at various high temperatures were determined by spectroscopic ellipsometry. The results show that the characteristics of the dielectric functions of these films are strongly affected by high temperature annealing. For a sample annealed at 600 degreesC, the film becomes polycrystalline, and its dielectric function displays a distinctive peak at 5.9 eV. On the other hand, the film remains amorphous without the 5.9 eV feature after 500 degreesC annealing. To model the dielectric functions, the Tauc-Lorentz dispersion was successfully adopted for these amorphous and polycrystalline films. The absorption edge was observed to shift to a higher energy at a high temperature annealing. Defects in the films were shown to relate to the appearance of a band tail above the absorption edge, and they appear to diminish with high temperature annealing. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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