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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 77, 期 19, 页码 3012-3014出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1324730
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Postdeposition annealing of high-k dielectric Ta2O5 films to eliminate contaminations can adversely cause the films to crystallize, which can be detrimental to their complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor device performances. In this letter, we will show that spectroscopic ellipsometry can be used to quickly and nondestructively detect such crystallization by identifying the two relatively sharp absorption peaks at 4.7 and 5.2 eV in the complex dielectric function of the films. Such peaks are absent in amorphous Ta2O5 films. In general, these sharp structures in the dielectric function are expected from the presence of long-range order in materials, which produces singularities in their interband density of states. Using this approach, we will show that Ta2O5 films become crystalline when annealed at or above 750 degreesC and remain amorphous below 700 degreesC. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(00)05445-0].
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