Characteristics of cerium oxide for metal-insulator-metal capacitors

C. H. Cheng; H. H. Hsu; W. B. Chen; Albert Chin; F. S. Yeh

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Characteristics of cerium oxide for metal-insulator-metal capacitors

C. H. Cheng, H. H. Hsu, W. B. Chen, Albert Chin, F. S. Yeh

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In this article, we describe our successful fabrication of a Ce O ₂ metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor with a low voltage nonlinearity. A low leakage current of 3.9× 10^-7 A/ cm ² at -1 V and a small VCC-^α∼421 ppm/ V ² were obtained at a high 10.8 fF/μ m² density for a Pt/Ce O₂ /TaN MIM capacitor. The small VCC-α for a 15 nm thick Ce O₂ dielectric (κ∼20) was much better than the reported dielectrics of Hf O₂, Tb-Hf O₂, and Al₂ O ₃ -Hf O₂ at a similar κ -value (15-20). The good analog performance was due to the combined effect of the Ce O₂ dielectric and the high work-function metals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	H16-H19
Journal	Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3258042
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Electrochemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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