The continued scaling of CMOS transistor requires replacement of the conventional silica gate oxide (SiO2) with a higher dielectric constant (K) gate dielectric to minimize the leakage current and to maintain a high capacitance especially at nano level to escape Quantum Mechanical Tunneling. Among many contenders, La2O3 is believed to be the suitable successor but the lanthanide oxides are known to be hygroscopic, which can affect their dielectric quality. Hence, we present a work on mixing the lanthanum oxide (or lanthana) with a less hygroscopic oxide such as Al2O3 to stabilize the...
The continued scaling of CMOS transistor requires replacement of the conventional silica gate oxide (SiO2) with a higher dielectric constant (K) gate ...