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Bis einschließlich zum Berichtsjahr 2018 wurde der Jahresbericht zweisprachig veröffentlicht. Paralleltitel bis 2018: Annual report

Vor dem Berichtsjahr 2019 wurde der Jahresbericht zweisprachig veröffentlicht.

Zugl.: Diss.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Heidelberg. / Enth.: 3 Sonderabdr. aus verschiedenen Publikationen. Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.

Ferroelectrics are promising for nonvolatile memories. However, the diffi culty of fabricating ferroelectric layers and integrating them into complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices has hindered rapid scaling. Hafnium oxide is a standard material available in CMOS processes. Ferroelectricity in Si-doped hafnia was first reported in 2011, and this has revived interest in using ferroelectric memories for various applications. Ferroelectric hafnia with matured atomic layer deposition techniques is compatible with three-dimensional capacitors and can solve the scaling limitations in 1-transistor-1-capacitor (1T-1C) ferroelectric random-access memories (FeRAMs). For ferroelectric field-effect-transistors (FeFETs), the low permittivity and high coercive field Ec of hafnia ferroelectrics are beneficial. The much higher Ec of ferroelectric hafnia, however, makes high endurance a challenge. This article summarizes the current status of ferroelectricity in hafnia and explains how major issues of 1T-1C FeRAMs and FeFETs can be solved using this material system.

Tantalum and tantalum nitride thin films are routinely applied as diffusion barriers in state-of-the-art metallization systems of microelectronic devices. In this work, such films were prepared by reactive magnetron sputtering on silicon and oxidized silicon substrates and studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry in the spectral range from 190 nm to 2.55 μm. The complex refractive index for thick films (75 to 380 nm) was modeled using a Lorentz-Drude approach. These models were applied to film stacks of 20 nm TaN / 20 nm Ta on unoxidized and thermally oxidized Si. With free oscillator parameters, accurate values of the film thicknesses were obtained according to cross-sectional scanning electron microscope (SEM) measurements. At the same time, a strong variation of the optical properties with film thickness and substrate was observed.

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