Dual-functional crystalline BeO layer in enhancement-mode ZnO/Si thin film transistors
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI-RAPID RESEARCH LETTERS(2017)
摘要
Integration of oxides with Si opens promising opportunities for novel multifunctional devices and new applications. To optimize the device performances through the hybrid integration, keeping the oxide/Si interface abrupt is critically important and challenging due to the seemingly unavoidable formation of amorphous SiOx or silicide interfacial layers. Here, we report an interface-engineering approach to this issue by molecular beam epitaxy. A BeO thin layer (similar to 5 nm) was deposited on Si (111) surface using a two-step process of Be deposition and oxidation. The initially formed BeO served as a template for subsequent homo-epitaxial growth of a 10-nm crystalline BeO layer. The well-defined interface between BeO and Si is clearly discerned by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, implying the role of crystalline BeO as a barrier layer against oxygen atoms' diffusion. High-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy further confirmed that the combined BeO layers sufficiently protect the Si surface from oxidation. A bottom-gate enhancement-mode thin film transistor was established on a ZnO (130 nm)/BeO (70 nm)/Si architecture, where BeO was functionalized both as a diffusion barrier and as a high-k gate insulator. It indicates that this methodology can be potentially extended to hybrid integration of other technologically important crystalline oxides with Si infrastructures. (C) 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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BeO,crystalline oxides,diffusion barrier,high-k insulators,interface engineering,silicon,thin-film transistors
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