Probing the interface barriers of dopant-segregated silicide-Si diodes with internal photoemission

Zhen Zhang, Joanna Atkin, Marinus Hopstaken, Michael Hatzistergos, Paul Ronsheim, Eric Liniger, Robert Laibowitz, Paul Michael Solomon

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Abstract

An experimental study is presented to probe the interface barriers of dopant-segregated silicide-Si diodes with internal photoemission. The spatial information of the interface dipoles, which is believed to be the cause of the effective Schottky barrier height (SBH) modification, is extracted from the field dependence of the barrier heights. A clear difference between the dopant segregation (DS) junctions and a pure Schottky junction is found: Boron DS modifies the effective SBH by forming a p +-n junction while arsenic DS forms a Shannon junction with a fully depleted 1.5-nm doping depth in front of the silicide.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6204081
Pages (from-to)2027-2032
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Volume59
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dopant segregation (DS)
  • Schottky barrier engineering
  • Schottky diodes
  • interface dipole
  • internal photoemission (IPE)
  • silicide

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