Quantitative depth profiling of nitrogen in ultrathin oxynitride film with low energy SIMS

  • H. K. Shon
  • , H. J. Kang
  • , T. E. Hong
  • , H. S. Chang
  • , K. J. Kim
  • , H. K. Kim
  • , D. W. Moon

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Abstract

It was shown that the thickness of ultrathin gate oxides measured with low energy O 2 + SIMS shows linear relationships with medium energy ion scattering spectroscopy (MEIS) and HRTEM results in the range of 9-2.5 nm. For quantitative N depth profiling, N profiles in ∼3 nm Si oxynitrides were measured by low energy O 2 + and Cs + SIMS and calibrated with MEIS analysis results of the thickness and the N areal density. N SIMS profiles observed for low energy O 2 + and Cs + SIMS showed some difference in the shape and distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)423-426
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume203-204
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jan 2003

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by KOSEF though ASSRC at Yonsei University, System IC 2010 Project and Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2001-005-020009).

Keywords

  • Low energy SIMS
  • MEIS
  • N profiling
  • Si oxynitride

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