Suppression of oxygen vacancy formation in Hf-based high-k dielectrics by lanthanum incorporation

The effects of lanthanum incorporation into HfO2 dielectrics were studied using first-principles total energy calculations. The author’s computational result clearly showed that the formation energy of a neutral oxygen vacancy (VO0) in the vicinity of substitutional La atoms at Hf sites is 0.7eV lar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied physics letters 2007-09, Vol.91 (13)
Hauptverfasser: Umezawa, N., Shiraishi, K., Sugino, S., Tachibana, A., Ohmori, K., Kakushima, K., Iwai, H., Chikyow, T., Ohno, T., Nara, Y., Yamada, K.
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Zusammenfassung:The effects of lanthanum incorporation into HfO2 dielectrics were studied using first-principles total energy calculations. The author’s computational result clearly showed that the formation energy of a neutral oxygen vacancy (VO0) in the vicinity of substitutional La atoms at Hf sites is 0.7eV larger than that in pure HfO2, indicating that the concentration of VO0’s is drastically reduced by La incorporation. This effect is understood to be caused by the decrease in the local dielectric constant κL around La atoms due to the strong ionic character of the La–O bond compared to the Hf–O bond.
ISSN:0003-6951
1077-3118
DOI:10.1063/1.2789392