화학공학소재연구정보센터
Thin Solid Films, Vol.345, No.1, 172-177, 1999
Electronic properties of MOS capacitor exposed to Inductively coupled hydrogen plasma
Hydrogen plasma is interested for nano-structure cleaning on semiconductor surface at room temperature. We studied the electronic properties of MOS capacitor exposed to hydrogen plasma excited in an Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) source. Since ICP can generate plasma with a loop antenna put the outside of a quartz chamber, it does not induce heavy metal contamination. By electrical characterization of MOS capacitor, hydrogen related neutral electron traps were induced into SiO2 by the hydrogen plasma exposure, With increasing incident ion energy, much more neutral electron traps were induced. XPS chemical analysis suggested that SI-H bonds were formed in SiO2 with exposure to the hydrogen plasma. It is speculated that under high field stressing to the SiO2, hydrogenated Si bonds were broken by electron impact and electrons were trapped to the broken bonds in SiO2. With increasing gas pressure during the hydrogen plasma exposure, electrical degradation of the SiO2 could be reduced.