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Praseodymium silicate formed by postdeposition high-temperature annealing
Sakai, Akira
Sakashita, Shinsuke
Sakashita, Mitsuo
Yasuda, Yukio
Zaima, Shigeaki
Miyazaki, Seiichi
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Praseodymium silicate (Pr silicate) has been synthesized by molecular-beam deposition of Pr_2O_3 layers on Si(111) substrates and subsequent high-temperature postdeposition annealing at 1000 ℃. This thermal treatment drastically changes the film texture from the crystalline Pr_2O_3 epitaxially grown on Si, into Pr silicate with completely amorphized structures, resulting from intermixing of Si from the substrate. It was found that the electrical characteristics of Pr silicate were critically dependent on the quality of the as-deposited Pr_2O_3 films. A typical dielectric constant and a leakage current density of Pr silicate grown under an optimal condition were, respectively, 19.7 and 3 *10^−9 A cm^−2 at + 1 V relative to the flatband voltage for an equivalent oxide thickness of 1.9 nm. Using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, a valence-band offset at the Pr-silicate/Si(111) interface of 2.75 eV and a band gap of 6.50 eV were obtained. The large band gap and the highly symmetric band alignment account for the observed low leakage current density.
American Institute of Physics
2004-11-29
eng
journal article
VoR
http://hdl.handle.net/2237/7010
https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/5406
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1828584
0003-6951
Applied Physics Letters
85
22
5322
5324
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