N-doped Al2O3 thin films deposited by atomic layer deposition

Minjae Kim; Kyung Mun Kang; Yue Wang; Hyung Ho Park

doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2018.04.021

N-doped Al₂O₃ thin films deposited by atomic layer deposition

Minjae Kim, Kyung Mun Kang, Yue Wang, Hyung Ho Park

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The present study focused on nitrogen doped Al₂O₃ thin films using atomic layer deposition, varying the deposition temperature from 55 to 170 °C. Al₂O₃ thin film growth rate and electrical properties were mostly dependent on deposition temperature. Nitrogen concentration decreased from 2.7 to 2.4% with increasing deposition temperature. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis confirmed that nitrogen doping in Al₂O₃ decreased formation of oxygen related defects, including non-lattice oxygen. Surface morphology analyses also showed that N-doping reduced Al₂O₃ film surface roughness. Reduced oxygen related defects significantly reduced leakage current by 1000 times when comparing with as-deposited films. Minimum leakage current (5 × 10⁻¹⁰ A/cm²) was observed for N-doped Al₂O₃ film deposited at 170 °C and post-annealed at 400 °C, including a decrease by 10 times through N-doping.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	657-662
Number of pages	6
Journal	Thin Solid Films
Volume	660
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2018.04.021
Publication status	Published - 2018 Aug 30

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Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) under Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program. No. 10068075, "Development of Mott-transition based forming-less non-volatile resistive switching memory & array". Experiments at PLS were supported in part by MEST and POSTECH.

Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) under Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program. No. 10068075 , "Development of Mott-transition based forming-less non-volatile resistive switching memory & array". Experiments at PLS were supported in part by MEST and POSTECH .

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© 2018 Elsevier B.V.

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Surfaces and Interfaces
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Metals and Alloys
Materials Chemistry

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