Defects in silicon oxynitride gate dielectric films

Abstract As the aggressive scaling of the metal-oxide-semiconductor structure continues, new reliability challenges in gate dielectric materials now came across as the gate dielectric thickness will be further down scaled to its technological constraint (

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