A Site Specification Method of Gate Oxide Breakdown Spots by a New Test Structure of MOS Capacitors(Special Issue on Microelectronic Test Structures)

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A new test structure to specify accurately the position of gate oxide breakdown is proposed, which simply consists of a conventional polycrystalline Si gate MOS capacitor and Al dots array diagonally lined-up on the capacitor. Optical beam induced current microscope was used to discriminate the breakdown spot. Layout of the discriminated spot among the Al dot array accurately determined the breakdown position. A 5nm-thick gate oxide breakdown spot determined by this method has been successfully investigated by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy (XTEM). A series of site-specified XTEM studies reveal local melting of anode Si during the intrinsic dielectric breakdown. This test structure is practically useful for site-specified XTEM studies on process-induced degradation phenomena of thin gate oxides.
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2002-05-01