Twin-GD: A New Twin Gated-Diode Measurement for the Interface Characterization of Ultra-Thin Gate Oxide MOSFET's with EOT Down to 1nm

In this paper, a new twin gated-diode (T-GD) method has been greatly improved for the oxide interface characterization of MOS devices with gate oxide as thin as 1 nm (EOT). With the scaling of gate oxide thickness into 1 nm regime, reported GD measurement can not give correct measurement due to gate tunneling leakage current. Here, we provide a simple method to remove this limitation. This method has been demonstrated successfully for the ultra-thin (EOT= 10.2Aring) gate oxide nMOSFET devices. Application of the method to the PBTI effects of high-k gate dielectric devices has been demonstrated. It was found that high-K device has worse gate oxide quality, but its interface damage is less than that of control oxide