Remote Surface Roughness Scattering in FDSOI devices with high-/SiO2 gate stacks
Abstract
We investigate remote surface scattering (RSR) by the SiO2/HfO2 interface in Fully-Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (FDSOI) devices using Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions. We show that the RSR mobility is controlled by cross-correlations between the surface roughness profiles at the Si/SiO2 and SiO2/HfO2 interfaces. Therefore, surface roughness and remote surface roughness can not be modeled as two independent mechanisms. RSR tends to enhance the total mobility when the Si/SiO2 interface and SiO2 thickness profiles are correlated, and to decrease the total mobility when they are anti-correlated. We discuss the implications for the high-/Metal gate technologies.
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