Cover Acknowledge Contents Abstract (in Chinese) Abstract (in English) Figure Captions Chapter 1 Introduction 1-1 Overview of the intermetallic dielectric and interpoly oxide process 1-2 Motivation 1-3 Thesis outline 1-4 Reference Chapter 2 Improvement of Water-Related Hot-Carrier Reliability by Optimizing the Plasma-Enhanced TEOS Deposition Process 2-1 Introduction 2-2 Experimental Procedures 2-3 Results and Discussion 2-4 Conclusion Chapter 3 Plasma Charging Damage and Water-Related Hot-Carrier Reliability in the Deposition of Plasma Enhanced Tetraethylorthosilicate Oxide 3-1 introduction 3-2 Experimental Procedures 3-3 Results and Discussion Conclusion Chapter 4 The Characteristics of Polysilicon Oxide Grown on Amorphous Silicon Deposited from Disilane 4-1 Introduction 4-2 Experimental Procedures 4-3 Results and Discussion 4-4 Conclusion Chapter 5 Study of Process Effect on the Polyoxide 5-1 Introduction 5-2 Experimental Procedures 5-3 Results and Discussion 5-4 Summary Chapter 6 Impact of Post-Polysilicon Thermal Cycling on the Underlying Thin Gate Oxide 6-1 Introduction 6-2 Experimental Procedures 6-3 Results and Discussion 6-4 Conclusion Chapter 7 Effects of Bottom Polysilicon on the TDDB of ONO Interpoly-Si Dielectric and Stress-Induced Low Field Leakage Current of ONO Interpoly-Si Dielectric 7-1 Introduction 7-2 Experimental procedures 7-3 Results and Discussion 7-4 Conclusion Chapter 8 Conclusions and Recommendation for Future Research 8-1 Introduction 8-2 Suggestions for Future Work Vita Publication List
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