Abstract
The band alignment properties of atomic layer HfO2 film deposited on epitaxial (110)Ge, grown by molecular beam epitaxy, was investigated using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy exhibited a sharp interface between the (110)Ge epilayer and the HfO2 film. The measured valence band offset value of HfO2 relative to (110)Ge was 2.28 ± 0.05 eV. The extracted conduction band offset value was 2.66 ± 0.1 eV using the bandgaps of HfO2 of 5.61 eV and Ge bandgap of 0.67 eV. These band offset parameters and the interface chemical properties of HfO2/(110)Ge system are of tremendous importance for the design of future high hole mobility and low-power Ge-based metal-oxide transistor devices.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 093109 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 4 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work is supported in part by Intel Corporation.
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