Structural and dielectric properties of amorphous ZrO2 and HfO2

Details Structural and dielectric properties of amorphous ZrO2 and HfO2 Structural and dielectric properties of amorphous ZrO2 and HfO2

2006-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606340v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.125108

Zirconia (ZrO2) and hafnia (HfO2) are leading candidates for replacing SiO2 as the gate insulator in CMOS technology. Amorphous versions of these materials (a-ZrO2 and a-HfO2)) can be grown as metastable phases on top of a silicon buffer; while they tend to recrystallize during subsequent annealing steps, they would otherwise be of considerable interest because of the promise they hold for improved uniformity and electrical passivity. In this work, we report our theoretical studies of a-ZrO2 and a-HfO2 by first-principles density-functional methods. We construct realistic amorphous models using the ``activation-relaxation'' technique (ART) of Barkema and Mousseau. The structural, vibrational, and dielectric properties of the resulting models are analyzed in detail. The overall average dielectric constant is computed and found to be comparable to that of the monoclinic phase.

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