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    Citation - WoS: 18
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    Impact of Incorporated Oxygen Quantity on Optical, Structural and Dielectric Properties of Reactive Magnetron Sputter Grown High-? Hfo2/Hf Thin Film
    (Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Cantaş, Ayten; Aygün, Gülnur; Turan, Raşit
    High-κ hafnium-oxide thin films have been fabricated by radio frequency (rf) reactive magnetron sputtering technique. To avoid formation of an undesired interfacial suboxide layer between Si and high-κ film, prior to HfO2 deposition, a thin Hf buffer layer was deposited on p-type (1 0 0) Si substrate at room temperature. Effect of oxygen gas quantity in the O2/Ar gas mixture was studied for the optical and structural properties of grown HfO2 high-κ thin films. The grown thin oxide films were characterized optically using spectroscopic ellipsometer (SE) in detail. Crystal structure was studied by grazing incidence X-ray diffractometer (GIXRD) technique, while bonding structure was obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analyses. In agreement with GIXRD and FTIR analyses, SE results show that any increment above ideal quantity of oxygen content in the gas mixture resulted in decrements in the refractive index and thickness of HfO2 dielectric film, while increments in SiO2 thickness. It is apparent from experimental results that oxygen to argon gas ratio needs to be smaller than 0.2 for a good film quality. The superior structural and optical properties for grown oxide film were obtained for O2/Ar gas ratio of about 0.05-0.1 combined with ∼30 W constant rf sputtering power. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 25
    Citation - Scopus: 26
    Structural and Optical Characteristics of Tantalum Oxide Grown by Pulsed Nd:yag Laser Oxidation
    (AVS Science and Technology Society, 2006) Atanassova, Elenada A.; Aygün, Gülnur; Turan, Raşit; Babeva, T.
    Tantalum pentoxide (Ta2 O5) thin films (20-50 nm) have been grown by 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser oxidation of Ta film deposited on Si. The chemical bonding, structure, and optical properties of the films have been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and reflectance measurements at normal light incidence in the spectral range of 350-800 nm. The effect of the substrate temperature (250-400 °C) during oxidation and its optimization with respect to the used laser beam energy density (3.2-3.4 J cm2 per pulse) is discussed. It is established that the substrate temperature is a critical factor for the effectiveness of the oxidation process and can be used to control the composition and amorphous status of the films. The film density explored by refractive index is improved with increasing film thickness. The refractive index of the layers grown under the higher laser beam energy density and at substrate temperature of 350-400 °C was found to be close to the value of bulk Ta2 O5. The films are amorphous at substrate temperature below 350 °C and possessed an orthorhombic (Β- Ta2 O5) crystal structure at higher temperatures. The thinner layers crystallize at a little higher temperature.