Electronic properties of very thin native SiO2/a-Si:H interfaces and their comparison with those prepared by both dielectric barrier discharge oxidation at atmospheric pressure and by chemical oxidation

Kral, M. and Bucek, A. and Gleskova, H. and Cernak, M. and Kobayashi, H. and Rusnak, J. and Zahoran, M. and Brunner, R. and Pincik, E. (2005) Electronic properties of very thin native SiO2/a-Si:H interfaces and their comparison with those prepared by both dielectric barrier discharge oxidation at atmospheric pressure and by chemical oxidation. Acta Physica Slovaca, 55 (4). pp. 373-378. ISSN 0323-0465

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Abstract

The contribution deals with electronic properties of thin oxide/amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si:H) measured by capacitance-voltage (C-V) and charge version of deep level transient spectroscopy (Q-DLTS). The interest was focused on the studies of the interface properties of very thin dielectrics formed by dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) or natively on the a-Si:H layer. These properties were compared with those of oxide layers prepared by chemical oxidation in HNO3. The DBD was used for the preparation of a very thin SiO2 layer on a-Si:H for the first time to our knowledge. Preliminary electrical measurements confirmed that a very low interface states density was detected in the case of the native oxide/a-Si:H and DBD oxide/a-Si:H.

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