The Effect of Multiple Interface States and nc-Si Dots in a Nc-Si Floating Gate MOS Structure Measured by their G–V Characteristics

An nc-Si floating gate MOS structure is fabricated by thermal annealing of SiN_(x)/a-Si/SiO_(2).There are nc-Si dots isolated by a-Si due to partial crystallization.Conductance-voltage(G–V)measurements are performed to investigate the effect of multiple interface states including Si-sub/SiO_(2),a-Si related(as-deposited sample)and nc-Si(annealed sample)in a charge trapping/releasing process.Double conductance peaks located in the depletion and weak inversion regions are found in our study.For the as-deposited sample,the Si-sub/SiO_(2) related G–V peak with weak intensity shifts to the negative as test frequency increases.The a-Si related G–V peak with strong intensity shifts slightly with the increasing frequency.For the annealed sample,little change appears in the intensity and shift of Si-sub/SiO_(2) related G–V peaks.The position of a-Si/nc-Si related peak is independent of frequency,and its intensity is weaker compared to that of the as-deposited sample.It is also found that as the size of nc-Si becomes larger,the a-Si/nc-Si related peak shifts to the depletion region due to the size effect of nc-Si.