Passivation of oxygen vacancy states and suppression of Fermi pinning in HfO2 by la addition

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Liu, D ^a   Robertson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON MOBILITY; FERMIONS; HAFNIUM; HAFNIUM COMPOUNDS; LANTHANUM; OXYGEN; PASSIVATION; SCANDIUM; VACANCIES;

CLOSED SHELLS; FERMI PINNING; FERMI-LEVEL PINNING; GAP STATE; METAL GATES; POSITIVE CHARGES; VACANCY STATE;

OXYGEN VACANCIES;

EID: 59349115581     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3076119     Document Type: Article

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