Modeling the breakdown spots in silicon dioxide films as point contacts

Experiments and simulations are combined to demonstrate that the hard dielectric breakdown of thin SiO2 films in polycrystaline silicon/oxide/semiconductor structures leads to the formation of conduction paths with atomic-size dimensions which behave as point contacts between the silicon electrodes....

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Autores: Suñé, Jordi|||0000-0003-0108-4907, Miranda, E.|||0000-0003-0470-5318, Nafria, Montserrat|||0000-0002-9549-2890, Aymerich Humet, Xavier|||0000-0002-5874-6257
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:116280
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/116280
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1063/1.124566
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Point contacts
Silicon
Dielectric breakdown
Dielectric thin films
Semiconductor thin films
Thin film structure
Elemental semiconductors
Experiment design
III-V semiconductors
Semiconductor device modeling
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Sumario:Experiments and simulations are combined to demonstrate that the hard dielectric breakdown of thin SiO2 films in polycrystaline silicon/oxide/semiconductor structures leads to the formation of conduction paths with atomic-size dimensions which behave as point contacts between the silicon electrodes. Depending on the area of the breakdown spots, the conduction properties of the breakdown paths are shown to be those of a classical Sharvin point contact or of a quantum point contact.