Structural and dielectric properties of amorphousand
- 13 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 74 (12), 125108
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.74.125108
Abstract
Zirconia and hafnia are leading candidates for replacing as the gate insulator in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology. Amorphous versions of these materials ( and ) can be grown as metastable phases on top of a silicon buffer; while they tend to recrystallize during subsequent annealing steps, they would otherwise be of considerable interest because of the promise they hold for improved uniformity and electrical passivity. In this work, we report our theoretical studies of and by first-principles density-functional methods. We construct realistic amorphous models using the “activation-relaxation” technique of Barkema and Mousseau. The structural, vibrational, and dielectric properties of the resulting models are analyzed in detail. The overall average dielectric constant is computed and found to be comparable to that of the monoclinic phase.
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