We investigate Er silicide formed on n-type silicon. In order to protect Er from oxidation during the formation of Er silicide in non-UHV conditions, a Pt layer is deposed successively on top of Er layer. Surprinsingly, we observe that Pt remains essentially unaffected in the formation of Er silicide at 600°C. A simplified method of analysis considering the final Schottky-barrier SOI-MOSFET application has been used to characterize the Schottky barrier of the PtEr-stack silicide system. A very low Schottky barrier (smaller than 0.1eV) on a n-type substrate with a concentration of 1.4x10exp.16 cm³ in the active region has been obtained.
Tang, X., Katcki, J., Dubois, E., Ratajczak, J., Larrieu, G., Loumaye, P., Nisole, O., & Bayot, V. (2003). Very low Schottky barrier to n-type silicon with PtEr-stack silicide. 203th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society 2003, Paris (France). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/201133