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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4876262
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- SRC [2012-VJ-2299]
- Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
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Hafnium dioxide or hafnia is a wide band gap dielectric used in a range of electronic applications from field effect transistors to resistive memory. In many of these applications, it is important to maintain control over oxygen stoichiometry, which can be realized in practice by using a metal layer, specifically hafnium, to getter oxygen from the adjacent dielectric. In this paper, we employ density functional theory to study the thermodynamic stability of an interface between (100)-oriented monoclinic hafnia and hafnium metal. The nudged elastic band method is used to calculate the energy barrier for migration of oxygen from the oxide to the metal. Our investigation shows that the presence of hafnium lowers the formation energy of oxygen vacancies in hafnia, but more importantly the oxidation of hafnium through the migration of oxygen from hafnia is favored energetically. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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