2007/0010060 Al 1/2007 Forbes etal.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Ahn, Kie Y., "Atomic Layer Deposited Hafnium Tantalum Oxide Dielectrics", U.S. Appl. No. 11/029,757, filed Jan. 5, 2005, 04-0902. Ahn, KieY., "Atomic Layer Deposited Lanthanum Aluminum Oxide Dielectric Layer", U.S. Appl. No. 10/930,167, filed Aug. 31, 2004, 04-0686.
Ahn, KieY, "Atomic Layer Deposited Lanthanum Hafnium Oxide Dielectrics", U.S. Appl. No. 11/010,529, filed Dec. 13, 2004, 04-0802.
Ahn, Kie Y, "Atomic Layer Deposited Titanium Aluminum Oxide Films", U.S. Appl. No. 10/931,533, filed Aug. 31, 2004, client ref. No. 04-0579.
Ahn, Kie Y, "Atomic Layer Deposition of Hf3N4/Hf02 Films as Gate Dielectrics", U.S. Appl. No. 11/063,717, filed Feb. 23, 2005, 04-1248.
Ahn, KieY, et al., "Atomic Layer Deposition of Zirconium-Doped Tantalum Oxide Films", U.S. Appl. No. 10/909,959, filed Aug. 2, 2004.
Ahn, KieY, "Atomic Layer Deposition of Zr3N4/Zr02 Films as Gate
Dielectrics", U.S. Appl. No. 11/058,563, filed Feb. 15,2005.
Ahn, Kie Y, "Hybrid ALD-CVD of PrXOY/Zr02 Films as Gate
Dielectrics", U.S. Appl. No. 11/010,766, filed Dec. 13, 2004,
04-0997.
Ahn, Kie Y, "Ruthenium Gate For a Lanfhanide Oxide Dielectric Layer", U.S. Appl. No. 10/926,812, filedAug. 26,2004, client ref No. 04-0538.
Berezhnoi, A., Silicon and its Binary Sytems, Consultants Bureau, NewYork,(1960),84.
Compagnini, G., et al., "Spectroscopic Characterization of Annealed Si(l-x)C(x) Films", J. Materials Res., 11, (Sep. 1996),2269-2273. Fastow, R., et al., "Eutectic melting by pulsed ion beam irradiation", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 46, No. ll,(Jun. 1985),1052-1054. Harrison, S., et al., "Poly-gate REplacement Through Contact Hold (PRETCH): A new method for High-K/Metal gate and multi-oxide implementation on chip", IEEE Int. Electron Devices Meeting, Paper 12.2, San Francisco,(Dec. 2004),4 pages.
Horie, Hiroshi, et al., "Novel High Aspect Ratio Aluminum Plug for Logic/DRAM LSI' sUsing Polysilicon-Aluminum Substitute", Technical Digest: IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, CA,(1996),946-948.
Park, Chang S., et al., "MOS Characteristics of Substituted Al Gate on High-K Dielectric", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 25, No. 11, (Nov. 2004),725-27.
Washburn, E., International Critical Tables of Numerical Data Physics, Chemistry and Technology, 1, (2003),103-105. Huff, H. R., "High Dielectric Constant Materials", Springer, (2005),261-266.
* cited by examiner