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Publication
Semiconductor Science and Technology
Paper
Electron effective mass in ultrathin oxide silicon MOSFET inversion layers
Abstract
The effective mass (m*) of two-dimensional electrons in silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), obtained from measurements of the thermal damping of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, has been studied as a function of electron density (ns) for samples with physical gate oxide thicknesses (dox) of 4.7 nm and 3.1 nm. For the latter at a low electron density, the ratio (aBrs)/d ox (where rs is the interaction parameter and a B is the Bohr radius in the semiconductor) exceeded 2 and the modification of the electron-electron interaction potential by the presence of the metallic gate was expected to be manifested as a change in the interaction-driven enhancement of the effective mass with increasing r s. The deduced mass enhancement in both thin-oxide samples is well described by m*/mb ≤ 0.96 + γrs, where mb is the bare band mass within the plane of confinement, and γ is a constant. Although the results from both samples are in good quantitative agreement with previous experiments on thicker-oxide MOSFETs, a small but significant difference in the extracted value of γ between the thin-oxide samples was observed. This difference cannot, however, be unambiguously interpreted as a true renormalization of m* caused by the screening effect of the gate. © 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.