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The degradation of the characteristics of silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structures with oxides of rare-earth elements under the effect of electric fields with intensities of 0.1–4 MV/cm during the course of electroforming is studied. A specific feature of electroforming consists in the possibility of multiple switching of the structures from the insulating state to the low-resistivity one and back. The temporal characteristics of the degradation of MOS structures during the course of electroforming are exponential. The current-voltage characteristics follow the power law in the range of 0.2–3 V; the effect of an electric field brings about a variation in the distribution of the energy density of traps responsible for currents limited by space charge. It is established that multiple cycles of electroforming lead to an increase in the density of surface states at the Si-oxide interface and to a variation in the energy position of the trap levels, which affects the charge state of the traps.
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Original Russian Text © M.B. Shalimova, N.V. Sachuk, 2015, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2015, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1071–1077.
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Shalimova, M.B., Sachuk, N.V. Degradation of the electrical characteristics of MOS structures with erbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium oxides under the effect of an electric field. Semiconductors 49, 1045–1051 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782615080199
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