Fabrication process for a semiconductor device having a metal oxide dielectric material with a high dielectric constant, annealed with a buffered anneal process

摘要

A method of forming an annealed high-K metal oxide transistor gate structure is disclosed. A metal oxide layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate. The metal oxide layer undergoes a buffered annealed process in an oxygen atmosphere to anneal the metal oxide layer at or below the thermodynamic chemical equilibrium of SiO/SiO2 and at or above the thermodynamic chemical equilibrium of the metal oxide layer.