Mitigation of Dielectric Charging in MEMS Capacitive Switches with Stacked TiO2/Y2O3 Insulator Film

Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Prof. George Papaioannou , University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Mr. Dimitris Birmpiliotis , University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Dr. Matroni Koutsoureli , University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Mr. Lorentzo Buhagier , University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Dr. Afshin Ziaei , Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France

Summary:

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors with single TiO2 and a TiO2/Y2O3 stack as an insulator films in MIM and MEMS, respectively, are explored. It is found that, under electron injection from bottom electrode, the TiO2 MIM capacitors demonstrate resistive switching at the price of leakage currents not usable for MEMS application. The deposition of a stacked TiO2/Y2O3 dielectric film improves the MEMS performance without compromising the low dielectric charging of TiO2 single layer