Electrical characteristics of Ta2O5 thin films deposited by electron beam gun evaporation

Abstract
We report electrical characteristics of Ta2O5 films deposited by a simple electron beam gun evaporator. We describe thickness-dependent characteristics for films with thicknesses of 7–130 nm. An equivalent SiO2 thickness of 3.5–4.5 nm for films whose leakage current density at an electric field of 106 V/cm is lower than 10−7 A/cm2 is demonstrated.