“…The interface quality between the deposited metal and the semiconductor surface decides the performance and reliability of these devices. Therefore, in order to reduce the leakage current and interface-state density, a variety of gate oxides/insulators such as Al 2 O 3 [3,6,7], ZrO 2 [9], SiN x [4,5,10], SrTiO 3 [12], Bi 3 Ti 4 O 12 [14], HfO 2 [15], and SiO x N y [16] materials have been proposed for application as an insulator layer at the metal/semiconductor (M/S) interface in semiconductor devices such as a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) or metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS), metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor (MFS) or metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor (MFIS), metaloxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), MFISFET structures and high-electron-mobility-transistors (HEMTs) [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”