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A comprehensive study of the electrical and physical characteristics of Lanthanum Aluminate (LaAlO₃) high-dielectric-constant gate oxides for advanced CMOS devices was performed. The most distinctive feature of LaAlO₃ as compared with Hf-based high-k materials is the thermal stability at the interface with Si, which suppresses the formation of a low-permittivity Si oxide interfacial layer. Care...