The present invention provides a semiconductor structure including a
semiconductor substrate having a plurality of source and drain diffusion
regions located therein, each pair of source and drain diffusion regions
are separated by a device channel. The structure further includes a first
stack of a pFET device located on top of some of the device channels, the
first gate stack including a high-k gate dielectric, an insulating
interlayer abutting the gate dielectric and a fully silicided metal gate
electrode abutting the insulating interlayer, the insulating interlayer
includes an insulating metal nitride that stabilizes threshold voltage
and flatband voltage of the p-FET device to a targeted value and is one
of aluminum oxynitride, boron nitride, boron oxynitride, gallium nitride,
gallium oxynitride, indium nitride and indium oxynitride. A second gate
stack of an nFET device is located on top remaining device channels, the
second gate stack including a high-k gate dielectric and a fully
silicided gate electrode located directly atop the high-k gate
dielectric.