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Kyungsoo Jang1, Youngkuk Kim2, Joonghyun Park3
1College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 16419, Korea. jks30716@skku.edu.
Abstract:
We investigated the characteristics of excimer laser-annealed polycrystalline silicon-germanium (poly-Si1-xGex) thin film and thin-film transistor (TFT). The Ge concentration was increased from 0% to 12.3% using a SiH4 and GeH4 gas mixture, and a Si1-xGex thin film was crystallized using different excimer laser densities. We found that the optimum energy density to obtain maximum grain size depends on the Ge content in the poly-Si1-xGex thin film; we also confirmed that the grain size of the poly-Si1-xGex thin film is more sensitive to energy density than the poly-Si thin film. The maximum grain size of the poly-Si1-xGex film was 387.3 nm for a Ge content of 5.1% at the energy density of 420 mJ/cm2. Poly-Si1-xGex TFT with different Ge concentrations was fabricated, and their structural characteristics were analyzed using Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy. The results showed that, as the Ge concentration increased, the electrical characteristics, such as on current and sub-threshold swing, were deteriorated. The electrical characteristics were simulated by varying the density of states in the poly-Si1-xGex. From this density of states (DOS), the defect state distribution connected with Ge concentration could be identified and used as the basic starting point for further analyses of the poly-Si1-xGex TFTs.
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