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Min Seong Kim1, Hyung Tae Kim1, Hyukjoon Yoo1
1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
In this study, the oxygen scavenger layer (OSL) is proposed as a back channel in the bilayer channel to enhance both the electrical characteristics and stability of an amorphous indium-gallium-zinc oxide thin-film transistor (a-IGZO TFT) and also to enable its fabrication at low temperature. The OSL is a hafnium (Hf)-doped a-IGZO channel layer deposited by radio-frequency magnetron cosputtering. Amorphous IGZO TFTs with the OSL, even if annealed at a low temperature (200 °C), exhibited improved electrical characteristics and stability under positive bias temperature stress (PBTS) compared to those without the OSL, specifically in terms of field-effect mobility (31.08 vs 9.25 cm2/V s), on/off current ratio (1.73 × 1010 vs 8.68 × 108), and subthreshold swing (0.32 vs 0.43 V/decade). The threshold voltage shift under PBTS at 50 °C for 10,000 s decreased from 9.22 to 2.31 V. These enhancements are attributed to Hf in the OSL, which absorbs oxygen ions from the a-IGZO front channel near the interface between a-IGZO and the OSL.
