ZHOU Fan, ZHANG Liang, LI Jun, ZHANG Xiao-wen, LIN Hua-ping, YU Dong-bin, JIANG Xue-yin, ZHANG Zhi-lin. Effect of Ta<sub>2</sub> O<sub>5</sub> Thickness on The Performances of ZnO-based Thin Film Transistors[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2011,32(2): 188-193
ZHOU Fan, ZHANG Liang, LI Jun, ZHANG Xiao-wen, LIN Hua-ping, YU Dong-bin, JIANG Xue-yin, ZHANG Zhi-lin. Effect of Ta<sub>2</sub> O<sub>5</sub> Thickness on The Performances of ZnO-based Thin Film Transistors[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2011,32(2): 188-193DOI:
Effect of Ta2 O5 Thickness on The Performances of ZnO-based Thin Film Transistors
Bottom-gate ZnO thin-film transistors (ZnO-TFTs) were fabricated with Ta
2
O
5
film as the insulator. Ta
2
O
5
film was grown by the radio-frequency magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The thickness of the Ta
2
O
5
layers were 100
85
60
40 nm separately. The effect of the thickness on the performance of the ZnO-TFTs was studied. With the thickness of the insulator decreased from 100
85
60 nm to 40 nm
the field effect mobility increased from 50.5
59.3
63.8 to 71.2 cm
2
/Vs. The surface morphology of the Ta
2
O
5
films were checked by the atomic force microscope
which showed that the root mean square (RMS) of the Ta
2
O
5
films roughness decreases with decreasing the insulator thickness. The
I
on
/
I
off
ratio and the threshold voltage are changed with the insulator thickness.
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