GUO Yong-lin, LIANG Xu-xu, HU Shou-cheng etc. Improvement of IGZO-TFTs Performance with SiN<sub><em>x</em></sub> Gate Insulator Modified by Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Film[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2015,36(8): 947-952
GUO Yong-lin, LIANG Xu-xu, HU Shou-cheng etc. Improvement of IGZO-TFTs Performance with SiN<sub><em>x</em></sub> Gate Insulator Modified by Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Film[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2015,36(8): 947-952 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20153608.0947.
Improvement of IGZO-TFTs Performance with SiNx Gate Insulator Modified by Al2O3 Film
Top-contact thin-film transistors(TFTs) were fabricated using SiN
x
as the gate insulator and InGaZnO as the channel layer. The insulator was modified by Al
2
O
3
layer and its effect on the performance of IGZO-TFTs was investagated. The results show that TFTs with 4-nm-thick Al
2
O
3
film exhibits the best electrical performance. The best performance can be attributed to the suppression of maximum density of surface states at the channel-insulator interface which is reduced by 17.2% contrasting to the TFTs without Al
2
O
3
buffer layers. The field effect mobility increases from 1.19 to 7.11 cm
2
/(Vs)
and the threshold voltage decreases from 39.70 to 25.37 V. Under bias stress for 1 h
the threshold voltage shift decreases from 2.19 to 1.41 V/dec.
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