Published October 24, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Origin of instability by positive bias stress in amorphous Si-In-Zn-O thin film transistor

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Dongguk, Seoul 100-715 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Semiconductor Engineering, Cheongju University, Cheongju, Chungbuk 360-764 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Future Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 130-012 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 4. School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul 136-702 (Korea, Republic of)

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The origin of instability under positive bias stress (PBS) in amorphous Si-In-Zn-O (SIZO) thin film transistor (TFT) with different Si concentration has been investigated by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and density of states (DOSs) analysis. It is found that stability of SIZO-TFT with 3 wt. % Si under PBS became more deteriorated than that of 1 wt. % Si incorporated SIZO-TFT due to the increased oxygen related trap distributed in energy range from conduction band to ∼0.3 eV below the conduction band. The origin of instability under PBS was discussed in terms of oxygen related trap derived from DOSs and XPS analysis.

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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Journal Volume
99
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
p. 172106-172106.3
ISSN
0003-6951
CODEN
APPLAB

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(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics