Published January 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Characteristics of low-temperature-annealed ZnO-TFTs

  • 1. Korea Maritime University, Busan (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Dong Eui University, Busan (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Busan National University, Miryang (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We investigated the effects of low-temperature annealing at 300 .deg. C and 500 .deg. C in air and N2 on the electrical characteristics of ZnO thin-film transistors (TFTs). The ZnO layers were deposited on a bottom-gate patterned Si substrate by radio-frequency (RF) sputtering at room temperature. A low-temperature oxide (LTO) served as the gate dielectric. Unannealed ZnO-TFTs were operated in the enhancement mode with a threshold voltage of 13.7 V. A field-effect mobility of 0.024 cm2/Vs and an on-off current ratio of 2 x 102 were obtained. Low-temperature annealing of the ZnO TFTs in an N2 atmosphere reduced the threshold voltage of the TFTs to 12.5 V and increased the field-effect mobility to 0.047 cm2/Vs and the on-off current ratio to 2 x 103.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
12
Series
15 refs, 6 figs, 2 tabs
Journal Page Range
p. 404-408
ISSN
0374-4884