Performance Investigation of an n-Type Tin-Oxide Thin Film Transistor by Channel Plasma Processing

Z. W. Shang; J. Ma; W. D. Liu; Y. C. Fan; H. H. Hsu; Z. W. Zheng; C. H. Cheng

doi:10.1109/JEDS.2020.2986172

IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (Jan 2020)

Performance Investigation of an n-Type Tin-Oxide Thin Film Transistor by Channel Plasma Processing

Z. W. Shang,
J. Ma,
W. D. Liu,
Y. C. Fan,
H. H. Hsu,
Z. W. Zheng,
C. H. Cheng

Affiliations

Z. W. Shang: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
J. Ma: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
W. D. Liu: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Y. C. Fan: Department of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
H. H. Hsu: Department of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
Z. W. Zheng: School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
C. H. Cheng: Department of Mechatronic Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2020.2986172
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8
pp. 485 – 489

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In this paper, we investigated the performance of an n-type tin-oxide (SnOx) thin film transistor (TFT) by experiments and simulation. The fabricated SnOx TFT device by oxygen plasma treatment on the channel exhibited n-type conduction with an on/off current ratio of 4.4×104, a high field-effect mobility of 18.5 cm2/V.s and a threshold swing of 405 mV/decade, which could be attributed to the excess reacted oxygen incorporated to the channel to form the oxygen-rich n-type SnOx. Furthermore, a TCAD simulation based on the n-type SnOx TFT device was performed by fitting the experimental data to investigate the effect of the channel traps on the device performance, indicating that performance enhancements were further achieved by suppressing the density of channel traps. In addition, the n-type SnOx TFT device exhibited high stability upon illumination with visible light. The results show that the n-type SnOx TFT device by channel plasma processing has considerable potential for next-generation high-performance display application.

Published in IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society

ISSN: 2168-6734 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
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