Communications Materials (Aug 2021)

The effect of charge transfer transition on the photostability of lanthanide-doped indium oxide thin-film transistors

  • Penghui He,
  • Hua Xu,
  • Linfeng Lan,
  • Caihao Deng,
  • Yongbo Wu,
  • Yilong Lin,
  • Siting Chen,
  • Chunchun Ding,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Miao Xu,
  • Junbiao Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00193-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Thin-film transistors based on amorphous oxide semiconductors have promising applications, but their stability is hampered by negative bias illumination stress. Here, a systematic study of lanthanide-doped indium oxide semiconductors reveals that Pr and Tb are most efficient in improving the photostability of devices.