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Reliability enhancement in thin film transistors using Hf and Al co-incorporated ZnO active channels deposited by atomic-layer-deposition

Abstract

Oxide thin films transistors (TFTs) with Hf and Al co-incorporated ZnO active channels prepared by atomic-layer deposition are presented. The Al concentration was fixed at 2.6 at% and the Hf concentration was varied from 3.3 to 6.3 at%. The HfAlZnO (HAZO) TFTs exhibited positive shifts in turn on voltages toward 0 V with a slight decrease in carrier mobility with increases in the incorporated Hf content and the post-annealing temperature. It was suggested that the carrier concentration and defect densities within the HAZO channels were reduced by incorporating Hf and performing the thermal annealing process. The TFT with HAZO channels with Hf content of 6.3 at% exhibited a turn-on operation at around 0 V and a low SS value of 0.3 V dec−1 without a marked decrease in carrier mobility. Furthermore, the device stabilities under bias, illumination, and temperature stresses could be greatly enhanced by reducing the formation of additional carriers and defects caused by weak Zn–O bonds due to the high binding energy of Hf with oxygen.

Graphical abstract: Reliability enhancement in thin film transistors using Hf and Al co-incorporated ZnO active channels deposited by atomic-layer-deposition

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Aug 2018
Accepted
21 Sep 2018
First published
05 Oct 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 34215-34223

Reliability enhancement in thin film transistors using Hf and Al co-incorporated ZnO active channels deposited by atomic-layer-deposition

S. Na and S. Yoon, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 34215 DOI: 10.1039/C8RA07266C

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