Effects of hydrogen plasma treatment on the electrical performances and reliability of InGaZnO thin-film transistors

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作者
Abliz A. [1 ]
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[1] School of Physics and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Hydrogen plasma treatment; InGaZnO; Reliability; Thin film transistors;
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10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154694
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In this work, we have investigated the effects of hydrogen (H) plasma treatment on the electrical performances and reliability of amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs). By optimizing the H plasma treatment time, the a-IGZO TFT with H plasma treatment time of 1 min exhibits excellent electrical performances and reliability, such as high field-effect mobility (μFE) of 26.5 cm2/V s and small threshold voltage shifts (ΔVth) value of 2.5 V and −2.3 V under positive gate bias stress (PBS) and negative gate bias stress (NBS) measurements without any passivation layers. The increased performance relies that the H plasma treatment not only could increase the carrier concentration (Ne) but also reduce the surface defects of channel layer and interface trap density of a-IGZO TFTs. The X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy measurement reveals that the H treatment passivated the oxygen vacancy (VO) defects and formed center-bonded complex states (HO or VO-H) in the a-IGZO films, which act as a shallow donor in a-IGZO films. Therefore, the high performances and excellent reliability of a-IGZO TFTs is suggesting that H is a very promising treatment for TFTs to be used for flexible thin film electronic applications. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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