Growth of IZO/IGZO dual-active-layer for low-voltage-drive and high-mobility thin film transistors based on an ALD grown Al2O3 gate insulator

We successfully integrated the high-performance oxide thin film transistors with novel IZO/IGZO dual-active-layers. The results showed that dual-active-layer (IZO/IGZO) TFTs, compared with single active layer IGZO TFTs and IZO TFTs, exhibited the excellent performances; specifically, a high field effect mobility of 14.4 cm(2)/Vs, a suitable threshold voltage of 0.8 V. a high on/off ratio of more than 10(7), a steep sub-threshold swing of 0.13 V/dec, and a substantially small threshold voltage shift of 0.51 V after temperature stress from 293 K to 353 K. In order to understand the superior performance, the density-of-states (DOS) were investigated based on the temperature-dependent transfer curves. The superior electric properties were attributed to the smaller DOS and higher carrier concentration. The proposed IZO/IGZO-TFT in this paper can be used as driving devices in the next-generation flat panel displays. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.