Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 57, Issue 11, Pages 3006-3011Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2067733
Keywords
a-Si:H; flexible electronics; low temperature annealing
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0902277]
- Army Research Laboratory [W911NG-04-2-0005]
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We have investigated the effect of anneal time on the performance and temperature-dependent stability of low-temperature-fabricated (180 degrees C) hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin-film transistors (TFTs) on flexible substrates. For TFTs annealed for 48 h, the subthreshold slope and OFF-current were reduced by a factor of similar to 3 and by two orders of magnitude, respectively, when compared to unannealed TFTs. Furthermore, longer annealed TFTs showed a significant improvement in their stability when compared to unannealed TFTs. The lifetime values for the 48- and 96-h-annealed TFTs improved by a factor of similar to 3 compared to unannealed TFTs when the threshold voltage shift is extrapolated to 10 V. Stability at high temperatures with better lifetimes for the longer annealed TFTs is due to improvement in the a-Si:H/SiNx interface quality by the reduction of trapped charges inside the insulator. For all the TFTs at a positive gate bias, Delta V-t follows a power law dependence with time, indicating state creation. A low beta value (0.6 for unannealed TFTs to 0.37 for 96-h-annealed TFTs) indicates a good-quality a-Si:H channel and/or the a-Si:H/insulator interface after longer anneals.
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