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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 777, Issue -, Pages 1367-1374Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.11.004
Keywords
Thin film transistor; Zinc oxide; Indium-free; Reduced graphene oxide; Saturation mobility
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea government [2016R1A3B 1908249]
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ZnO thin film transistors (TFTs) with reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-embedded channel layers were fabricated and their electrical properties were compared with those of ZnO TFTs with no embedded layer (bare ZnO TFT), with Cr-embedded channel layers, and with a RGO/ZnO bilayer channel. Compared to the reference samples, the proposed ZnO TFTs with RGO-embedded layers exhibited very stable unipolar transfer characteristics with enhanced carrier mobility of 1.13 cm(2)V(-1)s(-1), subthreshold swing of 0.53 V decade(-1), and on/off ratio of 2.31 x 10(7), unlike most previous reports of graphene-embedded ZnO TFTs which exhibited undesirable ambipolar behavior. These improvements are attributed to the high carrier mobility of the RGO layer and the formation of the ZnO-RGO-ZnO area as a leakage prevention barrier in the negative bias region. In addition, through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis, it was found that the formation of Zn-C bonds allows for the stable operation of the proposed RGO-embedded ZnO TFT. These results will provide important information for the design of high-mobility TFT architectures for various applications. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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