Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES
Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 121-126Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2022.3223642
Keywords
Amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT); drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL); indium gallium zinc oxide (InGaZnO); short-channel effect
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In this work, the drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL) of short-channel amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) was investigated by varying the oxygen content in the IGZO layer. A new method for extracting the channel dopant profile through a simple C-V measurement of the a-TFT sample was proposed and verified. It was found that the effective channel length becomes shorter and the DIBL effect becomes more severe with decreasing the oxygen content in the IGZO channel layer.
Characterization of short-channel amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (InGaZnO) (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) has been a crucial issue to realize higher resolution display and heterogeneous integration with com-plementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technol-ogy. In this work, the drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL) of the a-IGZO TFT was investigated with the variations in oxygen content in the IGZO layer. In order to accurately investigate the effect of the drain voltage on the channel potential, it is necessary to analyze the energy band dia-gram based on the dopant profile of the channel region. A new method for extracting the channel dopant profile through a simple C-V measurement of the a-TFT sample was proposed. We performed TCAD device simulation based on the extracted density of states and dopant profile of IGZO layer and confirm good agreement with the measured I-V characteristics of a-IGZO TFTs with various oxygen contents. The effective channel length was found to be short with decreasing the oxygen content in the IGZO channel layer. The DIBL effect becomes more severe as the oxygen content decreases. Our methodology, which was success-fully verified in this work, can be utilized for the analysis of short-channel effects including DIBL for the scaled a-IGZO TFTs.
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