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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76046-w
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- Samsung Display
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [2020M3F3A2A01081240]
- National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea - Korean government [2020R1A4A3079923]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2020R1A4A3079923, 2020M3F3A2A01081240] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
We investigated the effect of film thickness (geometrical confinement) on the structural evolution of sputtered indium-zinc-tin oxide (IZTO) films as high mobility n-channel semiconducting layers during post-treatment at different annealing temperatures ranging from 350 to 700 degrees C. Different thicknesses result in IZTO films containing versatile phases, such as amorphous, low-, and high-crystalline structures even after annealing at 700 degrees C. A 19-nm-thick IZTO film clearly showed a phase transformation from initially amorphous to polycrystalline bixbyite structures, while the ultra-thin film (5 nm) still maintained an amorphous phase. Transistors including amorphous and low crystalline IZTO films fabricated at 350 and 700 degrees C show reasonable carrier mobility (mu(FE)) and on/off current ratio (I-ON/OFF) values of 22.4-35.9 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) and 1.0-4.0x10(8), respectively. However, their device instabilities against positive/negative gate bias stresses (PBS/NBS) are unacceptable, originating from unsaturated bonding and disordered sites in the metal oxide films. In contrast, the 19-nm-thick annealed IZTO films included highly-crystalline, 2D spherulitic crystallites and fewer grain boundaries. These films show the highest mu(FE) value of 39.2 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) in the transistor as well as an excellent I-ON/OFF value of 9.7x10(8). Simultaneously, the PBS/NBS stability of the resulting transistor is significantly improved under the same stress condition. This promising superior performance is attributed to the crystallization-induced lattice ordering, as determined by highly-crystalline structures and the associated formation of discrete donor levels (similar to 0.31 eV) below the conduction band edge.
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