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  • Title: Boosting carrier mobility and stability in indium-zinc-tin oxide thin-film transistors through controlled crystallization.
    Author: On N, Kim BK, Kim Y, Kim EH, Lim JH, Hosono H, Kim J, Yang H, Jeong JK.
    Journal: Sci Rep; 2020 Nov 02; 10(1):18868. PubMed ID: 33139811.
    Abstract:
    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 °C. Different thicknesses result in IZTO films containing versatile phases, such as amorphous, low-, and high-crystalline structures even after annealing at 700 °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 °C show reasonable carrier mobility (µFE) and on/off current ratio (ION/OFF) values of 22.4-35.9 cm2 V-1 s-1 and 1.0-4.0 × 108, 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 µFE value of 39.2 cm2 V-1 s-1 in the transistor as well as an excellent ION/OFF value of 9.7 × 108. 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 (~ 0.31 eV) below the conduction band edge.
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