Channel defect profiling and passivation for ZnO thin-film transistors

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The electrical characteristics of Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin-film transistors are analyzed to apprehend the effects of oxygen vacancies after vacuum treatment. The energy level of the oxygen vacancies was found to be located near the conduction band of ZnO, which contributed to the increase in drain current (ID) via trap-assisted tunneling when the gate voltage (VG) is lower than the specific voltage associated with the trap level. The oxygen vacancies were successfully passivated after the annealing of ZnO in oxygen ambient. We determined that the trap-induced Schottky barrier lowering reduced a drain barrier when the drain was subjected to negative bias stress. Consequentially, the field effect mobility increased from 8.5 m2 V−1·s−1 to 8.9 m2 V−1·s−1 and on-current increased by ~13%.

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Kang, S. C., Kim, S. Y., Lee, S. K., Kim, K., Allouche, B., Hwang, H. J., & Lee, B. H. (2020). Channel defect profiling and passivation for ZnO thin-film transistors. Nanomaterials, 10(6), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10061186

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