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Fabrication of low‐temperature‐polysilicon thin‐film transistors on flexible substrates using excimer‐laser crystallization
Author(s) -
Kim YongHoon,
Kim WonKeun,
Han JeongIn,
Moon DaeGyu
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the society for information display
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1938-3657
pISSN - 1071-0922
DOI - 10.1889/1.2825099
Subject(s) - materials science , thin film transistor , excimer laser , sputtering , crystallization , optoelectronics , amorphous solid , thin film , fabrication , argon , pmos logic , laser , transistor , nanotechnology , voltage , layer (electronics) , optics , chemical engineering , electrical engineering , medicine , chemistry , physics , alternative medicine , engineering , organic chemistry , pathology , atomic physics
Abstract— Low‐temperature‐polysilicon thin‐film transistors (LTPS TFTs) were fabricated on polymer substrates using sputtered amorphous‐Si (a‐Si) films and excimer‐laser crystallization. The in‐film argon concentration of a‐Si films was minimized as low as 1.6% by using an argon/helium gas mixture as the sputtering gas. By employing XeCl excimer‐laser crystallization, poly‐Si films were successfully fabricated on polymer substrates with an average grain size of 400 nm. With a four‐mask process, a poly‐Si TFT was fabricated with a fully self‐aligned top‐gate structure, and the pMOS TFT device showed a field‐effect mobility of 63.6 cm 2 /V‐sec, ON/OFF ratio of 10 5 , and threshold voltage of −1.5 V.