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Enhanced Device Performance of IZO-based oxide-TFTs with Co-sputtered $HfO_2-Al_2O_3$ Gate Dielectrics  

Son, Hee-Geon (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Yang, Jung-Il (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Cho, Dong-Kyu (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Woo, Sang-Hyun (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Lee, Dong-Hee (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Yi, Moon-Suk (School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
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Abstract
A transparent oxide thin film transistors (Transparent Oxide-TFT) have been fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature using amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO) as both of active channel and source/drain, gate electrodes and co-sputtered $HfO_2-Al_2O_3$ (HfAIO) as gate dielectric. In spite of its high dielectric constant > 20), $HfO_2$ has some drawbacks including high leakage current and rough surface morphologies originated from small energy band gap (5.31eV) and microcrystalline structure. In this work, the incorporation of $Al_2O_3$ into $HfO_2$ was obtained by co-sputtering of $HfO_2$ and $Al_2O_3$ without any intentional substrate heating and its structural and electrical properties were investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and spectroscopic ellipsometer (SE) analyses. The XRD studies confirmed that the microcrystalline structures of $HfO_2$ were transformed to amorphous structures of HfAIO. By AFM analysis, HfAIO films (0.490nm) were considerably smoother than $HfO_2$ films (2.979nm) due to their amorphous structure. The energy band gap ($E_g$) deduced by spectroscopic ellipsometer was increased from 5.17eV ($HfO_2$) to 5.42eV (HfAIO). The electrical performances of TFTs which are made of well-controlled active/electrode IZO materials and co-sputtered HfAIO dielectric material, exhibited a field effect mobility of more than $10cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, a threshold voltage of ~2 V, an $I_{on/off}$ ratio of > $10^5$, and a max on-current of > 2 mA.
Keywords
Oxide TFT; IZO; HfO2; HfAIO; Transparent TFT;
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