• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2016.02a
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• pp.307.1-307.1
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• 2016

Amorphous zinc tin oxide (ZTO) thin films are being widely studied for a variety electronic applications such as the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) in the field of photoelectric elements and thin film transistors (TFTs). Thin film transistors (TFTs) with transparent amorphous oxide semiconductors (TAOS) represent a major advance in the field of thin film electronics. Examples of TAOS materials include zinc tin oxide (ZTO), indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), indium zinc oxide, and indium zinc tin oxide. Among them, ZTO has good optical and electrical properties (high transmittance and larger than 3eV band gap energy). Furthermore ZTO does not contain indium or gallium and is relatively inexpensive and non-toxic. In this study, ZTO thin films were formed by UHV RF magnetron co-sputter deposition on silicon substrates and sapphires. The films were deposited from ZnO and SnO2 target in an RF argon and oxygen plasma. The deposition condition of ZTO thin films were controlled by RF power and post anneal temperature using rapid thermal annealing (RTA). The deposited and annealed films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscope (AFM), ultraviolet and visible light (UV-VIS) spectrophotometer.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.286-290
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• 2020

The formation of inorganic thin films in low-temperature solution processes is necessary for a wide range of commercial applications of organic electronic devices. Aluminum oxide thin films can be utilized as barrier films that prevent the deterioration of an electronic device due to moisture and oxygen in the air. In addition, they can be used as the gate insulating layers of a thin film transistor. In this study, aluminum oxide thin film were formed using two methods simultaneously, a thermal process and the DUV process, and the properties of the thin films were compared. The result of converting aluminum nitrate hydrate to aluminum oxide through a hybrid process using a thermal treatment and DUV was confirmed by XPS measurements. A film-based a-IGZO TFT was fabricated using the formed inorganic thin film as a gate insulating film to confirm its properties.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.211-216
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• 2020

Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) thin film transistors, because of their relatively low mobility, have limits in attempts to fulfill high-end specifications for display backplanes. In-Zn-O (IZO) is a promising semiconductor material for high mobility device applications with excellent transparency to visible light region and low temperature process capability. In this paper, the effects of working pressure on the physical and electrical properties of IZO films and thin film transistors are investigated. The working pressure is modulated from 2 mTorr to 5 mTorr, whereas the other process conditions are fixed. As the working pressure increases, the extracted optical band gap of IZO films gradually decreases. Absorption coefficient spectra indicate that subgap states increase at high working pressure. Furthermore, IZO film fabricated at low working pressure shows smoother surface morphology. As a result, IZO thin film transistors with optimum conditions exhibit excellent switching characteristics with high mobility (≥ 30㎠/Vs) and large on/off ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.207-207
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• 2011

Amorphous transparent oxide semiconductors (a-TOS) have been widely studied for many optoelectronic devices such as AM-OLED (active-matrix organic light emitting diodes). Recently, Nomura et al. demonstrated high performance amorphous IGZO (In-Ga-Zn-O) TFTs.1 Despite the amorphous structure, due to the conduction band minimum (CBM) that made of spherically extended s-orbitals of the constituent metals, an a-IGZO TFT shows high mobility.2,3 But IGZO films contain high cost rare metals. Therefore, we need to investigate the alternatives. Because Aluminum has a high bond enthalpy with oxygen atom and Alumina has a high lattice energy, we try to replace Gallium with Aluminum that is high reserve low cost material. In this study, we focused on the electrical properties of IZO:Al thin films as a channel layer of TFTs. IZO:Al were deposited on unheated non-alkali glass substrates (5 cm ${\times}$ 5 cm) by magnetron co-sputtering system with two cathodes equipped with IZO target and Al target, respectively. The sintered ceramic IZO disc (3 inch ${\phi}$, 5 mm t) and metal Al target (3 inch ${\phi}$, 5 mm t) are used for deposition. The O2 gas was used as the reactive gas to control carrier concentration and mobility. Deposition was carried out under various sputtering conditions to investigate the effect of sputtering process on the characteristics of IZO:Al thin films. Correlation between sputtering factors and electronic properties of the film will be discussed in detail.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.234-234
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• 2011

IGZO 투명 전도 박막은 TFT-LCD에 사용되는 투명 전도성 산화물 박막으로서 다양한 광전자 소자의 투명 전극으로 널리 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 RF magnetron sputtering법으로 corning 1737 유리기판 위에 RF 파워의 변화에 따라 증착한 IGZO박막의 광학적 전기적 특성 변화를 연구하였다. 박막 증착 조건은 초기 압력 $2.0{\times}10^{-6}$ Torr, 증착 압력 $2.0{\times}10^{-2}$ Torr, 반응가스 Ar 50 sccm, 증착 온도는 실온으로 고정하였으며, 공정변수로 RF 파워를 25 w, 50 w, 75 w, 100 w로 변화시키며, IGZO 타겟은 $In_2O_3$, $Ga_2O_3$, ZnO 분말을 각각 1 : 1 : 2 mol% 조성비로 혼합하여 소결한 타겟을 사용하였다. 표면분석(AFM)결과 RF 파워가 증가함에 따라 거칠기가 증가하였으며, XRD 분석결과 Bragg's 법칙을 만족하는 피크가 나타나지 않는 비정질 구조임을 확인할 수 있었다. 가시광 영역에서 (450 nm~700 nm) 25 w일 때 85% 이상을 확인하였고, RF 파워가 증가할수록 밴드갭이 감소하는 것을 확인하였다. RF 파워가 100 w인 경우 carrier 밀도는 $7.0{\times}10^{19}\;cm^{-3}$, Mobility 13.4 $cm^2$/V-s, Resistivity $6.0{\times}10^{-3}\;{\Omega}-cm$로 투명전도막의 특성을 보였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.524-526
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• 2009

The effects of In and Ga contents on characteristics of InGaZnO (IGZO) films grown by a sol-gel method and their thin film transistors (TFTs) have been investigated. Excess In incorporation into IGZO enhances the field effect mobilities of the TFTs due to the increase in conducting path ways, and decreases the grain size and the surface roughness of the films because more $InO_2^-$ ions induce cubic stacking faults with IGZO. Ga incorporation into results in decrease in carrier concentration of films and off-current of TFTs since Ga ion forms stronger chemical bonds with oxygen than Zn and In ions, acting as a carrier killer.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.95-95
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• 2015

IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) 물질은 기존에 사용되던 Amorphous Silicon에 비해 전자 이동도가 더욱 빠르기 때문에 차세대 디스플레이 재료로서 각광받고 있으며, 이러한 빠른 전자 이동도는 디스플레이 소자에 있어서 매우 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 이를 향상시키기 위하여 본 연구에서는 ICP(inductively coupled plasma) antenna를 이용하여 rf power와 requency를 변화함으로써 박막 증착 시 발생되는 플라즈마의 특성을 조절하여, 박막의 특성을 조절하고자 했다. 이렇게 증착된 IGZO 박막은 Hall Effect Measurement를 이용하여 전기적 특성을 분석하였으며, XPS(x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy)를 이용하여 박막의 조성을 분석하였다.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.47-49
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• 2012

In this paper, we investigated the anomalous hump in the bottom gate staggered a-IGZO TFTs. During the positive bias stress, a positive threshold voltage shift was observed in the transfer curve and an anomalous hump occurred as the stress time increased. The hump became more serious in higher gate bias stress while it was not observed under the negative bias stress. The analysis of constant gate bias stress indicated that the anomalous hump was influenced by the migration of positively charged mobile interstitial zinc ion towards the top side of the a-IGZO channel layer.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.4
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• pp.721-726
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• 2017

We fabricated stretchable thin-film transistors(TFTs) on a polydimethylsiloxane substrate with patterned polyimide island structures by using an amorphous InGaZnO semiconductor and parylene gate insulator. The TFTs exhibited a field- effect mobility of $5cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$ and a current on/off ratio of $10^5$ at a relatively low operating voltage. Furthermore, the fabricated transistors showed no noticeable changes in their electrical performance for large strains of up to 50 %.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1277_1278
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• 2009

Amorphous oxide semiconductor $InGaZnO_4$(IGZO) is a very promising candidate of channel layer in transparent thin film trasisitor(TTFT) because of its high mobility and high transparency in visible light region. Amorphous IGZO films were deposited at room temperature on a fused silica substrate using pulsed laser deposition method. In-situ post annealing was carried out at 150-450C right after film deposition. The $O_2$ partial pressures during the deposition and the post annealing was fixed to 10mTorr. The electron transport properties of the amorphous IGZO films were improved by thermal annealing. The temperature range in which the improvement of the electrical properties, was 150C~300C.