• 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 Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.77-78
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• 2008

ZnO thin films were deposited on glass substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) at various oxygen pressures. We observed structural, electrical and optical properties of ZnO films. Structural properties were analysed by XRD and FE-SEM. Electrical properties for applications of transparent thin film transistors (TTFTs) were measured by hall measurement using van der pauw methods at room temperature. In order to apply in transparent devices, we measured transmittance, and optical bandgap energy was calculated by Tauc's equation. The results showed that ZnO films deposited at 200mTorr oxygen pressure were applicable to channel layers of transparent TFTs. It had high hall mobilities ($52.92cm^2$/V-s) and suitable transmittance at visible wavelength region (above 80%).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.471-471
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• 2013

Highly stable and high performance amorphous oxide semiconductor thin film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated using 4-mercaptophenol (4MP) doped ZnO by atomic layer deposition (ALD). The 4 MP concentration in ZnO films were varied from 1.7% to 5.6% by controlling Zn: 4MP pulses. The carrier concentrations in ZnO thin films were controlled from $1.017{\times}10^{20}$/$cm^3$ to $2,903{\times}10^{14}$/$cm^3$ with appropriate amount of 4MP doping. The 4.8% 4MP doped ZnO TFT revealed good device mobility performance of $8.4cm^2V-1s-1$ and on/off current ratio of $10^6$. Such 4MP doped ZnO TFTs were stable under ambient conditions for 12 months without any apparent degradation in their electrical properties. Our result suggests that 4 MP doping can be useful technique to produce more reliable oxide semiconductor TFT.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.543-545
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• 2009

With injection-type source delivery system of atomic layer deposition (ALD), bottom-contact and bottom-gate thin-film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated with a poly-4-vinyphenol polymeric dielectric for the first time. The properties of the ZnO TFT were greatly influenced by the device structure and the process conditions. The zinc oxide TFTs exhibited a channel mobility of 0.43 $cm^2$/Vs, a threshold voltage of 0.85 V, a subthreshold slope of 3.30 V/dec, and an on-to-off current ratio of above $10^6$ with solid saturation.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.137-143
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• 2010

Oxide semiconductors Thin-film transistors are an exemplified one owing to its excellent ambient stability and optical transparency. In particular zinc oxide (ZnO) has been reported because It has stability in air, a high electron mobility, transparency and low light sensitivity, compared to any other materials. For this reasons, ZnO TFTs have been studied actively. Furthermore, we expected that would be satisfy the demands of flexible display in new generation. In order to do that, ZnO TFTs must be fabricated that flexible substrate can sustain operating temperature. So, In this paper we have studied low-temperature process of zinc oxide(ZnO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) based on silicon nitride ($SiN_x$)/cross-linked poly-vinylphenol (C-PVP) as gate dielectric. TFTs based on oxide fabricated by Low-temperature process were similar to electrical characteristics in comparison to conventional TFTs. These results were in comparison to device with $SiN_x$/low-temperature C-PVP or $SiN_x$/conventional C-PVP. The ZnO TFTs fabricated by low-temperature process exhibited a field-effect mobility of $0.205\;cm^2/Vs$, a thresholdvoltage of 13.56 V and an on/off ratio of $5.73{\times}10^6$. As a result, We applied experimental for flexible PET substrate and showed that can be used to ZnO TFTs for flexible application.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.420-420
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• 2014

최근, 과학 기술이 발달함에 따라 현장에서의 실시간 검사 및 자가 지단 등 질병 치유에 대한 사람들의 관심이 증가하고 있으며, 이에 따라 의료, 환경, 산업과 같은 많은 분야에서 바이오 센서에 대한 연구가 활발하게 이루어지고 있다. 그 중, EGFET는 전해질 속의 각종 이온 농도를 전기적으로 측정하는 바이오 센서로, 외부 환경으로부터 안전하고, 제작이 쉬우며, 재활용이 가능하여 비용을 절감 할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다 [1]. EGFET는 감지부와 FET부로 분리된 구조를 가지고 있으며, 감지부의 감지막으로는 Al2O3, HfO2, $TiO_2$, SnO2 와 같은 다양한 물질들이 사용되고 있다. 그 중, SnO2는 우수한 감도와 안정성을 가지고 있는 물질로 추가적인 열처리 공정 없이도 우수한 감지 특성을 나타내기 때문에 본 연구에서 감지막으로 사용하였다. 한편, EGFETs 의 FET부로는 기존의 비정질 실리콘 TFTs 에 비해 10배 이상의 높은 이동도와 온/오프 전류비를 갖는 InGaZnO 를 채널층으로 사용한 TFTs 를 사용하였다. a-IGZO 는 넓은 밴드 갭으로 인해 가시광 영역에서 투명하며, 향후 투명 바이오센서 제작 시, 물질들 사이의 반응을 전기적 신호뿐만 아니라 광학적인 분석 방법으로도 검출이 가능하기에 고 신뢰성을 갖는 센서의 제작이 가능할 것으로 기대된다. 한편, a-IGZO TFTs 의 경우 우수한 전기적 특성을 나타냄에도 불구하고 소자 동작 시 문턱 전압이 불안정하다는 단점이 있으며 [2], 이러한 문제의 개선과 향후 투명 기판 위에서의 소자 제작을 위해서는 저온 열처리 공정이 필수적이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 저온 열처리 공정인 u-wave 열처리를 통하여 a-IGZO TFTs 의 전기적 특성 및 안정성을 향상시켰으며, 9.51 [$cm2/V{\cdot}s$]의 이동도와 135 [mV/dec] 의 SS값, 0.99 [V]의 문턱 전압, 1.18E+08의 온/오프 전류 비를 갖는 고성능 스위칭 TFTs 를 제작하였다. 최종적으로, 제작된 a-IGZO TFTs 를 SnO2 감지막을 갖는 EGFETs 에 적용함으로써 우수한 감지 특성과 안정성을 갖는 바이오 센서를 제작하였다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.620-621
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• 2008

Transparent electronics has been one of the key terminologies forecasting the ubiquitous technology era. Several researchers have thus extensively developed transparent oxide-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) on glass and plastic substrates although in general high voltage operating devices have been mainly studied considering transparent display drivers. However, low voltage operating oxide TFTs with transparent electrodes are very necessary if we are aiming at logic circuit applications, for which transparent complementary or one-type channel inverters are required. The most effective and low power consuming inverter should be a form of complementary p-channel and n-channel transistors but real application of those complementary TFT inverters also requires electrical- and even photo-stabilities. Since p-type oxide TFTs have not been developed yet, we previously adopted organic pentacene TFTs for the p-channel while ZnO TFTs were chosen for n-channel on sputter-deposited $AlO_x$ film. As a result, decent inverting behavior was achieved but some electrical gate instability was unavoidable at the ZnO/$AlO_x$ channel interface. Here, considering such gate instability issues we have designed a unique transparent complementary TFT (CTFTs) inverter structure with top n-ZnO channel and bottom p-pentacene channel based on 12 nm-thin nano-oxide/self assembled monolayer laminated dielectric, which has a large dielectric strength comparable to that of thin film amorphous $Al_2O_3$. Our transparent CTFT inverter well operate under 3 V, demonstrating a maximum voltage gain of ~20, good electrical and even photoelectric stabilities. The device transmittance was over 60 % and this type of transparent inverter has never been reported, to the best of our limited knowledge.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.199-199
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• 2011

Recently, Thin film transistors (TFTs) with amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) can offer an important aspect for next generation displays with high mobility. Several oxide semiconductor such as ZnO, $SnO_2$ and InGaZnO have been extensively researched. Especially, as a well-known binary metal oxide, tin oxide ($SnO_2$), usually acts as n-type semiconductor with a wide band gap of 3.6eV. Over the past several decades intensive research activities have been conducted on $SnO_2$ in the bulk, thin film and nanostructure forms due to its interesting electrical properties making it a promising material for applications in solar cells, flat panel displays, and light emitting devices. But, its application to the active channel of TFTs have been limited due to the difficulties in controlling the electron density and n-type of operation with depletion mode. In this study, we fabricated staggered bottom-gate structure $SnO_2$-TFTs and patterned channel layer used a shadow mask. Then we compare to the performance intrinsic $SnO_2$-TFTs and doping hafnium $SnO_2$-TFTs. As a result, we suggest that can be control the defect formation of $SnO_2$-TFTs by doping hafnium. The hafnium element into the $SnO_2$ thin-films maybe acts to control the carrier concentration by suppressing carrier generation via oxygen vacancy formation. Furthermore, it can be also control the mobility. And bias stability of $SnO_2$-TFTs is improvement using doping hafnium. Enhancement of device stability was attributed to the reduced defect in channel layer or interface. In order to verify this effect, we employed to measure activation energy that can be explained by the thermal activation process of the subthreshold drain current.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.334-334
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• 2012

Transparent oxide semiconductors have recently attracted much attention as channel layer materials due to advantageous electrical and optical characteristics such as high mobility, high stability, and good transparency. In addition, transparent oxide semiconductor can be fabricated at low temperature with a low production cost and it permits highly uniform devices such as large area displays. A variety of thin film transistors (TFTs) have been studied including ZnO, InZnO, and InGaZnO as the channel layer. Recently, there are many studies for substitution of Ga in InGaZnO TFTs due to their problem, such as stability of devices. In this work, new quaternary compound materials, tantalum-indium-tin oxide (TaInSnO) thin films were fabricated by using co-sputtering and used for the active channel layer in thin film transistors (TFTs). We deposited TaInSnO films in a mixed gas (O2+Ar) atmosphere by co-sputtering from Ta and ITO targets, respectively. The electric characteristics of TaInSnO TFTs and thin films were investigated according to the RF power applied to the $Ta_2O_5$ target. The addition of Ta elements could suppress the formation of oxygen vacancies because of the stronger oxidation tendency of Ta relative to that of In or Sn. Therefore the free carrier density decreased with increasing RF power of $Ta_2O_5$ in TaInSnO thin film. The optimized characteristics of TaInSnO TFT showed an on/off current ratio of $1.4{\times}108$, a threshold voltage of 2.91 V, a field-effect mobility of 2.37 cm2/Vs, and a subthreshold swing of 0.48 V/dec.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.166-166
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• 2010

Recently, TFTs based on amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) such as ZnO, InZnO, ZnSnO, GaZnO, TiOx, InGaZnO(IGZO), SnGaZnO, etc. have been attracting a grate deal of attention as potential alternatives to existing TFT technology to meet emerging technological demands where Si-based or organic electronics cannot provide a solution. Since, in 2003, Masuda et al. and Nomura et al. have reported on transparent TFTs using ZnO and IGZO as active layers, respectively, much efforts have been devoted to develop oxide TFTs using aforementioned amorphous oxide semiconductors as their active layers. In this thesis, I report on the performance of thin-film transistors using amorphous indium gallium zinc oxides for an active channel layer at room temperature. $SiO_2$ was employed as the gate dielectric oxide. The amorphous indium gallium zinc oxides were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering. The carrier concentration of amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide was controlled by oxygen pressure in the sputtering ambient. Devices are realized that display a threshold voltage of 1.5V and an on/off ration of > $10^9$ operated as an n-type enhancement mode with saturation mobility with $9.06\;cm^2/V{\cdot}s$. The devices show optical transmittance above 80% in the visible range. In conclusion, the fabrication and characterization of thin-film transistors using amorphous indium gallium zinc oxides for an active channel layer were reported. The operation of the devices was an n-type enhancement mode with good saturation characteristics.