• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2006년도 6th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.1162-1165
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• 2006

In this paper, the characteristics of polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (poly- Si TFTs) fabricated on polymer substrates are investigated. The a-Si films was laser annealed by using a XeCl excimer laser and a four-mask-processed poly-Si TFT was fabricated with fully self-aligned top gate structure. The fabricated nMOS TFT showed field-effect mobility of ${\sim}30\;cm^2/Vs$, on/off ratio of $10^5$ and threshold voltage of 5 V.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1407-1411
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• 2003

Due to the heat confinement in the shallow region of the target for a short time scale, pulsed laser annealing has received increasing interest for the fabrication of poly-Si thin film transistors(TFTs) on glass as a low cost substrate in the flat panel displays. The formation and growth mechanisms of poly silicon(poly-Si) grains in thin films are investigated using an excimer laser crystallization system. To understand the crystallization mechanism, the grain formations are observed by FESEM analysis. The optical reflectance and transmittance during the crystallization process are measured using HeNe laser optics. A two-step ELC(Excimer Laser Crystallization) process is applied to enhance the grain formation uniformity.

• 한국레이저가공학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2003

Due to the heat confinement in the shallow region of the target for a short time scale, pulsed laser annealing has received an increasing interest for the fabrication of poly-Si thin film transistors(TFTs) on glass as a low cost substrate in the flat panel displays. The formation and growth mechanisms of poly silicon(poly-Si) grains in thin films are investigated using an excimer laser crystallization system. To understand the crystallization mechanism, the grain formations are observed by FESEM photography. The optical reflectance and transmittance during the crystallization process are measured using HeNe laser optics. A two-step ELC(Excimer Laser Crystallization) process is applied to enhance the grain formation uniformity.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.33-36
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• 2009

A new hybrid silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) fabrication process using the DPSS laser crystallization technique was developed in this study to realize low-temperature poly-Si (LTPS) and a-Si:H TFTs on the same substrate as a backplane of the active-matrix liquid crystal flat-panel display (AMLCD). LTPS TFTs were integrated into the peripheral area of the activematrix LCD panel for the gate driver circuit, and a-Si:H TFTs were used as a switching device of the pixel electrode in the active area. The technology was developed based on the current a-Si:H TFT fabrication process in the bottom-gate, back-channel etch-type configuration. The ion-doping and activation processes, which are required in the conventional LTPS technology, were thus not introduced, and the field effect mobility values of $4\sim5cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ and $0.5cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ for the LTPS and a-Si:H TFTs, respectively, were obtained. The application of this technology was demonstrated on the 14.1" WXGA+(1440$\times$900) AMLCD panel, and a smaller area, lower power consumption, higher reliability, and lower photosensitivity were realized in the gate driver circuit that was fabricated in this process compared with the a-Si:H TFT gate driver integration circuit

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.12-16
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• 2010

The effect of the crystallization and activated annealing of Si films using an excimer laser and the new CW blue laser are described and compared with furnace annealing for application in advanced TFTs and for future applications. Pulsed excimer laser annealing (ELA) is currently being used extensively as a low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) process on glass substrates as its efficiency is high in the ultra-violet (UV) region for thin Si films with thickness of 40-60 nm. ELA enables extremely low resistivity relating to high crystallinity for both the n- and p-type Si films. On the other hand, CW blue laser diode annealing (BLDA) enables the smooth Si surface to have arbitral crystal grains from micro-grains to an anisotropic huge grain structure only by controlling its power density. Both annealing techniques are expected to be applied in the future advanced TFT systems.

• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제35D권6호
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• pp.46-53
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• 1998

저온 공정으로 제작되는 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터의 활성층을 이중 활성층(a-Si/a-SiN/sub x/)으로 제작하는 공정을 제안하고 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터를 제작하였다. 본 논문에서는 활성층의 아래쪽 실리콘 박막에 약간의 질소기를 첨가한 후 그 위에 순수한 비정질 실리콘 박막을 증착하여 엑시머 레이저의 에너지로 비정질 실리콘 박막을 결정화하여 사용하였다. 이중 활성층 (a-Si/a-SiN/sub x/)의 경우, 하부층의 NH₃/SiH₄ 유속비가 증가함에 따라, 상부 a-Si 층의 결정 성장이 촉진됨을 알 수 있었으나, n/sup +/ poly-SiN/sub x/ 층의 전도도 특성을 고려해 볼 때, NH₃/SiH₄ 유속비는 0.11의 상한치를 가짐을 알 수 있었다. 전계 방출 전류에 영향을 미치는 광학적 밴드갭의 경우, poly-Si 박막에 비해 증가하였으며, NH₃/SiH₄ 유속비가 0.11 이하에서도 0.1eV 정도의 증가를 보여, 이로 인하여 소자 제작시 전계 방출 전류가 억제될 것을 예상할 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.84-86
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 역 방향 전하공핍(reverse bias depletion)을 적용한 새로운 구조의 다결정 실리콘 박막 트랜지스터(poly-Si TFT)를 제안한다. 제안된 소자는 kink 전류 억제를 목적으로 counter-doped(p+) 영역이 채널 내로 확장되어 유효채널 폭을 감소시키는 구조이다. 감소된 채널 폭에 의하여 포화 영역의 채널 내 저항이 증가하고, 훌 전류를 통하여 kink 효과가 억제된다. 제작된 새로운 poly-Si TFT는 기존의 소자에 비해 효과적으로 kink 전류를 억제할 수 있음을 실험을 통해 검증하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1994년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1442-1444
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• 1994

The short channel poly-Si TFT is important in aspect of transistor characteristics, packing density and aperture ratio. In this paper, we have reported the degradation phenomena of short channel poly-Si TFT's which had significantly degraded device parameters, such as threshold voltage shift and a great asymmetric degradation, due to gate and drain electrical stress. The reduced effective channel length and expanded depletion region may be the main reason of these significant device parameters.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2000년도 제1회 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.153-154
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• 2000

Large size poly-Si TFT-LCDs have been fabricated using p-channel thin film transistors for notebook PC application. We have designed and implemented the data sampling circuit and gate drivers that operate with low power consumption and high reliability. The gate driver has a redundant structure. We have realized the uniform and excellent display quality comparable to that of CMOS module. The reliability of panel is investigated and discussed by measuring the bias stability of transistors.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.339-343
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• 1999

This paper reports the characteristics of poly-Si TFT unitary CMOS circuits fabricated with various techniques, in order to investigate the optimum process conditions. The active films were deposited by PECVD and LPCVD using $SiH_4\; and\; Si_2H_6$ as source gas, and annealed by SPC and ELA methods. The impurity doping of the oource and drain electrodes was performed by ion implantation and ion shower. In order to investigate the AC characteristics of the poly-Si TFTs processed with various methods, we have examined the current driving characteristics of the polt-Si TFT and the frequency characteristics of 23-stage CMOS ring oscillators. Ithas been observed that the circuits fabricated using $Si_2H_6$ with low-temperature process of ELA exhibit high switching speed and current driving performances, thus suitable for real application of large area electronics.