Materials 2014, 7(8), 5761-5768; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma7085761
A Self-Aligned a-IGZO Thin-Film Transistor Using a New Two-Photo-Mask Process with a Continuous Etching Scheme
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Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
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Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
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Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Lee-Ming Institute of Technology, New Taipei City 243, Taiwan
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Received: 26 June 2014 / Revised: 24 July 2014 / Accepted: 30 July 2014 / Published: 11 August 2014
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Compound Semiconductor Materials 2014)
Abstract
Minimizing the parasitic capacitance and the number of photo-masks can improve operational speed and reduce fabrication costs. Therefore, in this study, a new two-photo-mask process is proposed that exhibits a self-aligned structure without an etching-stop layer. Combining the backside-ultraviolet (BUV) exposure and backside-lift-off (BLO) schemes can not only prevent the damage when etching the source/drain (S/D) electrodes but also reduce the number of photo-masks required during fabrication and minimize the parasitic capacitance with the decreasing of gate overlap length at same time. Compared with traditional fabrication processes, the proposed process yields that thin-film transistors (TFTs) exhibit comparable field-effect mobility (9.5 cm2/V·s), threshold voltage (3.39 V), and subthreshold swing (0.3 V/decade). The delay time of an inverter fabricated using the proposed process was considerably decreased. View Full-TextKeywords:
amorphous indium–gallium–zinc–oxide (a-IGZO); back-side exposure; self-aligned process; thin-film transistor (TFT); two-photo-mask process; backside-lift-off (BLO)
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Fan, C.-L.; Shang, M.-C.; Li, B.-J.; Lin, Y.-Z.; Wang, S.-J.; Lee, W.-D. A Self-Aligned a-IGZO Thin-Film Transistor Using a New Two-Photo-Mask Process with a Continuous Etching Scheme. Materials 2014, 7, 5761-5768.
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