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The Study of Fluoride Film Properties for TFT gate insulator application

Gate insulators using various fluoride films were investigated for thin film transistor applications. Conventional oxide containing materials exhibited high interface states, high $D_{it}$ gives an increased threshold voltage and poor stability of TFT. To improve TFT performances, we must reduce interface trap charge density between Si and gate insulator. In this paper, we investigated gate insulators such as such as $CaF_2$, $SrF_2$, $MgF_2$ and $BaF_2$. These materials exhibited an improvement in lattice mismatch, difference in thermal expansion coefficient, and electrical stability MIM and MIS devices were employed for an electrical characterization and structural property examination. Among the various fluoride materials, $CaF_2$ film showed an excellent lattice mismatch of 0.737%, breakdown electric field higher than 1.7MV/cm and leakage current density of $10^{-6}A/cm^2$. This paper probes a possibility of new gate insulator material for TFT application.