• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.249-254
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• 2015

Solution-derived amorphous indium-gallium-zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film-transistor (TFTs) were developed using a microwave irradiation treatment at low process temperature below $300^{\circ}C$. Compared to conventional furnace-annealing, the a-IGZO TFTs annealed by microwave irradiation exhibited better electrical characteristics in terms of field effect mobility, SS, and on/off current ratio, although the annealing temperature of microwave irradiation is much lower than that of furnace annealing. The microwave irradiated TFTs showed a smaller $V_{th}$ shift under the positive gate bias stress (PGBS) and negative gate bias stress (NGBS) tests owing to a lower ratio of oxygen vacancies, surface absorbed oxygen molecules, and reduced interface trapping in a-IGZO. Therefore, microwave irradiation is very promising to low-temperature process.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.531-533
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• 2009

We've studied the optical and electrical properties of amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistor (a-IGZO TFT). When the a-IGZO TFT was illuminated at a wavelength of 660 nm, the offstate drain current was slightly increased, while below 550 nm it was increased significantly. The a-IGZO TFT was extremely sensitive, with deep-level defects at approximately 2.25 eV near the midgap.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.4-4
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• 2010

Single-crystalline IGZO (Indium-Gallium-Zinc oxide) was fabricated on c-sapphire substrate. Single crystal ZnO was used as a buffer layer, and post-annealing was treated in $900^{\circ}C$ for crystallization of IGZO. Crystallized IGZO formed superlattice structure spontaneously induced to c-axis direction by ZnO butTer layer, the composition of IGZO was varied by amount of ZnO. Crystallinity and composition of IGZO was analyzed by X-ray Diffraction and Transmission Electron Microscopy.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.76.2-76.2
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.479-479
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• 2013

산화물 반도체 물질을 이용한 Thin film transistor (TFT) 소자는 기존의 비정질 Si TFT와 저온 다결정 Si TFT 소자가 가지지 못하는 장점들이 보고되면서 차세대 디스플레이용 소자로 주목을 받고 있다. 그 중 TFT의 채널 물질로 a-IGZO가 많이 활용되고 있다. a-IGZO의 활용이 더 많아지고 있는 이유는 저온공정이 가능하고 3.2 eV의 큰 밴드갭으로 투명하며 높은 균일도, 캐리어 이동도를 모두 가지고 있기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 산화물 물질인 IGZO를 채널 층으로 사용한 TFT소자에서 IGZO의 캐리어인 전자의 이동경로를 금속을 통하여 이동하게 함으로써 전기적 특성의 변화를 관찰하였다. TFT는 다수 캐리어가 게이트 전압에 의하여 박막 아래쪽에 채널을 형성하여 동작한다. 이 때 IGZO박막과 SiO2 사이의 Al을 증착하여 다수 캐리어인 전자의 이동도를 향상시켰다. 전극으로 사용되어지는 Al은 IGZO박막과 ohmic contant이기 때문에 전자의 이동이 어렵지 않기 때문이다. 소자 제작은 게이트로 도핑된 P형 기판을 사용하였고 게이트 절연체로 SiO2 200 nm를 증착하였다. 채널층로 IGZO를 증착하기 전에 게이트 절연체 위에 evaporation으로 Al을 20 nm를 증착하였다. 이때 mask는 $2.4{\times}10^{-4}cm^2$ 크기의 dot 형태를 사용하였다. Al을 증착 후 RF sputtering으로 IGZO를 30 nm 증착하였으며 $350^{\circ}C$에서 90 min 동안 열처리하였다. 소스와 드레인은 evaporation으로 Al을 100 nm 증착하였다. HB 4145B 측정기로 I-V 그래프를 통하여 전기적 특성의 변화를 관찰하였다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.46-50
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• 2016

In this study, we have investigated the effect of the substrate temperature and hydrogen flow rate on the characteristics of IGZO thin films for the TCO(transparent conducting oxide). For this purpose, IGZO thin films were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering at room temperature and $300^{\circ}C$ with various $H_2$ flow rate. In order to investigate the influences of the hydrogen, the flow rate of hydrogen in argon mixing gas has been changed from 0.1sccm to 1.0sccm. IGZO thin films deposited at room temperature show amorphous structure, whereas IGZO thin films deposited at $300^{\circ}C$ show crystalline structure having an (222) preferential orientation. The electrical resistivity of the amorphous-IGZO films deposited at R.T. was lower than that of the crystalline-IGZO thin films deposited at $300^{\circ}C$. The increase of electrical resistivity with increasing substrate temperature was interpreted in terms of the decrease of the charge carrier mobility. The transmittance of the IGZO films deposited at $300^{\circ}C$ was decreased deposited with hydrogen gas.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.170-173
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• 2017

In this study, we fabricate amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) with three different gate electrode materials of Al, Mo and Pt on plastic substrates and investigate their electrical characteristics. Compared to an a-IGZO TFT with Al gate electrode, the threshold voltage of an a-IGZO TFT with a Pt electrode decreases from -4.2 to -0.3 V. and the filed-effect mobility is improved from 15.8 to $22.1cm^2/V{\cdot}s$. The threshold voltage shift of the TFT is affected by the difference between the work function of the gate electrode and the Fermi energy of the channel layer. Moreover, the Pt gate electrode is considered to be the suitable material in terms of the electrical characteristics of the TFT. In addition, an description on an a-IGZO TFT with a Mo electrode will be given here.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.329-332
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• 2010

In order to investigate the effect of tail state on the electrical and the optical properties in amorphous IGZO(a-IGZO), a-IGZO films were deposited at room temperature on fused silica substrats using pulsed laser deposition method. The laser pulse energy was used as the processing parameter. In-situ post annealing was carried out at $150^{\circ}C$ right after the film deposition. The $O_2$ partial pressure during the deposition and the post annealing was fixed to 10mTorr. The carrier mobility of the a-IGZO films had a range from 2 to $18\;cm^2/Vs$ at carrier concentrations greater than $10^{18}\;cm^{-3}$. As the laser energy density increased, the Hall mobility increased. And post annealing improved the Hall mobility, as well. The optical property was examined using the ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy. The a-IGZO films that have low Hall mobility exhibited stronger and broader absorption tails in >3.0 eV region. Post annealing reduced the intensity of the tail-like absorption. The absorption tail in a-IGZO films is an important factor which affects the electrical and the optical properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.3-3
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• 2010

We investigated the influence of the indium content on the threshold voltage ($V_{th}$) shift of sol-gel-derived indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs). Surplus indium composition ratio into IGZO decreases the value of $V_{th}$ of IGZO TFTs showed huge $V_{th}$ shift in the negative direction. $V_{th}$ shift decreases from 10 to -28.2V as Indium composition ratio is increased. Because the free electron density is increased according to variation of the Indium composition ratio.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2007

The authors report on the fabrication of thin film transistors (TFTs) that use amorphous indium-gallium-zinc oxide (a-IGZO) channel and have the channel length (L) and width (W) patterned by dry etching. To prevent the plasma damage of active channel, a 100-nm-thckness $SiO_{x}$ by PECVD was adopted as an etch-stopper structure. IGZO TFT (W/L=10/50${\mu}m$) fabricated on glass exhibited the high performance mobility of $35.8\;cm^2/Vs$, a subthreshold gate voltage swing of $0.59V/dec$, and $I_{on/off}$ of $4.9{\times}10^6$. In addition, 4.1” transparent QCIF active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display were successfully fabricated, which was driven by a-IGZO TFTs.