• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.1615-1622
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• 2008

We have fabricated the poly-silicon thin film transistor(TFT) which has the LDD-region with graded spacer. The devices of n-channel poly-si TFT's hydrogenated by $H_2$ and $H_2$/plasma processes were fabricated for the devices reliability. We have biased the devices under the gate voltage stress conditions of maximum leakage current. The parametric characteristics caused by gate voltage stress conditions in hydrogenated devices are investigated by measuring/analyzing the drain current, leakage current, threshold voltage($V_{th}$), sub-threshold slope(S) and transconductance($G_m$) values. As a analyzed results of characteristics parameters, the degradation characteristics in hydrogenated n-channel polysilicon TFT's are mainly caused by the enhancement of dangling bonds at the poly-Si/$SiO_2$ interface and the poly-Si grain boundary due to dissolution of Si-H bonds. The structure of novel proposed poly-Si TFT's are the simplicities of the fabrication process steps and the decrease of leakage current by reduced lateral electric field near the drain region.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.27-31
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• 2001

Transistor slicing refers to the use of multiple smaller transistors in implementing a large MOS transistor. What is special about transistor slicing is that it can reduce the effects of device non-uniformity introduced during the fabrication process. The paper presents the idea of transistor slicing and analyzes the benefits of using transistor slicing in the context of Poly-Si TFT-LCD driving.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07c
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• pp.1239-1241
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• 1995

The different hydrogen passivation effects on low-temperature processed and high-temperature processed poly-Si thin film transistors have been investigated. The hydrogen passivation on low-temperature processed poly-Si TFT results in the increase of the field-effect mobility and the decrease or the threshold voltage, while the hydrogenation increases the field-effect mobility and decreases the leakage current in high-temperature processed poly-Si TFT. The effective trap state densities of low-temperature processed poly-Si TFT before and after 5 hours of hydrogenation are estimated at about $4.0{\times}10^{12}/cm^2$ and $1.5{\times}10^{12}/cm^2$, while those of high-temperature processed poly-Si TFT are about $1.5{\times}10^{12}/cm^2$ and $1.2{\times}10^{12}/cm^2$, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.60-61
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• 2007

In this paper, the p-channel poly Si thin-film transistors (Poly-Si TFT's) using formed by solid phase crystallization (SPC) on glass substrate were fabricated. And we propose an ONO(Oxide-Nitride-Oxide) multilayer as the gate insulator for poly-Si TFT's to indicate non-volatile memory (NVM) effect. Poly-Si TFT is investigated by measuring the electrical properties of poly-Si films, such as I-V characteristics, on/off current ratio. NVM characteristics is showed by measuring the threshold voltage change of TFT through I-V characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.144-144
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• 2010

다결정 실리콘 박막트랜지스터 (poly-Si TFTs)는 벌크실리콘을 이용한 MOSFET소자에 비해 실리콘 박막의 형성이 간단하므로 대면적의 공정이 가능하며 다양한 기판위에 적용이 가능하여 LCD, OLED 등의 디스플레이 기기에 많이 이용되고 있다. 또한 poly-Si TFT는 3차원으로 적층된 소자의 제작이 가능하여 고집적의 한계를 극복할 소자로 주목받고 있다. 최근, DRAM은 캐패시터의 축소화와 구조적 공정이 한계점에 도달했으며 이를 극복하기 위하여 SOI 기판을 사용한 하나의 트랜지스터로 DRAM의 동작을 수행하는 1T-DRAM의 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 이러한 1T-DRAM 소자를 대면적과 다층구조의 공정이 가능한 poly-Si TFT를 이용하여 구현하면 초고집적의 메모리 소자를 제작 가능할 것이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 다결정 실리콘 박막트랜지스터 (poly-Si TFTs)를 이용한 1T-DRAM의 동작 특성을 연구하였다. 소자의 제작 방법으로는 200 nm의 열산화막이 성장된 p-type 실리콘 기판위에 상부실리콘으로 사용될 비정질 실리콘 박막을 LPCVD 방법으로 증착하였다. 다음으로 248 nm의 파장을 가지는 KrF 레이저를 이용한 eximer laser annealing (ELA) 공정을 통하여 결정화된 상부실리콘층에 TFT 소자를 제작하여 전기적 특성을 평가하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.462-465
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• 2009

Schottky barrier thin film transistors (SB-TFT) on polycrystalline silicon(poly-Si) are fabricated by platinum silicided source/drain for p-type SB-TFT. High quality poly-Si film were obtained by crystallizing the amorphous Si film with excimer laser annealing (ELA) or solid phase crystallization (SPC) method, The fabricated poly-Si SB-TFTs showed low leakage current level and a large on/off current ratio larger than 10), Significant improvement of electrical characteristics were obtained by the additional forming gas annealing in 2% $H_2/N_2$ ambient, which is attributed to the termination of dangling bond at the poly-Si grain boundaries as well as the reduction of interface trap states at gate oxide/poly-Si channel.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.292-297
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• 2003

We fabricated a single crystal silicon thin film transistor for active matrix organic light emitting displays(AMOLEDs) using silicon on insulator wafer (SOI wafer). Poly crystal silicon thin film transistor(poly-Si TFT) Is actively researched and developed nowsdays for a pixel switching devices of AMOLEDs. However, poly-Si TFT has some disadvantages such as high off-state leakage currents and low field-effect mobility due to a trap of grain boundary in active channel. While single crystal silicon TFT has many advantages such as high field effect mobility, low off-state leakage currents, low power consumption because of the low threshold voltage and simultaneous integration of driving ICs on a substrate. In our experiment, we compared the property of poly-Si TFT with that of SOI TFT. Poly-Si TFT exhibited a field effect mobility of 34 $\textrm{cm}^2$/Vs, an off-state leakage current of about l${\times}$10$\^$-9/ A at the gate voltage of 10 V, a subthreshold slope of 0.5 V/dec and on/off ratio of 10$\^$-4/, a threshold voltage of 7.8 V. Otherwise, single crystal silicon TFT on SOI wafer exhibited a field effect mobility of 750 $\textrm{cm}^2$/Vs, an off-state leakage current of about 1${\times}$10$\^$-10/ A at the gate voltage of 10 V, a subthreshold slope of 0.59 V/dec and on/off ratio of 10$\^$7/, a threshold voltage of 6.75 V. So, we observed that the properties of single crystal silicon TFT using SOI wafer are better than those of Poly Si TFT. For the pixel driver in AMOLEDs, the best suitable pixel driver is single crystal silicon TFT using SOI wafer.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.146-146
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• 1998

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.718-722
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• 2006

The dependence of n-channel 2 shot SLS poly-Si TFT characteristics on the DOS (density of states) parameters was investigated by using a device simulation. Device performances were most sensitive to the DOS of poly-Si/gate insulator (GI) interface and poly-Si active layer. Deep level states at the poly-Si/GI interfaces strongly affect the subthreshold slope.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.229-235
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• 2002

This paper presents the fabrication of polycrystalline thin film transistor(TFT) using sequential lateral solidification(SLS) of amorphous silicon. The fabricated SLS TFT showed high Performance suitable for active matrix liquid crystal display(AMLCD). The SLS process involves (1) a complete melting of selected area via irradiation through a patterned mask, and (2) a precisely controlled pulse translation of the sample with respect to the mask over a distance shorter than the super lateral growth(SLG) distance so that lateral growth extended over a number of iterative steps. The SLS experiment was performed with 550$\AA$ a-Si using 308nm XeCl laser having $2\mu\textrm{m}$ width. Irradiated laser energy density is 310mJ/$\textrm{cm}^2$ and pulse duration time was 25ns. The translation distance was 0.6$\mu$m/pulse, 0.8$\mu$m/pulse respectively. As a result, a directly solidified grain was obtained. Thin film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated on the poly-Si film made by SLS process. The characteristics of fabricated SLS p -type poly-Si TFT device with 2$\mu\textrm{m}$ channel width and 2$\mu\textrm{m}$ channel length showed the mobility of 115.5$\textrm{cm}^2$/V.s, the threshold voltage of -1.78V, subthreshold slope of 0.29V/dec, $I_{off}$ current of 7$\times$10$^{-l4}$A at $V_{DS}$ =-0.1V and $I_{on}$ / $I_{off}$ ratio of 2.4$\times$10$^{7}$ at $V_{DS}$ =-0.1V. As a result, SLS TFT showed superior characteristics to conventional poly-Si TFTs with identical geometry.y.y.y.