Electrical Characteristic Analysis of IGZO TFT with Poly (4-vinylphenol) Gate Insulator according to Annealing Temperature

Poly (4-vinylphenol) 게이트 절연체를 적용한 IGZO TFT의 열처리 온도에 따른 전기적 특성 분석

  • Park, Jung Hyun (Dept. of Electronic Radio Information Communication Engineering) ;
  • Jeong, Jun Kyo (Dept. of Electronic Radio Information Communication Engineering) ;
  • Kim, Yu Jeong (Dept. of Electronic Radio Information Communication Engineering) ;
  • Jun, Jung Byung (Dept. of Electronic Radio Information Communication Engineering) ;
  • Lee, Ga Won (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Chungnam National Univ.)
  • 박정현 (충남대학교 전자전파정보통신공학과) ;
  • 정준교 (충남대학교 전자전파정보통신공학과) ;
  • 김유정 (충남대학교 전자전파정보통신공학과) ;
  • 정병준 (충남대학교 전자전파정보통신공학과) ;
  • 이가원 (충남대학교 전자공학과)
  • Received : 2017.03.17
  • Accepted : 2017.03.27
  • Published : 2017.03.31

Abstract

In this paper, IGZO thin film transistor (TFT) was fabricated with cross-linked Poly (4-vinylphenol) (PVP) gate dielectric for flexible, transparent display applications. The PVP is one of the candidates for low-temperature gate insulators. MIM structure was fabricated to measure the leakage current and evaluate the insulator properties according to the annealing temperature. Low leakage current ( <0.1nA/cm2 @ 1MV/cm ) was observed at $200^{\circ}C$ annealing condition and decreases much more as the annealing temperature increases. The electrical characteristics of IGZO TFT such as subthreshold swing, mobility and ON/OFF current ratio were also improved, which shows that the performance of IGZO TFTs with PVP can be enhanced by reducing the amount of incomplete crosslinking in PVP.

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