Issue 3, 2018

Stacked indium oxide/zinc oxide heterostructures as semiconductors in thin film transistor devices: a case study using atomic layer deposition

Abstract

Multi-layer heterostructure oxide semiconductors employing a layer-by-layer deposition of alternating indium oxide and zinc oxide thin films generated via atomic layer deposition (ALD) are investigated for their feasibility into high performance thin film transistors (TFT). The successful deposition of uniform film thickness across the alternating indium oxide and zinc oxide deposition at 200 °C is achieved using trimethyl indium (TMI), diethyl zinc (DEZ) and water as oxidizing agent. The as-prepared polycrystalline material shows a conductive behaviour which upon additional mild annealing between 250–300 °C demonstrates a high TFT device performance. In addition, insights into the dependency of the defect passivation gradient within the multilayer upon thermal annealing of the oxide stack are presented. Studies towards an optimised film thickness result in a high device performance in enhancement mode with a saturation field-effect mobility (μsat.) of 6.5 cm2 V−1 s−1 and an on/off ratio (Ion/off) of 4.6 × 107 using a deliberately large width to length channel ratio (W/L = 500). The TFT performance turned out to be dependent on the position of the individual oxide layers within the stack and the number of heterostructure stacks. These findings on the influence of semiconductor stack formation allow for a better understanding on the formation of the active semiconductor channel and serve towards the applicability of ALD based heterostructure metal oxide semiconductors in next generation electronics.

Graphical abstract: Stacked indium oxide/zinc oxide heterostructures as semiconductors in thin film transistor devices: a case study using atomic layer deposition

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2017
Accepted
04 Nov 2017
First published
06 Nov 2017

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,6, 464-472

Stacked indium oxide/zinc oxide heterostructures as semiconductors in thin film transistor devices: a case study using atomic layer deposition

S. Sanctis, J. Krausmann, C. Guhl and J. J. Schneider, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 464 DOI: 10.1039/C7TC03724D

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements