Simultaneously Defined Semiconducting Channel Layer Using Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing of a Passivation Layer for Oxide Thin-Film Transistors
| Autor: | Jae Won Na, Hyung Tae Kim, I. Sak Lee, Byung Ha Kang, Jusung Chung, Seonghwan Hong, Hyun Jae Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Fabrication
Materials science Passivation business.industry Transistor 02 engineering and technology 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Oxide thin-film transistor 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences law.invention law Thin-film transistor Optoelectronics General Materials Science Electrohydrodynamics 0210 nano-technology business Layer (electronics) NMOS logic |
| Zdroj: | ACS applied materialsinterfaces. 12(35) |
| ISSN: | 1944-8252 |
| Popis: | A simple fabrication method for homojunction-structured Al-doped indium-tin oxide (ITO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) using an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) jet-printed Al2O3 passivation layer with specific line (WAl2O3) is proposed. After EHD jet printing, the specific region of the ITO film below the Al2O3 passivation layer changes from a conducting electrode to a semiconducting channel layer simultaneously upon the formation of the passivation layer during thermal annealing. The channel length of the fabricated TFTs is defined by WAl2O3, which can be easily changed with varying EHD jet printing conditions, i.e., no need of replacing the mask for varying patterns. Accordingly, the drain current and resistance of the fabricated TFTs can be modified by varying the WAl2O3. Using the proposed method, a transparent n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) inverter with an enhancement load can be fabricated; the effective resistance of load and drive TFTs is easily tuned by varying the processing conditions using this simple method. The fabricated NMOS inverter exhibits an output voltage gain of 7.13 with a supply voltage of 10 V. Thus, the proposed approach is promising as a low-cost and flexible manufacturing system for multi-item small-lot-sized production of Internet of Things devices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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