Impacts of Vertically Stacked Monolithic 3D-IC Process on Characteristics of Underlying Thin-Film Transistor

Autor: William Cheng-Yu Ma, Yan-Jia Huang, Po-Jen Chen, Jhe-Wei Jhu, Yan-Shiuan Chang, Ting-Hsuan Chang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, Vol 8, Pp 724-730 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2168-6734
DOI: 10.1109/JEDS.2020.3009350
Popis: In this work, the high-performance junctionless-mode (JL) and low-power inversion-mode (IM) polycrystalline-silicon (poly-Si) thin-film transistors (TFTs) with nanosheet channels (less than 10-nm in thickness) are vertically integrated in monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D-IC) structure. Both JL and IM TFTs can exhibit high on/off current ratio over 107 to demonstrate their performance. The JL TFT has much higher on-state current ~ 24 times than it of the IM TFT. And the IM-TFT has much lower SS ~ 0.104 V/decade and off-current ~ 0.04 times than them of the JL TFT. However, the fabrication of the top-devices (JL TFTs) would degrade the performance of underlying-devices (IM TFTs), resulting in the threshold voltage shift of the IM TFTs from 0.61 to 2.17 V, SS increase from 0.104 to 0.218 V/decade and on-state current degradation from 16 to 3 mA. In order to further understand the reasons, the IM TFT with top-device removal process is also fabricated, which exhibits a partial recovery in performance. The results indicate the presence and fabrication process of the top-device would lead to the defect generation in the underlying-device. The results provide a new consideration for monolithic 3D-IC manufacturing technology.
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