Numerous studies have addressed the utilization of oxide thin-film transistor (TFT)-based complementary logic circuits that are based on two-dimensional (2D) planar structures. However, there are fundamental limits to the 2D planar structured complementary logic circuits, such as a large dimension and a large parasitic resistance. This work demonstrated a vertically stacked three-dimensional complementary inverter composed of a p-channel tin monoxide (SnO) TFT and an n-channel indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) TFT. A bottom-gate p-channel SnO TFT was formed on the top-gate n-channel IGZO TFT with a shared common gate electrode. The fabricated vertically stacked complementary inverter exhibited full swing characteristics with a voltage gain of ~33.6, a high noise margin of 3.13 V, and a low noise margin of 3.16 V at a supplied voltage of 10 V. The achieved voltage gain of the fabricated complementary inverter was higher than that of the vertically stacked complementary inverters composed of other oxide TFTs in previous works. In addition, we showed that the vertically stacked complementary inverter exhibited excellent visible-light photoresponse. This indicates that the oxide TFT-based vertically stacked complementary inverter can be used as a sensitive photo-sensor operating in the visible spectral range with the voltage read-out scheme.
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