Comparison between Effects of PECVD-SiO_xand Thermal ALD-AlO_xPassivation Layers on Characteristics of Amorphous InGaZnO TFTs

Abstract

We investigated the effects of the passivation layer on the characteristics of amorphous InGaZnO4 thin-film transistors (a-InGaZnO TFTs) by comparing AlOx film by thermal atomic layer deposition (TALD-AlOx) with SiOx film by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD-SiOx). The PECVD-SiOx TFTs before and after final annealing exhibited conductive and hump characteristics, respectively. In contrast, both TALD-AlOx TFTs before and after final annealing exhibited enhancement characteristics. From secondary ion mass spectroscopy analysis, we found that TALD-AlOx effectively suppresses H injection into the underneath of the a-InGaZnO layer compared with PECVD-SiOx. We believe such suppression of H injection leads to the enhancement characteristics of TALD-AlOx TFTs. On the other hand, the conductive and hump characteristics of PECVD-SiOx TFTs may be attributed to a higher concentration of H injected into the a-InGaZnO layer and ion bombardment due to PECVD. From these results, we argue that plasma-free TALD-AlOx is effective for achieving good characteristics in a-InGaZnO TFTs.

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