Amorphous InGaZnO Ultraviolet Phototransistors With a Thin Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> Layer

Abstract

The authors report the fabrication of amorphous IGZO (a-IGZO) phototransistors with a thin Ga <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> layer. It was found that the performances of the phototransistors depend strongly on the oxygen partial pressure during the deposition of the Ga <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> layer. It was also found that the fabricated devices exhibited good electrical properties with electron mobility (μ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">FE</sub> ) of 13.2 cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> /V·s, subthreshold swing (SS) of 0.13 V/decade, and ON/OFF current ratio> 5 × 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">5</sup> . Furthermore, it was found that two cutoffs exist in the devices prepared with 25% oxygen partial pressure. The deep-ultraviolet (UV)-to-visible rejection ratio and near-UV-to-visible rejection ratio of the fabricated phototransistors were 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">4</sup> and 20, respectively.