Polycrystalline Indium Gallium Tin Oxide Thin-Film Transistors With High Mobility Exceeding 100 cm²/Vs

Abstract

This letter reports the fabrication of high performance polycrystalline InGaSnO (IGTO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) at a low temperature of 400 °C. The microstructure of IGTO films was analyzed using X-ray diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The fabricated polycrystalline IGTO TFTs exhibited an unexpected high mobility of 116.5 cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> /Vs, threshold voltage of 0.47 V, low subthreshold gate swing of 134 mV/decade, and I <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">ON/OFF</sub> ratio of >1 × 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">9</sup> . Moreover, the stable behavior against external gate bias stress was observed for crystalline IGTO TFTs, which was attributed to the high degree of metal-oxygen lattice ordering.