Hydrogen Impacts of PEALD InGaZnO TFTs Using SiOx Gate Insulators Deposited by PECVD and PEALD

• Published in: IEEE transactions on electron devices 2020-10, Vol.67 (10), p.4250-4255
• Main Authors: Jeong, Seok-Goo, Jeong, Hyun-Jun, Choi, Wan-Ho, Kim, KyoungRok, Park, Jin-Seong
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Atomic layer epitaxy; Backscattering; Chemical synthesis; Fourier transforms; Gallium; Hydrogen; Hydrogen bonding; Indium gallium zinc oxide; Infrared spectroscopy; Insulators; Logic gates; Oxide semiconductor; Photoelectrons; Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition; Plasma temperature; plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD); Recoil; Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy; Semiconductor devices; Silicon dioxide; Spectroscopy; Spectrum analysis; subchannel formation by hydrogen diffusion; Thin film transistors; thin-film transistors (TFTs); Threshold voltage; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Zinc oxide
• ISSN: 0018-9383; 1557-9646
• DOI: 10.1109/TED.2020.3017145

Amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) deposited by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) thin-film transistors (TFTs) was fabricated using SiO 2 gate insulators synthesized via plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD, device A) or PEALD (device B). The electrical performance of B devices was higher than that of device A. The mobilities of A and B devices were 19.39 and 21.11 cm 2 /Vs, and the subthreshold slopes were 0.25 and 0.22 V /decade, respectively. In addition, the device reliability of A devices shows an abnormal threshold voltage ( {V}_{\text {th}} ) shift of -1.25 V under positive bias temperature stress (PBTS), caused by hydrogen diffusion from the gate insulator to the channel region near the source/drain electrode. However, B devices had a normal {V}_{\text {th}} shift of +2.87 V. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) results showed that PECVD SiO 2 has a large amount of hydrogen bonding, such as Si-OH, compared to PEALD SiO 2 . Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy (RBS) and elastic recoil detection (ERD) measurement results confirmed that the hydrogen content of PECVD SiO 2 was 2.24%, whereas that of PEALD SiO 2 was lower at 1.45%.