Low-temperature dopant activation and its application to polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors

15 July 1996

journal article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 69 (3) , 380-382
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.118067

Abstract

Low-temperature activation of dopants in amorphous silicon films was achieved by a new method and high-performance polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors were fabricated through its application. It was found that the dopants implanted into amorphous silicon were activated simultaneously with the crystallization of amorphous silicon. With the help of a thin nickel layer, the thermal budget for dopant activation and crystallization was considerably reduced, from 600 °C (30 h) to 500 °C (5 h). Even without plasma hydrogenation, the n-channel polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors fabricated at temperatures below 500 °C showed a mobility of 120 cm2/V s, which is much higher than that of conventional devices fabricated at 600 °C.

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