Measurements of 1/f Noise in A-Si:H Pin Diodes and Thin-Film-Transistors
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in MRS Proceedings
Abstract
We measured the equivalent noise charge of a-Si:H pin diodes (5 ∼ 45 μm i-layer) with a pulse shaping time of 2.5 μ.sec under reverse biases up to 30 V/μm and analyzed it as a four component noise source. The frequency spectra of 1/f noise in the soft-breakdown region and of the Nyquist noise from contact resistance of diodes were measured. Using the conversion equations for a CR-RC shaper, we identified the contact resistance noise and the 1/f noise as the main noise sources in the low bias and high bias regions respectively. The 1/f noise of a-Si:H TFTs with channel length of 15 μm was measured to be the dominant component up to ∼100kHz for both saturation and linear regions.Keywords
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