Characteristics of Plasma-Enhanced-Chemical-Vapor-Deposition Tetraethylorthosilicate Oxide and Thin-Film-Transistor Application

Abstract
In order to make application to the low-temperature thin-film-transistor (TFT) process possible, the deposition of SiO2 films by plasma-enhanced-chemical-vapor-deposition (PECVD) using tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) was investigated. It was shown that the oxide films with low Si-OH content had good electrical properties: for example, low interface state density of 5×1010 cm-2 eV-1 and high breakdown strength of 8 MV/cm. In addition, polycrystalline-silicon (poly-Si) TFT's employing TEOS-SiO2 films as gate insulators were fabricated and examined. It was confirmed that the TEOS-PECVD method was a promising method for forming gate insulators. This paper reports on TEOS-SiO2 films and poly-Si TFT's.

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