Characteristics of amorphous silicon staggered-electrode thin-film transistors
- 15 July 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 45 (2) , 171-173
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.95158
Abstract
Amorphous silicon staggered-electrode thin-film transistors (TFT’s) can show current crowding near the origin in the output characteristics. The degree of current crowding is governed by the voltage dependence of the current flowing from the n+ contact to the conducting channel. This current is a space-charge-limited current whose magnitude depends on the bulk density of states in the undoped intrinsic layer. For a 0.5-μm-thick i layer, calculations predict negligible current crowding for N(E)3×1016 cm−3 eV−1. Experimental results are consistent with N(E) in the range 1016 cm−3 eV−1–2×1016 cm−3 eV−1. This is lower than the value derived from the transfer characteristic of the TFT (∼1017 cm−3 eV−1), which is evidence for an inhomogeneous distribution of deep gap states through the 0.5-μm film of α-Si:H.Keywords
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