High mobility transparent thin-film transistors with amorphous zinc tin oxide channel layer

Transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs) with an amorphous zinc tin oxide channel layer formed via rf magnetron sputter deposition are demonstrated. Field-effect mobilities of 5–15 and 20–50cm2V−1s−1 are obtained for devices post-deposition annealed at 300 and 600°C, respectively. TTFTs processed at 300 and 600°C yield devices with turn-on voltage of 0–15 and −5–5V, respectively. Under both processing conditions, a drain current on-to-off ratio greater than 107 is obtained. Zinc tin oxide is one example of a new class of high performance TTFT channel materials involving amorphous oxides composed of heavy-metal cations with (n−1)d10ns0 (n⩾4) electronic configurations.

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