Abstract

Abstract We investigated the chemical bonds in nitrogen-doped amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO:N) thin films with an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS). The doped nitrogen atoms preferentially combined with Ga cations and formed stable Ga N bonds for low nitrogen-doping (N-doping), but additionally formed less stable In N and Zn N bonds for high N-doping. The stable Ga N bonds and few defects made the variation in oxygen vacancy (VO) more difficult and hence achieved better stability of thin film transistors (TFTs) with low doped a-IGZO:N channel layers. Contrarily, the less stable In N and Zn N bonds as well as excess defects led to an easier change in VO and thus more unstable a-IGZO:N TFTs for high N-doping.

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