Abstract

Aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) films were fabricated on SiOC/p-Si wafer and SiOC film was prepared on a p-type Si substrate with the SiC target at oxygen ambient with the gas flow rate of 5-30 sccm by a RF magnetron sputter. C-V curve of SiOC/Si wafer was measured to observe the relationship between the polarity of SiOC dielectrics and the change of capacitance depending on oxygen gas flow rate. The SiOC film could be controlled to be polar or nonpolar, and their surface energy was changed depending on the polarity. Smooth surface is essential to improve the TFT performance. AZO-TFTs used smooth SiOC film with low polarity as a gate insulator was observed to show low leakage current (IL) and low subthreshold voltage swing. It is proposed that SiOC film with high degree amorphous structure as a gate insulator between AZO and Si wafer could solve problems of the mismatched interfaces, which was originated from the electron scattering due to the grain boundary.

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