Abstract
Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistors (TFTs) with a periodic lateral silicon grain structure have been demonstrated to exhibit high-performance electrical characteristics via the amorphous silicon spacers above the amorphous silicon film crystallized with excimer laser. Amorphous silicon spacers allowed the bottom of the under-layered amorphous silicon film to serve as seed crystals. The periodic grain structure could be artificially controlled via the super lateral growth phenomenon during excimer laser irradiation. Consequently, such periodically large and lateral grains in the TFTs would achieve high field-effect-mobility of , as compared with the conventional ones of . In addition, the uniformity of device-to-device could be improved due to this location-manipulated lateral silicon grains.
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