Abstract
A high-performance polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin-film transistor (TFT) with Schottky-barrier (SB) source/drain (S/D) junctions is proposed. A p-channel operation on the intrinsic nickel (Ni) silicided S/D was successfully realized with the aid of a thin active layer, despite the fact that the Ni silicided material shows a high SB height (SBH) for holes. Furthermore, for n-channel operation, the dopant-segregation technique implemented on the intrinsic Ni silicide was utilized to reduce the effective SBH for electrons. The results show a higher on-current due to the lower parasitic resistance as well as superior immunity against short-channel effects, compared to the conventional poly-Si TFT composed of p-n S/D junctions.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 5398906 |
| Pages (from-to) | 228-230 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Electron Device Letters |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2010 |
Keywords
- Dopant segregation (DS)
- Dopant-segregated Schottky barrier (DSSB)
- High performance
- MOSFET
- Ni silicide
- Schottky barrier (SB)
- Thin body
- Thin-film transistors (TFTs)