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Dopant selection for control of charge carrier density and mobility in amorphous indium oxide thin-film transistors: Comparison between Si- and W-dopants

  • Nobuhiko Mitoma*
  • , Shinya Aikawa
  • , Wei Ou-Yang
  • , Xu Gao
  • , Takio Kizu
  • , Meng Fang Lin
  • , Akihiko Fujiwara
  • , Toshihide Nabatame
  • , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • National Institute for Materials Science Tsukuba
  • Kogakuin University
  • Soochow University
  • Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute

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Abstract

The dependence of oxygen vacancy suppression on dopant species in amorphous indium oxide (a-InOx) thin film transistors (TFTs) is reported. In a-InOx TFTs incorporating equivalent atom densities of Si- and W-dopants, absorption of oxygen in the host a-InOx matrix was found to depend on difference of Gibbs free energy of the dopants for oxidation. For fully oxidized films, the extracted channel conductivity was higher in the a-InOx TFTs containing dopants of small ionic radius. This can be explained by a reduction in the ionic scattering cross sectional area caused by charge screening effects.

Original languageEnglish
Article number042106
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume106
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Jan 2015

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