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US 11,677,031 · App. 16/529,833 · Granted Jun 13, 2023

Oxide semiconductor thin-film and thin-film transistor consisted thereof

Inventors: Miao Xu (Guangzhou, CN); Hua Xu (Guangzhou, CN); Weijing Wu (Guangzhou, CN); Weifeng Chen (Guangzhou, CN); Lei Wang (Guangzhou, CN); Junbiao Peng (Guangzhou, CN)
Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
H01L29/78693H01L21/02266H01L21/02581H01L21/30604
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Patent No.
US 11,677,031
App. No.
16/529,833
Granted
Jun 13, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application discloses an oxide semiconductor thin-film and a thin-film transistor consisted thereof. The oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated by doping a certain amount of rare-earth oxide (RO) as light stabilizer to metal oxide (MO) semiconductor. The thin-film transistor comprising a gate electrode, a channel layer consisted by the oxide semiconductor thin-film, a source and drain electrode; the thin-film transistor employing etch-stop structure, a back-channel etch structure or a top-gate self-alignment structure.

Claims (24)

1. An oxide semiconductor thin-film, wherein, the oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated from a (MO) x (RO) y semiconductor material by doping an amount of rare-earth oxide (RO) as a light stabilizer to a metal oxide (MO) semiconductor, wherein, 0.8≤x<1, 0.012≤y≤0.2, x+y=1;

the M in the metal oxide semiconductor consists of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of In, Zn, Ga, Sn, and combinations thereof;

the R in the rare-earth oxide is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Pr, Tb, Dy, and Yb.

2. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , wherein, the M in the metal oxide semiconductor is a combination of Zn with one or two elements selected from Sn, In and Ga.

3. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 2 , wherein, the metal oxide semiconductor is one selected from the group consisting of indium-zinc-oxide, indium-gallium-zinc-oxide, indium-tin-zinc-oxide and tin-zinc-oxide.

4. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 3 , wherein, ingredient mole ratio of In 2 O 3 :ZnO is 2:1 in the indium-zinc-oxide.

5. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 3 , wherein, ingredient mole ratio of In 2 O 3 :Ga 2 O 3 :ZnO is 2:1:2 in the indium-gallium-zinc-oxide.

6. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 3 , wherein, ingredient mole ratio of In 2 O 3 :SnO 2 :ZnO is 1:1:1 in the indium-tin-zinc-oxide.

7. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 3 , wherein, ingredient mole ratio of ZnO:SnO 2 is 2:1 in the tin-zinc-oxide.

8. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , wherein, the (MO) x (RO) y semiconductor material is one selected from the group consisting of praseodymium-doped indium-zinc-oxide, terbium-doped indium-gallium-zinc-oxide, dysprosium-doped indium-tin-zinc-oxide, and ytterbium-doped tin-zinc-oxide.

9. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , wherein, the oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated by sputtering in Ar and O 2 mixture gas with an oxygen volume ratio at 0.1 to 0.6.

10. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , wherein, the oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated by sputtering in Ar and O 2 mixture gas with an oxygen volume ratio at 0.2 to 0.3.

11. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , wherein, the oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated by a solution process.

12. A thin-film transistor, comprising a channel layer consisted by an oxide semiconductor thin-film, wherein,

the oxide semiconductor thin-film is fabricated from a (MO) x (RO) y semiconductor material by doping an amount of rare-earth oxide (RO) as a light stabilizer to a metal oxide (MO) semiconductor, wherein, 0.8≤x<1, 0.012≤y≤0.2, x+y=1;

the M in the metal oxide semiconductor consists of one or more elements selected from In, Zn, Ga, Sn, and combinations thereof;

the R in the rare-earth oxide is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Pr, Tb, Dy, and Yb.

13. The thin-film transistor of claim 12 , further comprising: a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulator layer, an etch-stop layer, a source and drain electrode; wherein, the thin-film transistor employs an etch-stop structure.

14. The thin-film transistor of claim 12 , further comprising: a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulator layer, a source and drain electrode; wherein, the thin-film transistor employs a back-channel etch structure.

15. The thin-film transistor of claim 14 , wherein, the source and drain electrode is patterned under etchant of hydrogen peroxide based etching solution or aluminic based etching solution.

16. The thin-film transistor of claim 12 , further comprising: a substrate, a buffer layer, a gate insulator layer, a gate electrode, an interval layer, a source and drain electrode; wherein, the thin-film transistor employs a top-gate self-alignment structure.

17. The thin-film transistor of claim 16 , wherein, the substrate is a flexible substrate made from polyimide, polyethylene naphthalate, polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, or polyethersulfone.

18. The oxide semiconductor thin-film of claim 1 , having an indirect band-gap.

19. The thin-film transistor of claim 12 , wherein the oxide semiconductor thin-film has an indirect band-gap.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 2, 2019
From: XU, MIAO; XU, HUA; WU, WEIJING; CHEN, WEIFENG; WANG, LEI; PENG, JUNBIAO
To: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 201710229199.9 · Apr 10, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2017111109 · Nov 15, 2017
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