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US 9,825,180 · App. 15/248,567 · Granted Nov 21, 2017

Thin-film transistor and method for manufacturing same

Inventors: Toshihide Nabatame (Tsukuba, JP); Kazuhito Tsukagoshi (Tsukuba, JP); Shinya Aikawa (Tsukuba, JP); Toyohiro Chikyo (Tsukuba, JP)
Assignee: National Institute for Materials Science
H01L29/7869H01L21/02554H01L21/02565H01L21/02631H01L21/40H01L29/42356H01L29/4908H01L29/513H01L29/517H01L29/66969H01L29/78609H01L29/78693
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Patent No.
US 9,825,180
App. No.
15/248,567
Granted
Nov 21, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides a thin-film transistor in which transistor characteristics such as drain current and threshold voltage are improved, and a method of manufacturing the same. The present invention provides a thin-film transistor provided with a source electrode ( 108 ), a drain electrode ( 109 ), a semiconductor layer ( 105 ), a gate electrode ( 103 ), and an insulating layer ( 104 ); wherein the semiconductor layer ( 105 ) contains a composite metal oxide obtained by adding to a first metal oxide an oxide having an oxygen dissociation energy that is at least 200 kJ/mol greater than the oxygen dissociation energy of the first metal oxide, whereby the amount of oxygen vacancy is controlled; and the insulating layer ( 104 ) is provided with an SiO 2 layer, a high-permittivity first layer, and a high-permittivity second layer, whereby the dipoles generated at the boundary between the SiO 2 layer and the high-permittivity layers are used to control the threshold voltage.

Claims (9)

1. A thin-film transistor comprising:

a source electrode and a drain electrode;

a semiconductor layer provided in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode;

a gate electrode provided corresponding to a channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode; and

an insulating layer provided between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer,

wherein the insulating layer has a layer stack arranged in an order of, from the gate electrode side or the semiconductor layer side, a silicon oxide layer, a high-permittivity first layer provided in contact with the silicon oxide layer and having a permittivity higher than that of the silicon oxide layer, and a high-permittivity second layer having a permittivity higher than that of the high-permittivity first layer.

2. The thin-film transistor according to claim 1 , wherein the high-permittivity first layer is formed of at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, zirconium oxide, titanium oxide, tantalum oxide, niobium oxide, rare-earth oxide, magnesium oxide and strontium oxide, silicate oxide or silicon oxynitride.

3. The thin-film transistor according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the high-permittivity first layer is 0.6 nm or more.

4. The thin-film transistor according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the silicon oxide film is 0.6 nm or more.

Priority Claims (3)
JP 2013-099284 · May 9, 2013 · national
JP 2013-139425 · Jul 3, 2013 · national
JP 2014-016266 · Jan 31, 2014 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14889919
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