Fluorine and oxygen plasma influence on nanoparticle formation and aggregation in metal oxide thin film transistors

Mateusz Mądzik; Elangovan Elamurugu; Jaime Viegas

doi:10.1117/12.2253667

29 March 2017 Fluorine and oxygen plasma influence on nanoparticle formation and aggregation in metal oxide thin film transistors

Mateusz Mądzik, Elangovan Elamurugu, Jaime Viegas

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Proceedings Volume 10105, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VIII; 1010513 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253667
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Despite recent advances in metal oxide thin-film transistor technology, there are no foundry processes available yet for large-scale deployment of metal oxide electronics and photonics, in a similar way as found for silicon based electronics and photonics. One of the biggest challenges of the metal oxide platform is the stability of the fabricated devices. Also, there is wide dispersion on the measured specifications of fabricated TFT, from lot-to-lot and from different research groups. This can be partially explained by the importance of the deposition method and its parameters, which determine thin film microstructure and thus its electrical properties. Furthermore, substrate pretreatment is an important factor, as it may act as a template for material growth. Not so often mentioned, plasma processes can also affect the morphology of deposited films on further deposition steps, such as inducing nanoparticle formation, which strongly impact the conduction mechanism in the channel layer of the TFT. In this study, molybdenum doped indium oxide is sputtered onto ALD deposited HfO₂ with or without pattering, and etched by RIE chlorine based processing. Nanoparticle formation is observed when photoresist is removed by oxygen plasma ashing. HfO₂ etching in CF₄/Ar plasma prior to resist stripping in oxygen plasma promotes the aggregation of nanoparticles into nanosized branched structures. Such nanostructuring is absent when oxygen plasma steps are replaced by chemical wet processing with acetone. Finally, in order to understand the electronic transport effect of the nanoparticles on metal oxide thin film transistors, TFT have been fabricated and electrically characterized.

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Mateusz Mądzik, Elangovan Elamurugu, and Jaime Viegas "Fluorine and oxygen plasma influence on nanoparticle formation and aggregation in metal oxide thin film transistors", Proc. SPIE 10105, Oxide-based Materials and Devices VIII, 1010513 (29 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253667

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