

Rha, S.H., Jung, J.S., Jung, Y.S., Chung, Y.J., Kim, U.K., Hwang, E.S., Park, B.K., Park, T.J., Choi, J.H., Hwang, C.S.: Vertically integrated submicron amorphous In 2Ga 2ZnO 7 thin film transistor using a low temperature process. Liu, Y., Zhou, H., Cheng, R., Yu, W., Huang, Y., Daun, X.: Highly flexible electronics from scalable vertical thin film transistors. Uchida, Y., Nara, Y., Matsumura, M.: Proposed vertical-type amorphous-silicon field-effect transistors. The introduction of Si spacer steps and the IGZO channels prepared by conformal ALD could be presented as effective methodologies for implementing highly-functional nanoscale IGZO VTFTs. The fabricated VTFT also showed negligible variations in threshold voltage against the gate bias stresses of ± 1 MV/cm for 10 4 s. The device parameters of drain current on/off ratio, carrier mobility at linear region, and subthresholde swing for the IGZO VTFT with a channel length of 250 nm were obtained to be 6.9 × 10 7, 3.21 cm 2/Vs, and 460 mV/dec, respectively. The atomic layer deposition (ALD) was found to be one of the most important process parameters to obtain promising device operations of the fabricated IGZO VTFTs. The vertical sidewalls of the Si spacer were patterned via plasma etching technique using CF 4/O 2 gas mixtures with controlled process conditions. The Si spacer step was strategically introduced from the viewpoint of a new structural design to secure the surface quality of the back-channel region of the nanoscale IGZO VTFTs. Vertical channel thin film transistors (VTFTs) using silicon (Si) spacer steps and In–Ga–Zn–O (IGZO) active channels were demonstrated.
