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Grain Boundary Location-Controlled Polt-Si Films for Tft Devices Obtained Via Novel Excimer Laser Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

H. J. Kim  and
James S. Im
H. J. Kim
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Mining Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
James S. Im
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, and Mining Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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Abstract

Based on a previously acquired physical understanding of the excimer-laser-induced crystallization process, we have developed a new crystallization technique that produces controlled microstructures and possesses a wide processing window. A patterned oxide capping layer was used as an antireflective coating to induce complete melting of an Si film under an SiO2 pattern, and partial melting of the Si film in the areas not under the capping layer—allowing controlled super lateral growth to proceed from the incompletely melted portion of the film to the completely melted portion. For the simple stripes used in this investigation, when the width of the completely molten region is less than a critical distance (above which nucleation of solids occurs in the middle of the completely melted regions), the resulting microstructure has large and elongated grains with one precisely located grain boundary running parallel to the stripe In the middle of the oxide capped region.

Arrangement of TFT devices on the resulting Grain boundary Location-Controlled (GLC) Si films with one (or zero) grain boundaries located perpendicular to the flow of electrons within the active channel portion of the TFT devices is illustrated. Such devices are expected to possess performance and uniformity characteristics that are superior to currently available poly-Si TFT devices.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 358: Symposium F – Microcrystalline and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors , 1994 , 903
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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