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Degradation and Self-recovery of Polycrystalline Silicon TFT CMOS Inverters Under NBTI Stress

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Degradation and self-recovery of poly-crystalline Silicon (poly-Si) Thin film transistor (TFT) by using complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) inverter were investigated. Under DC stress, degradation mechanisms were clarified by comparing the Voltage transfer characteristics (VTC) of fresh and stressed inverters. It is determined that Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) of p-TFT dominates the degradation of the inverter under zero bias DC stress. After removing the stress, the VTC continues to be degraded, because the interface trap-states and the grain boundary trap-states increase due to hydrogen species diffusion. It is found out that the VTC is shifted to its right side severely with negative bias stress of VIN. The NBTI of p-TFT is enhanced and the NBTI of n-TFT also plays a role on the degradation. When removing the negative bias stress, the self-recovery of NBTI of n-TFT and the continuing degradation of NBTI of p-TFT become competing mechanisms, together controlling the VTC after-stress behavior. Consequently, the continuing degradation of NBTI of p-TFT is restrained by self-recovery of NBTI of n-TFT.

Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI)Self-recoveryInverterPolycrystalline siliconVoltage transfer characteristics (VTC)

GUO Jian、YU Zhinong、YAN Wei、SHI Dawei、XUE Jianshe、XUE Wei

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School of Optics and Photonics, and Beijing Engineering Research Center of Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

Erdos BOE Display Technology Company Limited, Inner Mongolia 017000, China

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

61675024

2019

中国电子杂志(英文版)

中国电子杂志(英文版)

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ISSN:1022-4653
年,卷(期):2019.28(4)
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