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Fully current-based sub-bandgap optoelectronic differential ideality factor technique and extraction of subgap DOS in amorphous semiconductor TFTs

  • Hagyoul Bae*
  • , Hyojoon Seo
  • , Sungwoo Jun
  • , Hyunjun Choi
  • , Jaeyeop Ahn
  • , Junseok Hwang
  • , Jungmin Lee
  • , Saeroonter Oh
  • , Jong Uk Bae
  • , Sung Jin Choi
  • , Dae Hwan Kim
  • , Dong Myong Kim
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Kookmin University
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • LG Corporation

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Abstract

A sub-bandgap optoelectronic differential ideality factor technique is proposed for extraction of the intrinsic density-of-states (DOS) over the bandgap in amorphous semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs). In the proposed technique, the gate bias-dependent differential change in the difference of ideality factors ((d Δ η (VGS)/dVGS) between dark and sub-bandgap photonic excitation condition is employed. With the sub-bandgap photons (hν < Eg), the photonic excitation of electrons is confined only from the localized DOS over the bandgap. We applied the proposed technique to a-InGaZnO TFTs with W/L = 50/25 μm/μm and extracted the energy distribution of the intrinsic DOS for the localized states over the bandgap.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6891249
Pages (from-to)3566-3569
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Volume61
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014.10.1

Keywords

  • Amorphous oxide semiconductor
  • density-of-states (DOS)
  • differential ideality factor
  • InGaZnO (IGZO)
  • optoelectronic
  • subgap thin-film transistor (TFT)
  • subthreshold
  • TFT

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