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Proximity Recovery Layers to Speed up the Recovery of Stressed Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

M. Hack
Affiliation:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
W. B. Jackson
Affiliation:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
R. Lujan
Affiliation:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Abstract

We have developed a means to speed up the recovery of both the threshold voltage shift of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) transistors and the Vx shift of high voltage a-Si devices. This is accomplished by placing a lightly doped compensated layer adjacent to the active layer in these transistors. This proximity recovery layer does not alter the initial characteristics of a-Si:H transistors and is completely process compatible with standard fabrication procedures.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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