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Leveraging Contact Effects for Field-Effect Transistor Technologies with Reduced Complexity and Superior Current Uniformity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2013

R. A. Sporea ,
S. Georgakopoulos ,
X. Xu ,
X. Guo ,
M. Shkunov ,
J. M. Shannon  and
S. R. P. Silva
R. A. Sporea
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K.
S. Georgakopoulos
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K.
X. Xu
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
X. Guo
Affiliation:
Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
M. Shkunov
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K.
J. M. Shannon
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K.
S. R. P. Silva
Affiliation:
Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K.
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Abstract

In order to achieve high performance, the design of devices for large-area electronics needs to be optimized despite material or fabrication shortcomings. In numerous emerging technologies thin-film transistor (TFT) performance is hindered by contact effects. Here, we show that contact effects can be used constructively to create devices with performance characteristics unachievable by conventional transistor designs. Source-gated transistors (SGTs) are not designed with increasing transistor speed, mobility or sub-threshold slope in mind, but rather with improving certain aspects critical for real-world large area electronics such as stability, uniformity, power efficiency and gain. SGTs can achieve considerably lower saturation voltage and power dissipation compared to conventional devices driven at the same current; higher output impedance for over two orders of magnitude higher intrinsic gain; improved bias stress stability in amorphous materials; higher resilience to processing variations; current virtually independent of source-drain gap, source-gate overlap and semiconductor thickness variations. Applications such as amplifiers and drivers for sensors and actuators, low cost large area analog or digital circuits could greatly benefit from incorporating the SGT architecture.

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semiconductingthin filmdevices
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1553: Symposium T – Electrical Contacts to Nanomaterials and Nanodevices , 2013 , mrss13-1553-t02-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2013 

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