Summary of the invention
In view of above content, be necessary to provide a kind of thin-film transistor that can prevent that grid layer is oxidized.
A kind of manufacture method of thin-film transistor further, is provided.
Again, provide a kind of liquid crystal panel that comprises aforementioned thin-film transistor.
A kind of thin-film transistor, comprising:
The grid of at least one metal material; And
One gate insulator, cover this grid, this gate insulator is for including silica, and the two mixture one of at least wherein of the chemical substance of the chemical substance of the bond that contains nitrogen and silicon and the bond that contains nitrogen and oxygen and silicon, and in this gate insulator, the concentration ratio of the concentration of oxygen atom and nitrogen-atoms is less than 3, wherein, the concentration of described oxygen atom refers to the quantity of oxygen atom in unit volume, and the concentration of nitrogen-atoms refers to the quantity of nitrogen-atoms in unit volume.
A manufacture method for thin-film transistor, comprising:
Form the grid of at least one metal material;
In reaction chamber, being filled with silicomethane, nitrogen dioxide gas and nitrogen adopts the method formation gate insulator of chemical vapour deposition (CVD) on this grid, this gate insulator is for including silica, and the two mixture one of at least wherein of the chemical substance of the chemical substance of the bond that contains nitrogen and silicon and the bond that contains nitrogen and oxygen and silicon, and in this gate insulator, the concentration of oxygen atom and the concentration ratio of nitrogen-atoms are less than 3.
A kind of display panels, comprise multiple as the scan line of the thin-film transistor of claim 1 to 5 any one, the setting of multirow parallel interval, the setting of multiple row parallel interval and with the vertically insulated data wire intersecting of this fine scanning line, the multiple pixel electrode of this fine scanning line and this multi-column data line institute delimited area, public electrode that relative this pixel electrode arranges of being arranged on, this thin-film transistor is arranged on this multiple row scan line and this multirow data wire intersection region.
Compared to prior art, in the forming process due to this gate insulator, adopt nitrogen to dilute, thus, in formation gate insulator process, can not make the grid that contains metal material be oxidized, and then ensure the resistivity that grid is lower, prevent the delay of signal transmission time.
Embodiment
Referring to Fig. 1, is the structural representation of display panels one dot structure of the present invention.This display panels 100 comprise that scan line 101, multiple row that multirow is parallel to each other are parallel to each other and respectively with this scan line 101 insulate thin-film transistor 10 (thin film transistor, TFT) that crossing data wire 102, this scan line 101 of multiple vicinity and this data wire 102 infalls arrange, multiple pixel electrode 104 and one and the public electrode 105 that is oppositely arranged of the plurality of pixel electrode 104.These pixel electrode 104 matrixes are arranged in the region that data wire 102 that scan line 101 that this multirow is parallel to each other and multiple row be parallel to each other defines.The grid correspondence of this thin-film transistor 10 is connected to one scan line 101, and its source electrode correspondence is connected to a data wire 102, and its drain electrode correspondence is connected to a pixel electrode 104.
In the time that the extraneous scanning voltage providing is provided this fine scanning line 101, the extraneous data voltage providing is provided this multi-column data line 102, and is loaded on the source electrode of corresponding thin-film transistor 10.If now this thin-film transistor 10 is in open mode, this data voltage is sent to the drain electrode of this thin-film transistor 10 and is loaded in this pixel electrode 104.The extraneous common electric voltage providing is provided this public electrode 105 simultaneously, can produce thus an electric field to control the rotation of liquid crystal molecule between this pixel electrode 104 and this public electrode 105, shows thereby realize image.
As shown in Figure 2, be the cross-sectional view of thin-film transistor 10 shown in Fig. 1 along IV-IV line, thin-film transistor 10 comprises substrate 11, grid 12, gate insulator 13, semiconductor layer 14, source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16.Wherein, grid 12 is formed on substrate 11 using copper as electrode material.The main component of gate insulator 13 is silica (SiOn, n is natural number), also comprise in addition the chemical substance of the bond SiClx (Si-N) that contains nitrogen and silicon and/or contain nitrogen and the chemical substance of the bond of oxygen and silicon (Si-N-O), wherein the concentration of oxygen atom and nitrogen atom concentration ratio are less than 3.This atomic concentration can be by secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS, secondary ion mass spectroscopy) instrument test acquisition, the concentration of this nitrogen-atoms and oxygen atom refers to respectively the quantity of interior this nitrogen-atoms of unit volume (1 cubic centimetre, 1cm3) and oxygen atom.
In this gate insulator 13, to be less than 3 thickness be 7.5% to 12.5% of gate insulator 13 integral thickness for adjacent gate 12 and corresponding concentration of oxygen atoms and nitrogen atom concentration ratio.
This gate insulator 13 is covered on this grid 12 and substrate 11.Semiconductor layer 14 is formed on this gate insulator 13, and source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16 two ends that are formed at respectively on this semiconductor layer 14 that grid 12 is corresponding wherein, are provided with a passage (not indicating) between source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16.Can understand, present embodiment is to describe with bottom-gate structure.
See also Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, wherein, Fig. 3 is the method flow diagram of making this thin-film transistor in an embodiment of the present invention, and this manufacture method comprises the steps:
Step S201, provides substrate 11, and the material of this substrate can be glass.
Step S202, the grid 12 of formation using metal material as electrode material is on substrate 11, and this grid 12 can be in a reaction chamber, to adopt physical vapor method on substrate 11, to deposit certain thickness metal copper layer, then via forming after patterning.In the present embodiment, this metal material is preferably the copper that resistivity is lower (Cu).
Step S203, adopt the method for chemical vapour deposition (CVD) to form gate insulator on this grid 12, wherein, in the process of chemical vapour deposition (CVD), in airtight reaction chamber, be filled with the mixture of silicomethane (SiH4), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas and nitrogen (N2) as the required reacting gas of chemical vapour deposition (CVD).Particularly, in reaction chamber, pass into SiH4, in NO2 and the N2 reaction temperature more than 370 degrees Celsius, make those gases carry out chemical reaction, thereby deposition formation main component is silica (SiOx) on grid 12 and substrate 11, also comprise in addition the chemical substance of the bond SiClx (Si-N) that contains nitrogen and silicon and/or contain nitrogen and the chemical substance of the bond of oxygen and silicon (Si-N-O), owing to passing into silicomethane (SiH4) in the process that forms gate insulator 13, when nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas, also pass into that nitrogen (N2) dilutes aforementioned two kinds of gases and as reacting gas, make the copper in grid 12 be difficult for oxidized.
Preferably, at the initial stage that passes into previous reaction gas formation gate insulator 13, as: in the overall sedimentation time of gate insulator 13 5% to 10% time period before, the amount of being filled with of nitrogen is greater than 1.5 with the volume ratio of nitrogen in the unit interval and nitrogen dioxide and is advisable, so that this nitrogen dioxide gas is diluted, accordingly, at this moment, in section, the thickness that the concentration of oxygen atoms that adjacent gate 12 forms and nitrogen atom concentration ratio are less than 3 gate insulator 13 is 7.5% to 12.5% of gate insulator 13 integral thickness.And forming can being filled with in right amount nitrogen or stopping being filled with nitrogen in section At All Other Times of gate insulator 13, and in the gate insulator 13 of correspondence, the concentration ratio of nitrogen-atoms and oxygen atom is not subject to the restriction of above ratio.
Step S204, forms semiconductor layer 14 on this gate insulator 13, and this semiconductor layer 14 can be indium oxide gallium zinc (IGZO) film.
Step S205, formation source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16 lay respectively at the two ends of this semiconductor layer 14, wherein, between source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16, are provided with a passage.
Compared to prior art, because gate insulator 13 forms under nitrogen environment, thus, in formation gate insulator 13 processes, can not make the grid 12 that contains copper product be oxidized, and then ensured the lower resistivity of grid 12, and prevent the time delay of signal, improve the resolution of display panels.
Variable ground, this thin-film transistor 10 can also be top grid structure, and correspondingly, the material of gate insulator that covers this grid in this top grid thin-film transistor is identical with the material of aforementioned gate insulator 13, and manufacturing method thereof is also similar, is not repeated at this.In addition, though this thin-film transistor 10 only comprises a grid in the present embodiment, so in other embodiment of the present invention, also can be bigrid (dual-gate TFT) structure or the multiple-grid utmost point (multi-gate TFT) structure.
Certainly, the present invention is not limited to above-mentioned disclosed embodiment, and the present invention carries out various changes to above-described embodiment.The art personnel are appreciated that as long as within connotation scope of the present invention, within the appropriate change that above embodiment is done and variation all drop on the scope of protection of present invention.