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Abstract
A thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate on which an insulating film is deposited and a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating film, wherein at least one doped region is formed and a connection region connecting the doped regions is formed. The doped region is doped with an N-type or P-type, and the connection region is intrinsic.
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1A and 1B are plan views of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to the prior art.
2A and 2B are plan views of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display having a short circuit according to the prior art.
3A and 3B are plan views of a thin film transistor and a doping mask for a flat panel display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a plan view of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a thin film transistor, and in the case of forming a doped region, a space between the doped regions is narrowed so that some doped regions can be connected. Even when such a connection occurs, normal on / off switching A thin film transistor for a flat panel display capable of switching and a method of manufacturing the same.
Thin film transistors are turned on and off in flat panel displays such as Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes (AMOLEDs) or Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (AMLCDs). It is widely used as a switching device. As the material of the thin film transistor, polycrystalline silicon thin film and amorphous silicon thin film are mainly used. Recently, the crystallization method using laser is widely used, and the current driving ability is excellent and fast. There is a growing interest in polycrystalline silicon thin films having operating speeds.
The polycrystalline silicon thin film has a high mobility compared to amorphous silicon, and can be formed by integrating a driving circuit on a substrate, and high resolution can be realized compared to a flat panel display using amorphous silicon. It is being used for high quality flat panel displays such as AMOLED and AMLCD.
1A and 1B are plan views of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to the prior art.
Referring to FIG. 1A, a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to the related art includes a
Amorphous silicon or polycrystalline silicon is used for the
A contact hole is formed in each distal end of the U-shaped doped
Referring to FIG. 1B, a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to the related art includes a
As described above, amorphous semiconductor or polycrystalline silicon is used for the
2A and 2B are plan views of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display having a short circuit according to the prior art.
In a general semiconductor process, a series of processes for transferring a pattern designed on a mask onto a substrate on which a thin film to be processed is formed is called photolithography. The photolithography process is a process of applying photoresist (PR) to the substrate surface with a uniform thickness, a process of aligning and exposing the mask and the substrate on which the pattern is formed, and developing the photoresist. To form a PR pattern. PR reacts with light. In contrast to positive PR that dissolves upon receiving light, there is a negative PR that hardens upon receiving light. Hereinafter, the PR will be described based on positive PR.
In the photolithography process, PR is first applied to the substrate surface with a uniform thickness. Subsequently, when the mask is aligned on the substrate and UV rays are emitted, light cannot pass through the portion where the mask is chromium, and light passes through the part where the mask is not. PR sting light is dissolved, and PR not stinging remains hard and remains on the wafer. Then, a pattern designed on the mask is realized on the substrate by selectively removing the PR of the exposed and unexposed regions that reacted with ultraviolet rays using a developer.
Currently, display products have been advanced in order to provide high resolution images, and thus it is very difficult to ensure good PR pattern uniformity after development.
Therefore, after development, the
In such a short circuit, the current always flows without passing through the thin film transistor so that the thin film transistor cannot perform the on / off switching function, or the capacitor cannot charge the charge. As a result, lighting failures such as bright spots, dark spots, and clustering defects occur in the short-circuited region, and thus, pixels of the flat panel display do not operate properly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and when a short circuit occurs in the doped region, the doping mask is used to cover all regions except the doped region requiring doping. The purpose of the present invention is to prevent the lighting failure of the display by maintaining the functions of the thin film transistor and the capacitor normally.
The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.
A thin film transistor for a flat panel display for achieving the above object includes a substrate on which an insulating film is deposited and a semiconductor layer disposed on the insulating film, wherein a doped region is formed and a connection region connecting the doped regions is formed. The doped region is doped with an N-type or P-type, and the connecting region is intrinsic.
In addition, a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor for a flat panel display includes depositing an insulating film on a substrate, forming a semiconductor layer having at least one doped region, and using a doping mask to cover all regions except the doped region. Doping an N-type or P-type impurity into the.
Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
3A and 3B are plan views of a thin film transistor and a doping mask for a flat panel display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
The thin film transistor for flat panel display according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a
The
Amorphous silicon or polycrystalline polysilicon is used for the
Due to such an orderless structure of amorphous silicon, numerous defect states are formed in the amorphous silicon in the forbidden gap of the energy band gap, which cannot exist in crystalline silicon. The electro-optical properties of amorphous silicon are sensitively dependent on the energy distribution of the defect state in the forbidden region, and by controlling the density of defects, the semiconductor characteristics can be used as a switch element.
Since amorphous silicon is easy to fabricate a device and has low device characteristics but uniform properties, the
Compared to amorphous silicon, polycrystalline silicon has high mobility and device characteristics that amorphous silicon cannot have, and thus, there is an advantage in that a driving circuit can be embedded and a high resolution image can be provided.
In order to form the
The doped region is usually formed by doping impurities into the
When the
A contact hole is formed at each distal end of the U-shaped
In addition, the L-shaped
The doped region is formed by doping impurities on the pattern formed on the substrate after the aforementioned development process is completed.
In general, in doping a doping region, doping is performed using a PR that is not yet dissolved on the pattern as a mask, a doping using a gate electrode as a mask, or a separate doping mask. .
However, the pattern forming operation in the photolithography process may not always be performed perfectly, so that the pattern may be formed in the portion where the pattern should not be formed. After the doping process is performed, the dopant is doped to such a pattern, and the doping is performed not only to the originally intended doping region but also to a connection region connecting the doping regions not originally intended for doping. As the doping is performed to the connection region, current flows in the thin film transistor so that the on / off switching function cannot be performed, and current flows in the capacitor.
In order to solve this problem, the following doping masks have been devised.
The doping mask according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention covers all of the regions except the doping region requiring doping with the doping mask. When the doping process is performed using such a doping mask, even when a pattern is formed incorrectly, doping is not performed in the connection region, and the connection region is maintained in an intrinsic state, and thus no carrier exists. There is little current flow in the region. Therefore, it is not expressed as a defect.
FIG. 3A illustrates a case in which a U-shaped
In this case, when the doping is performed as in the related art, the doping is performed to the
However, when the doping is performed using the
FIG. 3B illustrates a case in which the L-shaped
At this time, if doping is performed as in the related art, doping is performed to the
However, when the doping is performed using the
4 is a plan view of a thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
A thin film transistor for a flat panel display according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a
Since the
Unlike the U-shaped
In this way, even when the pattern is not normally formed in the photolithography step, the gap between the both ends is wide, thereby preventing short circuit.
Hereinafter, a method of manufacturing a thin film transistor according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3A, 3B, and 4.
First, an insulating film is deposited on a substrate. Thereafter, amorphous silicon is deposited on the substrate on which the insulating film is deposited by plasma chemical vapor deposition or low temperature chemical vapor deposition to pattern the
When the
Thereafter, a gate insulating layer is deposited on the
As the gate insulating layer, a material such as SiN x or SiO 2 is usually used as a layer for insulating the gate electrode from the
Next, impurities are doped into the doped region of the
When the doping region is doped with impurities, all the regions except the doping region requiring doping are covered with the doping mask using a doping mask according to an embodiment of the present invention. Such a doping mask is as described above.
Thereafter, an interlayer insulating layer is deposited on the entire region of the thin film transistor intermediate structure, contact holes are formed to expose one section of the source and drain regions, and metal and wires are deposited to form source and drain electrodes to complete the thin film transistor. do.
As described above, according to the present invention, when a short circuit occurs in the doped region, the doping mask is used to cover all of the regions except for the doped region requiring doping. The function of the capacitor can be maintained normally to prevent the display from failing.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention should not be limited to the contents described in the detailed description of the specification but should be defined by the claims.
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