KR20110127091A - Low-temperature polysilicon thin film and method of manufacturing the same, transistor and display apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
The present invention relates to a low temperature polysilicon thin film, a method of manufacturing the same, a transistor, and a display device.
With the development of flat panel display technology, the Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (hereinafter abbreviated as AMOLED) has advantages in lightness, thickness, self-luminous and high response speed. Has become a development trend of liquid crystal display devices.
The AMOLED includes an active switch, an insulating layer, a transparent layer, a light emitting layer, and a metal which are sequentially formed on a bottom layer of a substrate. Among them, the active switch is transparently connected through the contact hole in order to control the writing of the image data. In response to the recent increase in AMOLED size, an active switch usually adopts a low temperature poly-silicon TFT (hereinafter abbreviated as LTPS-TFT) as a pixel switch control element. The quality of the low temperature polysilicon thin film used to fabricate the LTPS-TFT is directly related to the representation of the electrical properties of the LTPS-TFT. Therefore, the manufacturing technology of low temperature polysilicon thin film is getting more and more attention.
In addition, a low-temperature polysilicon thin film can be manufactured by employing a non-laser metal induced crystallization method (hereinafter referred to as MIC). The process of this MIC method is shown in FIGS.
1 is a schematic diagram (1) of a cross section of a manufacturing process according to an embodiment of a conventional method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram (2) of a cross section, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram (3) of a cross section of a manufacturing process according to an embodiment of a conventional method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film.
First,
The distribution of the threshold voltage Vth of the transistor produced from the low temperature polysilicon thin film obtained by the MIC method is relatively stable. However, the following drawbacks exist. That is, in the crystallization process, nickel silicide is formed on the
A method for manufacturing a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: preparing a substrate; forming a buffer layer on the substrate; forming a first amorphous silicon thin film on the buffer layer; Forming a particle of a catalyst in an amorphous silicon thin film, forming a second amorphous silicon thin film so as to cover the particles of the first amorphous silicon thin film and the catalyst, and using the particles of the catalyst, the first amorphous silicon And forming a low temperature polysilicon thin film by crystallizing the thin film and the second amorphous silicon thin film.
The low temperature polysilicon thin film according to another embodiment of the present invention is obtained by the method for producing the low temperature polysilicon thin film.
A low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor according to another embodiment of the present invention, comprising a substrate, the low temperature polysilicon thin film, and formed on the substrate and between the source region, the drain region, and the source region and the drain region. A semiconductor layer including a channel region positioned in the first region; a gate insulating layer sequentially formed on the semiconductor region; a gate corresponding to a position of the channel region; and a first layer formed on the gate and the gate insulating layer And a dielectric layer having a via hole and a second via hole, a source electrode connected to the source region via the first via hole, and a drain electrode connected to the drain region via the second via hole.
A display device according to still another embodiment of the present invention includes an array substrate, and the low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor is formed on the array substrate.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention or in the prior art more clearly, the drawings required for describing the embodiments or the prior art will be introduced. In addition, the following drawings are of course only examples of one embodiment of the present invention. Of course, those skilled in the art can obtain other drawings by the drawings even without creative labor.
1 to 3 are schematic views of a cross section of a manufacturing process according to an embodiment of the method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film,
4-8 is a schematic diagram of the cross section of the manufacturing process by the Example which concerns on the manufacturing method of the low temperature polysilicon thin film of this invention.
9 is a schematic diagram of a low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the technical solutions related to the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings in order to clarify the objects, technical solutions, and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention. In addition, the described embodiment is only a part of the embodiment related to the present invention, but not all of the embodiments. In addition, all other embodiments that can be obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention in the absence of creative labor are included in the present invention.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a process for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film using Interlayer Grain Growth Silicon (hereinafter, referred to as IGS) as an important technology. By placing a catalyst layer such as nickel at an intermediate position of the amorphous silicon layer so as to be positioned at an intermediate portion of the polysilicon layer in which later-growing metal silicon oxide, for example Ni silicide, is formed, It is prevented from being formed at the gate oxide interface. This effectively suppresses the off-state current of the transistor to prevent leakage.
Hereinafter, a description will be given in more detail with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments of the present invention.
<First Embodiment>
4 is a cross-sectional schematic diagram (1) of a manufacturing process of an embodiment of a method for manufacturing a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a cross section of a manufacturing process of an embodiment of a manufacturing method of a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to the present invention. 6 is a schematic diagram (2), and FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view (3) of the manufacturing process of an embodiment of the method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to the present invention, and FIG. 7 is a method for manufacturing a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to the present invention. 8 is a cross-sectional schematic view 4 of the manufacturing process of the embodiment, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional schematic view 5 of the manufacturing process of the embodiment of the method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to the present invention. According to each of the above drawings, the method of this embodiment includes the following steps. In other words,
Step 101: A buffer layer is formed on the substrate.
Referring to FIG. 4, a
Step 102: Deposit a first amorphous silicon layer on the buffer layer.
Referring to FIG. 5, a first amorphous silicon
Step 103: The catalyst particles are applied to the first amorphous silicon thin film layer.
Subsequently,
Step 104: Deposit a second amorphous silicon thin film layer.
Referring to FIG. 7, a second amorphous silicon
Step 105: The amorphous silicon thin film layer is crystallized to form a low temperature polysilicon thin film with respect to the amorphous silicon thin film layer.
Rapid thermal annealing (hereinafter abbreviated as RTA), or heat treatment in a polysilicon smelter and then crystallize. Referring to FIG. 8, after the crystallization process, the amorphous silicon thin film forms a polysilicon thin film. The polysilicon thin film includes a first polysilicon thin film layer 21 'and a second polysilicon thin film layer 23', all of which include
In this process, since the
According to the method for producing a low-temperature polysilicon thin film of this embodiment, by placing a catalyst layer such as nickel at an intermediate position of an amorphous silicon layer, a metal silicon oxide (for example, Ni silicide), which is formed later, is formed on an intermediate portion of the polysilicon layer. Position it. As a result, the transistor fabricated using the low temperature polysilicon thin film formed by the method has a good distribution characteristic of Vth and at the same time effectively suppresses the off-state current.
Second Embodiment
This embodiment provides a low temperature polysilicon thin film. The low temperature polysilicon thin film is obtained by the method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film described in the first embodiment.
Third Embodiment
This embodiment provides a low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor. The transistor is obtained from the low temperature polysilicon thin film described in the second embodiment.
Specifically, as shown in FIG. 9, the low-temperature polysilicon thin film transistor of the present embodiment includes a
The low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor is used as a switching element of a pixel of a TFT-LCD. As shown in FIG. 9, a
Since the low-temperature polysilicon thin film transistor of this embodiment places Ni silicide in the low-temperature polysilicon thin film employed in its fabrication at an intermediate position of the polysilicon layer, the channel region of the transistor has a good threshold voltage distribution and an off state. The current can be suppressed effectively.
<Fourth Embodiment>
Embodiments of the present invention also provide a display device. The display device includes an array substrate and a low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor formed on the array substrate. The device employs the low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor described in the third embodiment to form a switching element.
The display device of the present embodiment may be an OLED which is an organic light emitting diode, or a liquid crystal display (hereinafter, abbreviated as LCD). Since the electrical characteristics of the low-temperature polysilicon thin film transistors employed in the display device are stable, generation of off-state current can be effectively prevented, thereby improving display quality of the display device.
Finally, the above-described embodiments have been described only with reference to the technical solutions of the present invention, but are not limited thereto. Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can modify or change the technical solutions described in each of the above embodiments, and the partial technical features thereof can be interchanged equally. It is to be understood that the substance of the corresponding technical proposals does not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of each embodiment of the present invention.
11-substrate, 12-buffer layer, 13-nickel, 14-amorphous layer, 15-polysilicon crystal grain, 16-contact surface, 21-first amorphous silicon thin film layer, 22-catalyst particle, 23-second amorphous silicon thin film layer, 24 -Polysilicon crystal particles.
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Preparing a substrate;
Forming a buffer layer on the substrate;
Forming a first amorphous silicon thin film on the buffer layer;
Forming particles of a catalyst on the first amorphous silicon thin film;
Forming a second amorphous silicon thin film to cover the first amorphous silicon thin film and the particles of the catalyst; And
Forming a low temperature polysilicon thin film by performing crystallization on the first amorphous silicon thin film and the second amorphous silicon thin film using the particles of the catalyst;
Method for producing a low temperature polysilicon thin film comprising a.
Board;
A semiconductor layer comprising a low temperature polysilicon thin film according to claim 6 and formed on the substrate and including a source region, a drain region, and a channel region located between the source region and the drain region;
A gate corresponding to a position of the gate insulating layer and the channel region, which are sequentially formed on the semiconductor region;
A dielectric layer formed on the gate and the gate insulating layer and having a first via hole and a second via hole formed therein;
A source electrode connected to the source region via the first via hole; And
A drain electrode connected to the drain region via the second via hole;
Low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor comprising a.
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