Extraction of source resistance in thin film transistors using a single gated-probe outside the channel
- 3 April 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 53 (35), 355104
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab8670
Abstract
Extraction of source resistance in top contact thin film transistors is described using a gated three probe device structure. The three probes include source terminal, drain terminal and an electrode deposited outside the channel and kept open-circuited leading to unperturbed transistor operation. A measurement of floating potential of this probe together with a family of universal curves is presented which allows estimation of source resistance from dc measurements in linear mode of operation on a single device. Simulation and experimental results obtained for organic thin film transistors with Pentacene semiconductor demonstrate that the method gives estimates that are close to the values obtained from the relatively more complex transfer length measurement (TLM) technique. It is also shown that unlike the TLM method, the outside gated probe (OGP) technique is much less sensitive to errors in device parameters and variations in device dimensions such as the channel length.Keywords
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