High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistors Based on Single-Crystalline ZnO Channels
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 44 (9L), L1193
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.44.l1193
Abstract
We have fabricated field-effect transistors with single-crystalline ZnO channels consisting of high-quality epitaxial films grown on lattice-matched (0001) ScAlMgO4substrates by laser molecular-beam epitaxy. Amorphous alumina gate insulators are deposited on the top of the ZnO films using either RF magnetron sputtering or electron-beam evaporation. The field-effect mobility (µFE) of the device prepared by the latter method is as high as 40 cm2·V-1·s-1, one order of magnitude higher than those typically observed for polycrystalline channel devices. However, hysteresis appears in transfer characteristics. This unfavorable effect is found to be eliminated by the thermal annealing of the entire devices in air. The much larger hysteresis and lower µFEare observed for the device with sputtered gate insulators. This is presumably due to dense surface states created by ion or electron bombardment during the sputtering.Keywords
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