Fabrication of thin film transistors by chemical mechanical polished polycrystalline silicon films

Abstract

A top-gate p-channel polycrystalline thin film transistor (TFT) has been fabricated using the polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) film as-deposited by ultrahigh vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHV/CVD) and polished by chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), In this process, long-term recrystallization in channel films is not needed. A maximum field effect mobility of 58 cm(2)/V-s, ON/OFF current ratio of 1.110(7), and threshold voltage of -0.54 V were obtained. The characteristics are not poor. In this work, therefore, we have demonstrated a new method to fabricate poly-Si TFT's.