Room-Temperature Fabricated Thin-Film Transistors Based on Compounds with Lanthanum and Main Family Element Boron.
For the first time, compounds with lanthanum from the main family element Boron (LaBx) were investigated as an active layer for thin-film transistors (TFTs). Detailed studies showed that the room-temperature fabricated LaBx thin film was in the crystalline state with a relatively narrow optical band gap of 2.28 eV. The atom ration of La/B was related to the working pressure during the sputtering process and the atom ration of La/B increased with the increase of the working pressure, which will result in the freer electrons in the LaBx thin film. LaBx-TFT without any intentionally annealing steps exhibited a saturation mobility of 0.44 cm²·V−1·s−1, which is a subthreshold swing (SS) of 0.26 V/decade and a I/I ratio larger than 10⁴. The room-temperature process is attractive for its compatibility with almost all kinds of flexible substrates and the LaBx semiconductor may be a new choice for the channel materials in TFTs.
['Xiao|Peng|P|', 'Huang|Junhua|J|', 'Dong|Ting|T|', 'Xie|Jianing|J|', 'Yuan|Jian|J|', 'Luo|Dongxiang|D|', 'Liu|Baiquan|B|']
D001895:Boron D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray D004581:Electronics D007811:Lanthanum D056951:Photoelectron Spectroscopy D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet D013696:Temperature
LaBx flexible field effect low temperature thin film transistors