Junmi Lee;Heonbang Lee;Myeonggi Jeong;Jinbaek Bae;Chanju Park;Keunwoo Kim;Jin Jang
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Abstract
We report the effect of the ball drop on coplanar oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) on polyimide (PI) substrate. The ball drop tests were carried out on the TFTs without and with an organic passivation layer (OPL) as a function of drop number. The oxide TFTs without an OPL show electrical degradation by ball drop impact. However, the performance of the TFTs with an OPL changes a little even after 10 times of ball drops on top. It is also found that the splitting of the active layer is more robust under the ball drop test. The performance degradation is mainly due to the O vacancy increase in the channel and the crack formation on the TFTs after the ball drop. It is concluded that splitting the active layer of the coplanar TFT with OPL on top TFT shows no change in electrical performance after many times of ball drops.
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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors. Tutorial and review papers on these subjects are also published and occasional special issues appear to present a collection of papers which treat particular areas in more depth and breadth.