Flat Panel Imagers Based on Excimer Laser Annealed, poly-Si Thin Film Transistor Technology

2001 ◽  
Vol 685 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Lu ◽  
K. Van Schuylenbergh ◽  
R. T. Fulks ◽  
J. Ho ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractPulsed Excimer-Laser Annealing (ELA) has become an important technology to produce high performance, poly-Si Thin Film Transistors (TFTs) for large area electronics. The much-improved performance of these poly-Si TFTs over the conventional hydrogenated amorphous Si TFTs enables the possibility of building next generation flat panel imagers with higher-level integration and better noise performance. Both the on-glass integration of peripheral driver electronics to reduce the cost of interconnection and the integration of a pixel level amplifier to improve the noise performance of large area imagers have been demonstrated and are discussed in this paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Lu ◽  
K. Van Schuylenbergh ◽  
J. Ho ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
J. B. Boyce ◽  
...  

AbstractThe technology of large area electronics has made significant progress in recent years because of the fast maturing excimer laser annealing process. The new thin film transistors based on laser processed poly silicon provide unprecedented performance over the traditional thin film transistors using amorphous silicon. They open up the possibility of building flat panel displays and imagers with higher integration and performance. In this paper, we will review the progress of poly-Si thin film transistor technology with emphasis on imager applications. We also discuss the challenges of future improvement of flat panel imagers based on this technology.


1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (Part 1, No. 12B) ◽  
pp. 3700-3703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Kuriyama ◽  
Seiichi Kiyama ◽  
Shigeru Noguchi ◽  
Takashi Kuwahara ◽  
Satoshi Ishida ◽  
...  

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (Part 2, No. 12) ◽  
pp. L2370-L2372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genshiro Kawachi ◽  
Takashi Aoyama ◽  
Takaya Suzuki ◽  
Akio Mimura ◽  
Yasunori Ohno ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (Part 1, No. 4A) ◽  
pp. 2092-2099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genshiro Kawachi ◽  
Takashi Aoyama ◽  
Akio Mimura ◽  
Nobutake Konishi

1999 ◽  
Vol 557 ◽  
Author(s):  
C-M Park ◽  
M-C Lee ◽  
J-H Jeon ◽  
M-K Han

AbstractExcimer laser annealing technique is proposed to increase the grain size and controlling the microstructure of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin film. Our method is based on the lateral grain growth during laser annealing. Our specific grid ion beam irradiation method was designed to maximize the lateral growth effect and arrange the location of grain boundaries. We observed well-arranged poly-Si grains up to micrometer order by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).


2013 ◽  
Vol 811 ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Jyh Liang Wang ◽  
Chun Chien Tsai ◽  
Chuan Chou Hwang ◽  
Tsang Yen Hsieh

High performance and device uniformity n-channel low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) bottom-gate (BG) thin film transistors (TFTs) with artificially-controlled lateral grain growth have been performed by excimer laser crystallization (ELC). The BG TFTs (W/L = 1.5 μm/1.5 μm) demonstrate field-effect-mobility of 323 cm2/Vs and high Ion/Ioff of 9.5 × 108. The proposed BG TFTs reveal the superior electrical characteristics, device uniformity, and reliability than conventional top-gate ones.


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