High temperature-induced abnormal suppression of sub-threshold swing and on-current degradations under hot-carrier stress in a-InGaZnO thin film transistors

This letter investigates the effect of temperature on hot-carrier stress-induced degradation behavior in InGaZnO thin film transistors. After hot-carrier stress at 25 degrees C, serious on-current and subthreshold swing degradations are observed due to trap state generation near the drain side. For identical stress performed at elevated temperatures, current degradation in the I-V transfer curve under reverse mode is gradually suppressed and the anomalous hump in the gate-to-drain capacitance-voltage curve becomes more severe. These suppressed degradations and the more severe hump can be both attributed to hole-trapping near the drain side due to high drain bias at high temperature. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.