A new technique has been proposed to define and control the grain boundaries and domains of low temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) films. It can be realized by combination of the solution process and the provision of nucleation sites (NS) and supplemental sites (SS). As a result
the crystallized poly-Si film has a much lower nickel concentration as compared to traditional metal induced lateral crystallization (MILC) poly-Si. High perfor-mance TFTs are obtained regardless of the position of the grain boundaries. Different shapes of domains can be obtained corresponding to different distributions of the NS and SS. Among the optimal designs
a honeycomb-like structure and a unidirectional structure are the most typical and practical. With the repeatedly regular distribution of the NS and the SS
domains of the same shape and size can be achieved. This process is precisely controllable and the crystallization time can be reduced to about 2 h at the annealing temperature of 590 ℃. The fabricated P-channel defined-grain (DG) poly-Si TFTs exhibited a maximum field effect mobility (
μ
FE
) of ~55 cm
2
/V·s
a subthreshold swing (
S
) of ~0.6 V/dec and a threshold voltage (
V
th
) of -3 V. The ratio of on-state to off-state drain currents is ~1×10
7
.
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