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Improving Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering Effect and Hot Carrier Reliability With Terminal via Structure on Half-Corbino Organic Thin-Film Transistors
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 43(4):569-572 Apr, 2022
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Organic thin film transistors
Standards
Electric fields
Degradation
Electrodes
Substrates
Integrated circuit reliability
Terminal structure
organic thin-film transistors
half-Corbino
hot carrier effect
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
This study proposes a terminal via structure for half-Corbino organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) to improve drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL) effect and reliability. A sub-channel conduction and DIBL phenomenon due to high drain voltages are observed on the $\text{I}_{{\text {D}}} - \text{V}_{{\text {G}}}$ curves of traditional half-Corbino OTFTs. The device breaks down at a drain voltage of −40 V. This is attributed to the strong electric field between the source/drain corner edge, which is verified by a COMSOL electric field simulation. The degradation behavior is inhibited through the terminal via structure. In addition, the terminal via structure reduces the on-current degradation by dispersing heat near the corner edge after the hot carrier effect.