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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2011
Single crystalline silicon thin films were formed on a transparent quartz substrate by zone melting recrystallization for the application of flat panel display. The recrystallized film shows a perfect (100) texture and the main defects are subgrainboundaries. High residual tensile stress, which can cause the film cracking, can be successfully eliminated by post-annealing. The nchannel thin film transistors fabricated on a recrystallized film showed excellent device characteristics: carrier mobility ˜ 420cm2/Vsec, subthreshold slope ˜ 100mV/dec and off-state leakage current < 0.2pA.