Secondary light is scribed the method for thin-film transistor fully
Technical field
The present invention relates to the manufacture method that a kind of secondary photoetching realizes thin-film transistor structure, belong to semiconductor technology flat panel display field.
Background technology
Along with the develop rapidly of semiconductor technology, the integrated level of semiconductor device is increasingly high, and the characteristic size of device is more and more littler, and preparation technology also becomes increasingly complex.In recent years, the thin-film transistor technologies that is applicable to the flat panel display industry is also in fast development.Thin-film transistor is one of kind of field-effect transistor, and main production method is the various film of deposition on substrate, like the metal or the compound electrode layer of semiconductor channel layer, gate insulation dielectric layer and conduction.Thin-film transistor is that deposition layer of semiconductor film is regarded conductivity channel layer on substrate.The thin-film transistor major part of using at present is amorphous silicon hydride (a-Si:H) thin-film transistor, and the polycrystalline SiTFT technology is also among constantly improving.The performance of amorphous silicon film transistor is more stable, but mobility is low.The mobility of polycrystalline SiTFT improves a lot, but the preparation temperature of polycrystalline SiTFT is high, the lack of homogeneity of large-area preparation.In addition; Amorphous silicon film transistor and polycrystalline SiTFT are all to photaesthesia, and great changes will take place for device performance under the illumination condition, therefore; In flat panel display, need to introduce black matrix, this complexity that has also increased preparation technology has reduced the aperture opening ratio of display device simultaneously.In order further to improve the performance of thin-film transistor, solve problems such as black matrix, aperture opening ratio, brightness, the international semiconductor technical field has started the research boom of transparent electronics in recent years.Transparent electronics is exactly to utilize transparent electronic material to make a kind of semiconductor technology of electronic device and interlock circuit thereof.A collection of researchers such as the John Wager of Oregon State University have also carried out deep research to transparent electronics, and have obtained some progress.At present to the transparent semiconductor investigation of materials more be zinc oxide material.Zinc oxide material has lot of advantages: be easy to preparation, utilize methods such as magnetron sputtering method, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) method, sol-gel (Sol-Gel) method, MOCVD method can prepare well behaved zinc oxide material; Preparation temperature is low, and the temperature of general preparation can be controlled at 500
oIn the C, on glass substrate; Transparency is high, and zinc oxide is wide-band gap material, and energy gap is about 3.37eV, is transparent in visible-range therefore; Electric property is good, and the electric property of zinc oxide material is good, and carrier mobility is far above amorphous silicon; Nontoxic, environment-friendly materials, zinc oxide material are a kind of nontoxic environment-friendly materials; Material price is low, and Zinc material is aboundresources on earth, and is cheap, can reduce the manufacturing cost of product effectively.Scientists is thought; Transparent electronics will develop into an emerging electron trade that efficient is higher, price is more cheap; Its range of application is quite extensive, comprises from the flat-panel monitor to the solar cell, many-sided field such as mobile phone, flexible electronic paper, organic light emitting display.
The current thin film transistor technology mainly adopts photoetching process five times, and photoetching process is also arranged four times.Photoetching process is the key technology in the thin-film transistor technology, is one of difficult point in the whole preparation process, and the photoetching process complexity is directly connected to the manufacturing cost of thin-film transistor.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of preparation method of new thin-film transistor.Utilize the secondary photoetching to realize thin-film transistor structure.The gate insulation dielectric layer of the first lithographic definition thin-film transistor, photoetching for the second time defines grid, source end and drain terminal electrode simultaneously.This method will reduce the complexity of prepared greatly, improve make efficiency effectively, thereby reduce the manufacturing cost of thin-film transistor.
Technical scheme of the present invention is following:
The structure of the thin-film transistor of the present invention's preparation is as shown in Figure 1, comprises substrate, gate insulation dielectric layer, gate electrode and source-drain electrode, is formed on the substrate, and substrate is glass or plastics; Said semiconductor channel layer is positioned on the glass substrate, and said gate insulation dielectric layer is positioned on the semiconductor channel layer, and said gate electrode is positioned on the gate medium.Said source-drain electrode is positioned on the semiconductor channel layer.
The technical process that the present invention prepares thin-film transistor only adopts Twi-lithography, specifically may further comprise the steps:
(1) growth layer of semiconductor channel layer on glass or plastic at first, semiconductor channel layer is formed by amorphous silicon, polysilicon or compound semiconductor materials;
(2) growth one deck gate insulation dielectric layer, the gate insulation dielectric layer is formed by silicon dioxide, silicon nitride or high-K gate dielectric insulating material;
(3) carry out the photoetching first time and etching definition gate insulation dielectric layer figure then;
(4) growth layer of conductive film material is formed by metal A l, Cu, Mo, Ti or transparent compound conductive film material, and photoetching and etching form gate electrode, source termination electrode and drain terminal electrode then.
The present invention adopts the secondary photoetching to form the technology of thin-film transistor, has reduced the photoetching number of times, has simplified processing step, thereby has improved operating efficiency, has reduced manufacturing cost.For industries such as liquid crystal display provide simple and feasible film crystal tube preparation method.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is the cross-sectional view that the described secondary photoetching of the specific embodiment of the invention forms thin-film transistor;
Fig. 2 is the plan structure sketch map that the described secondary photoetching of the specific embodiment of the invention forms thin-film transistor;
Fig. 3 is the main technique step of a manufacture method of thin-film transistor of the present invention, wherein:
Fig. 3 (a) has illustrated the sectional view of substrate;
Fig. 3 (b) has illustrated the processing step that the semiconductor conductivity channel layer forms;
Fig. 3 (c) has illustrated the processing step of gate insulation dielectric layer growth;
Fig. 3 (d) has illustrated grid, source, drain electrode layer deposit and patterned processing step.
Embodiment
Through instance the present invention is further specified below.It should be noted that the purpose of publicizing and implementing example is to help further to understand the present invention, but it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that: in spirit that does not break away from the present invention and accompanying claims and scope, various replacements and modification all are possible.Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to the disclosed content of embodiment, and the scope that the present invention requires to protect is as the criterion with the scope that claims define.
Thin-film transistor of the present invention is formed on the substrate 1, and is as depicted in figs. 1 and 2.This thin-film transistor comprises semiconductor conductivity channel layer 2, one gate insulation dielectric layers, 3, one gate electrodes (G) 4, a source termination electrode (S) 4 and a drain terminal electrode (D) 4.Said semiconductor conductivity channel layer 2 is positioned on the glass substrate 1; Said gate insulation dielectric layer 3 is positioned on the semiconductor conductivity channel layer 2; Said gate electrode (G) 4 is positioned on the gate insulation dielectric layer 3, and said source termination electrode (S) 4 is positioned on the semiconductor conductivity channel layer 2 with drain terminal electrode (D) 5.
One instantiation of the manufacture method of said thin-film transistor, may further comprise the steps to shown in Fig. 3 (d) by Fig. 3 (a):
Shown in Fig. 3 (a), substrate is selected transparent glass substrate or plastics 1 for use.
Shown in Fig. 3 (b), with the layers of semiconductor thin-film materials 2 of rf magnetron sputtering deposit one deck 50~500 nanometer thickness, semiconductor channel layer is formed by amorphous silicon, polysilicon or compound semiconductor materials.
Shown in Fig. 3 (c), utilize PECVD on semiconductor channel layer, grow layer of silicon dioxide or insulating silicon nitride material, the gate insulation dielectric layer 3 of formation, photoetching and etching form gate insulation medium figure then.
Shown in Fig. 3 (d), the metal film of magnetron sputtering growth one deck 100~200 nanometer thickness or transparent compound conductive layer be photoetching and etching formation gate electrode (G) 4, source termination electrode (S) 5 and drain terminal electrode D (5) then.
Though the present invention discloses as above with preferred embodiment, yet be not in order to limit the present invention.Any those of ordinary skill in the art; Do not breaking away under the technical scheme scope situation of the present invention; All the method for above-mentioned announcement capable of using and technology contents are made many possible changes and modification to technical scheme of the present invention, or are revised as the equivalent embodiment of equivalent variations.Therefore, every content that does not break away from technical scheme of the present invention, all still belongs in the scope of technical scheme protection of the present invention any simple modification, equivalent variations and modification that above embodiment did according to technical spirit of the present invention.