Effect of humidity and thermal curing of polymer gate dielectrics on the electrical hysteresis of SnO2 nanowire field effect transistors

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    Abstract

    Electrical properties of SnO2 nanowire (NW) field effect transistor (FET) with polyimide gate dielectrics, prepared by thermal curing of polyamic acid, were investigated. In particular, the effect of humidity and the thermal curing on the electrical hysteresis was systematically studied by taking Fourier-transform infrared spectra of polymer films. Slow polarization of hydroxyl groups/water molecules in the polymer film due to the insufficient curing and the absorbed water molecules under high humidity during the device fabrication was attributed to the hysteresis in the direction opposite to that observed in SnO2 NW FET with SiO2 gate dielectrics.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number102906
    JournalApplied Physics Letters
    Volume98
    Issue number10
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011 Mar 7

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    Funding Information:
    This work was supported by National Research Foundation grants funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea (Grant Nos. ROA-2007-0056879, ROA-2005-2002369, and ROA-2010-0010374).

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    • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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