Plasma ion implantation hydrogenation of poly-Si CMOS thin-film transistors at low energy and high dose rate using an inductively-coupled plasma source

Defect passivation in polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) CMOS thin-film transistors (TFT's) has been performed by plasma ion implantation (PII) hydrogenation process. Implantation at low energy (2 keV) and high dose rate(/spl sim/10/sup 16//cm/sup 2/ S) was achieved by an inductively-coupled plasma source. The device parameter improvements are saturated in 3-4 min, which is much shorter than other hydrogenation methods reported in the literature. The stress measurements indicate that the devices hydrogenated by this new technique have much better long-term reliability than that hydrogenated by other techniques.