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Letter

Suppression of Current Hysteresis in Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors

Kazuhito Tsukagoshi^1,2, Masahiro Sekiguchi^1,3, Yoshinobu Aoyagi^1,2,3, Takayoshi Kanbara^1,4, Taishi Takenobu^2,4, and Yoshihiro Iwasa^2,4

¹RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
²CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama 333-0012, Japan
³Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 336-8502, Japan
⁴Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan

(Received April 12, 2007; accepted April 29, 2007; published online June 8, 2007)

Source–drain current hysteresis in carbon nanotube film transistors is effectively suppressed by a combination of ultraviolet/ozone treatment and the thermal evaporation of a protective pentacene film. Thin-film channel transistors fabricated from single-walled carbon nanotubes contain amorphous carbon particles and molecules adsorbed from the atmosphere as charge-trapping sites. Ultraviolet irradiation under exposure to ozone is shown to be effective for eliminating amorphous carbon, and the evaporation of a pentacene layer prevents adsorption from the atmosphere. The combination of these treatments reduces hysteresis in carbon nanotube film transistors.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/46/L571/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.46.L571

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