Amorphous-silicon distributed-threshold voltage transistors with self-aligned poly-silicon sources and drains

A microstructure has been introduced into the channel of amorphous-silicon thin-film transistors with poly-silicon sources and drains. A slant-photolithography method was introduced for fabricating this device without additional photomasks. The off-characteristics have been improved without sacrificing originally good on-characteristics. Temperature dependence is also discussed for the transistor characteristics. >