Fabrication of Sub-50nm ZnO thin-film transistors with film profile engineering and laminated hardmask structure

We proposed a modified film profile engineering (FPE) process with laminated hardmask (HM) structure to fabricate ZnO thin-film transistors (TFTs) with channel length (L) down to 10 nm. The fabricated ultra-short devices demonstrate uniform and excellent performance. 38 nm ZnO TFTs with discrete TiN gates were also fabricated for suppressing the off-state leakage current.