Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Microcrystalline silicon films were deposited by diluted-hydrogen method andhydrogen-atom-treatment method at 250°C in a plasma enhanced chemical vapordeposition system and they were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance,Raman spectroscopy, and optical bandgap Measurements. One-Mask a-Si:H thinfilm transistors (TFT's) were fabricated with those microcrystallinematerials as the channel layer. The highest electron mobilities of the TFT'sfabricated by diluted-hydrogen method and hydrogen-atom-treatment methodwere 1.23 and 1.04 cm2/V•s, respectively without any thermaltreatment steps.