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We systematically investigated the temperature behaviors of the electrical conductivity and Hall coefficient of two series of amorphous indium gallium zinc oxides (a-IGZO) films prepared by rf sputtering method. The two series of films are…
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Amorphous oxide semiconductors are receiving significant attention due to their relevance for large area electronics. Their disordered microscopic structure causes the formation of band tails in the density of states (DOS) that strongly…
Under varying growth and device processing conditions, ultrabroadband photoconduction (UBPC) reveals strongly evolving trends in the defect density of states (DoS) for amorphous oxide semiconductor thin-film transistors (TFTs). Spanning the…
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