A p-type polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor (TFT) was fabricated using the metal-induced lateral crystallization (MILC) technique at 550 degrees C. To reduce the leakage current in the MILC TFT, electrical stress (ES), newly developed in this work, was applied prior to the I(D)-V(G) measurements. It was found that ES is effective only when the TFT is under off-state. The stress gate voltage is related to the leakage current at high gate voltages and the electric field between the source and the drain to the leakage current at low gate voltages. The leakage current of the MILC TFT could be lowered to 10(-11) A for width/length ratios of 1/2 measured at the drain voltage of 3 V. A new plausible model has been suggested to explain the ES effect on the leakage current behavior in low-temperature polycrystalline silicon TFTs.

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