This work aims to provide knowledge on electrical properties of thin-film transistors(TFTs) based on polymorphous silicon (pm-Si: H), and on polymorphous material structure.We also focused on a new method of crystallization of amorphous silicon layer by laserinterferometry, which has great potential for the development of active matrix flat paneldisplays based on polysilicon.We first identified a lower OFF current in TFTs based on pm-Si: H than inmicrocrystalline silicon (μc-Si: H) TFTs. Our studies have also shown that pm-Si: H TFTs donot present oxygen contamination during the fabrication process, which is a problemencountered in the fabrication of μc-Si:H TFTs. We then studied the threshold voltage shift ofpm-Si:H TFTs under electrical stress. We have found results similar to those observed inamorphous silicon TFTs (a-Si:H), namely, defects creation in the active layer which isresponsible for the threshold voltage shift (ΔVT) for low gate voltage and short times stress,and charge trapping in the gate silicon nitride is responsible for ΔVT for high gate voltage andlong time stress. We also shown that pm-Si:H TFTs are more stable under electrical stressthan a-Si:H TFT.In a second step, the structural analysis of thin films of pm-Si: H revealed the presence ofcrystallites about few nanometers in the polymorphous layer. Similarly, we isolated the X-raydiffraction signal of polymorphous layer and revealed a structural organization at larger rangethan in amorphous silicon layer, which is consistent with the results of electrical stress.Finally, we studied a method of crystallization of a-Si by 4-beams laser interferences. Weobserved a periodic structure of the layer in a face-centered cubic system. TEM observationsshowed that the layer was well crystallized. SEM observations after revelation of grainboundaries showed what appears to be a network of μc-Si seed with a pitch of 652 nm and thepresence of a continued layer of grains and grain boundaries between these seeds.
