Electrical and Structural Characterization of Ti Contacts to Si0.89 Ge0.11/Si(001) Epilayers

1995 ◽  
Vol 402 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Lyakas ◽  
M. Beregovsky ◽  
I. Moskowitz ◽  
M. Eizenberg

AbstractThe properties of thin (350 Å) Ti layers deposited on Si0.89Ge0.11 layers epitaxially grown on Si(001) were studied as a function of isochronal (30 min.) thermal treatments in the temperature range Ta=550–800°C. Both as-deposited and annealed at Ta up to 750°C Schottky diodes revealed near-ideal I–V and C–V characteristics with the same flat-band barrier height eV. The results indicate that at these Ta the Fermi level is pinned with respect to the conduction band.Annealing at 800°C resulted in an improvement of the Schottky diodes quality and a drop in and the series resistance Rs of the contacts. The values of the ideality factor n and ( measured were 1.03±0.02 and 0.56±0.007 eV, correspondingly. The electrical parameters of these metal/semiconductor contacts were correlated with the dynamics of interfacial reactions due to the applied heat-treatments.

2009 ◽  
Vol 609 ◽  
pp. 195-199
Author(s):  
A. Keffous ◽  
M. Kechouane ◽  
Tahar Kerdja ◽  
Y. Belkacem ◽  
K. Bourenane ◽  
...  

In this paper we present the study of a Schottky diode gas sensing by using porous SiC films with palladium as a catalytic metal. The Schottky diodes were used for the first time for hydrocarbon (C2H6) gas sensing. The properties of the porous SiC films formed by electrochemical method were investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The electrical measurements were made at room temperature (295 K) in different ambient. The effect of the porous surface structure was investigated by evaluating electrical parameters such as the ideality factor (n), barrier height (Bp) and series resistance (Rs). The porous layer significantly affects the electrical properties of the Schottky diodes. Analysis of current-voltage (I-V) characteristics showed that the forward current might be described by a classical thermal emission theory. The ideality factor determined by the I–V characteristics was found to be dependent on the SiC thickness. For a thinner SiC layer (0.16 µm), the electrical parameters n was found around 1.135, 0.7041 eV for a barrier height and 45  for a series resistance, but for a thicker one (1.6 µm) n, Bp and Rs were 1.368, 0.7756 eV and 130 , respectively. The low value of the series resistance obtained using Cheung’s method clearly indicated the high performance of the Schottky diode for thinner SiC layer. This effect showed the uniformity of the SiC layer. Finally, sensitivity around 66 % and selectivity of the sensors were reached by using the PSC layer at low voltages below 0.5 Volt.


2002 ◽  
Vol 09 (05n06) ◽  
pp. 1757-1760
Author(s):  
L. NAVARRETE ◽  
A. MARIÑO ◽  
H. SÁNCHEZ

Ultrathin films of (Bi–Pb)–Sr–Ca–Cu–O (2223) were produced by ex situ RF magnetron sputtering on MgO (100) substrates. Films with different thermal treatments and thickness varying between 30 nm and 300 nm were obtained and studied systematically. A structural characterization of these samples was carried out and correlated with their electrical properties and thickness.


Author(s):  
Sabuhi Ganiyev ◽  
M. Azim Khairi ◽  
D. Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Yusof Abdullah ◽  
N.F. Hasbullah

In this paper the effects of high energy (3.0 MeV) electrons irradiation over a dose ranges from 6 to 15 MGy at elevated temperatures 298 to 448 K on the current-voltage characteristics of 4H-SiC Schottky diodes were investigated. The experiment results show that after irradiation with 3.0 MeV forward bias current of the tested diodes decreased, while reverse bias current increased. The degradation of ideality factor, n, saturation current, Is, and barrier height, Phib, were not noticeable after the irradiation. However, the series resistance, Rs, has increased significantly with increasing radiation dose. In addition, temperature dependence current-voltage measurements, were conducted for temperature in the range of 298 to 448 K. The Schottky barrier height, saturation current, and series resistance, are found to be temperature dependent, while ideality factor remained constant. DOI: 10.21883/FTP.2017.12.45193.8646


2008 ◽  
Vol 600-603 ◽  
pp. 967-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsutaka Nakamura ◽  
Yoshikazu Hashino ◽  
Tomoaki Furusho ◽  
Hiroyuki Kinoshita ◽  
Hiromu Shiomi ◽  
...  

The effects of basal-plane defects on the performance of 4H-SiC Schottky diodes using a Ni electrode are demonstrated. Systematic characterization was performed using 4H-SiC epitaxial layers grown by sublimation epitaxy on substrates with various off-axis angles. As the off-axis angle increases, the ideality factor of the current-voltage characteristics increases, and the Schottky barrier height decreases, corresponding to an increase in the number of basal-plane defects. The reverse-bias current degrades for high off-axis samples. These results indicate that basal-plane defects degrade the device performance. Schottky diodes that possesses good characteristics were obtained for samples with low off-axis angles (2o- and 4o-off samples).


2013 ◽  
Vol 313-314 ◽  
pp. 270-274
Author(s):  
M. Faisal ◽  
M. Asghar ◽  
Khalid Mahmood ◽  
Magnus Willander ◽  
O. Nur ◽  
...  

Temperature dependent current-voltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurements were utilized to understand the transport mechanism of Pd Schottky diodes fabricated on Zn- and O-faces of ZnO. From I-V measurements, in accordance with the thermionic emission mechanism theory, it was found that the series resistance Rsand the ideality factor n were strongly temperature dependent that decreased with increasing temperature for both the faces (Zn and O-face) of ZnO revealing that the thermionic emission is not the dominant process. The barrier height øB(I-V)increased with increasing temperature for both faces. The measured values of ideality factor, barrier height and series resistance for Zn- and O-faces at room temperature were 4.4, 0.60 eV, 217 Ω and 2.8, 0.49 eV, 251 Ω respectively. The capacitance-voltage (C–V) measurements were used to determine the doping concentration Nd, the built-in-potential Vbi, and the barrier height øB(C-V). The doping concentration was found to be decreased with increasing depth. The barrier height øB(C-V)calculated for O-polar and Zn-polar faces decreases with increasing temperature. The values of barrier height øB(C-V)determined from C-V measurements were found higher than the values of barrier height øB(I-V). Keeping in view the calculated values of ideality factor, barrier height, and series resistance shows that O-polar face is qualitatively better than Zn-polar face.


2006 ◽  
Vol 517 ◽  
pp. 262-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.K. Tan ◽  
Azlan Abdul Aziz ◽  
Hassan Zainuriah ◽  
F.K. Yam ◽  
C.W. Lim ◽  
...  

The Current-Voltage-Temperature (I-V-T) characteristics of single layer deposition, consisting of Zr, Ti, or Cr/p-GaN Schottky diodes were determined in the temperature range 27- 100oC. Sputtering method was used for deposition of these metals on p-GaN. Analysis of the measured characteristics at room temperature allows the determination of the electrical parameters, the saturation current Io and the ideality factorη. The barrier heights and effective Richardson coefficients were determined through activation energy plot. It was found that pinning of Fermi level occurred for these metal contacts on p-GaN with the carrier concentration of 5.6x 1017 cm-3, where the Schottky barrier heights of Zr, Ti, or Cr/p-GaN are determined to be in the same range (~0.87eV).


2021 ◽  
Vol 1167 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Sudipta Sen ◽  
Nabin Baran Manik

Characterization of electrical parameters of Copper Phthalocyanine dye has been done in the present work. In the context of electrical parameters, the Schottky barrier and ideality factor of the organic device has been measured and the effects of fullerene nanoparticles on these parameters have been studied. Analysis of electrical parameters has been done by the current-voltage characteristics of the device. The influence of fullerene nanoparticles lessens the Schottky barrier to 0.71 eV from 0.75 eV. The current flow is assumed to be injection limited as the Schottky barrier is greater than 0.3 eV - 0.4 eV. The Schottky barrier is also estimated by the Norde method. Norde's method shows lessening of barrier height from 0.70 eV to 0.65 eV under the influence of fullerene nanoparticles. The measured ideality factor value reduces from 3.787 to 1.495 in presence of fullerene nanoparticles. The charge injection mechanism at metal-organic contact gets influenced by the interfacial Schottky barrier height. Decrease in both Schottky barrier and ideality factor attribute to the increase in charge flow and it allows a reduction in the device’s transition voltage from 2.5 V to 1.0 V.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 428-437
Author(s):  
M. Azim Khairi ◽  
Rosminazuin Ab. Rahim ◽  
Norazlina Saidin ◽  
Yusof Abdullah ◽  
Nurul Fadzlin Hasbullah

This paper investigates on the reaction of 10 and 15MGy, 3MeV electron irradiation upon off-the-shelves (commercial) Silicon Carbide Schottky diodes from Infineon Technologies (model: IDH08SG60C) and STMicroelectronics (model: STPSC806). Such irradiation reduces the forward-bias current. The reduction is mainly due to the significant increase of the series resistance (i.e. Infineon: 1.45Ω at before irradiation → 121×103 Ω at 15MGy); STMicroelectronics: 1.44Ω at before irradiation → 2.1×109 Ω at 15MGy). This increase in series resistance gives 4.6 and 8.2 orders of magnitude reduction for the forward-bias current density of Infineon and STMicroelectronics respectively. It is also observed that the ideality factor and the saturation current of the diodes increases with increasing dose (i.e. ideality factor- Infineon: 1.01 at before irradiation → 1.05 at 15MGy; STMicroelectronics: 1.02 at before irradiation → 1.3 at 15MGy | saturation current- Infineon: 1.6×10-17A at before irradiation → 2.5×10-17A at 15MGy; STMicroelectronics: 2.4×10-15A at before irradiation → 8×10-15A at 15MGy). Reverse-bias leakage current density in model by Infineon increases by one order of magnitude after 15MGy irradiation, however, in model by STMicroelectronics decreases by one order of magnitude. Overall, for these particular samples studied, Infineon devices have shown to be better in quality and more radiation resistance toward electron irradiation in forward-bias operation while STMicroelectronics exhibit better characteristics in reverse-bias operation.


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