Defect Analysis of Barrier Height Inhomogeneity in Titanium 4H-SiC Schottky Barrier Diodes

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 574-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Bolen ◽  
M. A. Capano
2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (14) ◽  
pp. 2309-2319 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. ERTURK ◽  
M. C. HACIISMAILOGLU ◽  
Y. BEKTORE ◽  
M. AHMETOGLU

The electrical characteristics of Cr / p – Si (100) Schottky barrier diodes have been measured in the temperature range of 100–300 K. The I-V analysis based on thermionic emission (TE) theory has revealed an abnormal decrease of apparent barrier height and increase of ideality factor at low temperature. The conventional Richardson plot exhibits non-linearity below 200 K with the linear portion corresponding to activation energy 0.304 eV and Richardson constant (A*) value of 5.41×10-3 Acm-2 K -2 is determined from the intercept at the ordinate of this experimental plot, which is much lower than the known value of 32 Acm-2 K -2 for p-type Si . It is demonstrated that these anomalies result due to the barrier height inhomogeneities prevailing at the metal-semiconductor interface. Hence, it has been concluded that the temperature dependence of the I-V characteristics of the Cr/p – Si Schottky barrier diode can be successfully explained on the basis of TE mechanism with a Gaussian distribution of the barrier heights. Furthermore, the value of the Richardson constant found is much closer than that obtained without considering the inhomogeneous barrier heights.


2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 371-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Chawanda ◽  
K.T. Roro ◽  
F.D. Auret ◽  
W. Mtangi ◽  
C. Nyamhere ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 253 (18) ◽  
pp. 7467-7470 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Doğan ◽  
H. Korkut ◽  
N. Yıldırım ◽  
A. Turut

2006 ◽  
Vol 252 (22) ◽  
pp. 7749-7754 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlbilge Dökme ◽  
Şemsettin Altindal ◽  
M. Mahir Bülbül

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Faruk Ozdemir ◽  
Adnan Calik ◽  
Guven Cankaya ◽  
Osman Sahin ◽  
Nazim Ucar

Au/n-GaAs Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) have been fabricated. The effect of indentation on Schottky diode parameters such as Schottky barrier height (φb) and ideality factor (n) was studied by current-voltage (I-V) measurements. The method used for indentation was the Vickers microhardness test at room temperature. The experimental results showed that the I-V characteristics move to lower currents due to an increase of φb with increasing indentation weight, while contacts showed a nonideal diode behaviour.


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