Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
56 (1990), S. 1919-1921
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
A photoelectrochemical anodization technique has been used to fabricate n-Si/insulator/metal (MIS) diodes with improved electrical properties. MIS structures fabricated with Au have provided the first experimental observation of a solid-state n-Si surface barrier device whose open circuit voltage Voc is controlled by minority-carrier bulk diffusion/recombination processes. For these diodes, variation of the minority-carrier diffusion length and majority-carrier dopant density produced changes in Voc that were in accord with bulk diffusion/recombination theory. Additionally, the variation in Voc in response to changes in the work function of the metal overlayer indicated that these MIS devices were not subject to the Fermi level pinning restrictions observed for n-Si Schottky structures. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic characterization of the anodically grown insulator indicated 8.2±0.9 A(ring) of a strained SiO2 layer as the interfacial insulator resulting from the photoanodization process.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.103044
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