The electrical properties of nanocluster-CdO/p-type silicon heterojunction structure at room temperature
Ş. KARATAŞ1,*
,
A. A. AL-GHAMDI2,
FATEN AL-HAZMI2,
OMAR A. AL-HARTOMY2,3,
FARID EL-TANTAWY4,
F. YAKUPHANOGLU2,5
Affiliation
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, University of Kahramanmaras Sütçü İmam, 46100 Kahramanmaras, Turkey
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tabuk University, Tabuk 71491, Saudia Arabia
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Firat University, Elazig 23169, Turkey
Abstract
The nanocluster CdO thin film was grown on p-type silicon substrate by sol-gel method. The structural properties of grown CdO film on Si substrate were investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM images indicate that the CdO film is consisted of the clusters formed with coming together of the nano-particles. The heterostructure diode, formed from two semiconductor layers having different optical band gap, n-CdO/p-Si is prepared. The electrical properties such as barrier height, ideality factor, interface states density and series resistance of the n-CdO/p-Si heterojunction diode were determined from the current–voltage (I-V) measurements. The values of barrier height and series resistance obtained from Cheung and Norde functions of the heterojunction diode were compared with each other. The interface state density (NSS) as a function of energy distribution (ESS- EV) was extracted from the forward-bias I–V measurements by taking into account the bias b) and series resistance (RS). The density of the interface state was found to vary from 7.52×1012 eV−1 cm−2 to 5.07×1012 eV−1 cm−2..
Keywords
Heterojunction semiconductors, Oxides, Nanostructures, I-V and C-V measurements.
Citation
Ş. KARATAŞ, A. A. AL-GHAMDI, FATEN AL-HAZMI, OMAR A. AL-HARTOMY, FARID EL-TANTAWY, F. YAKUPHANOGLU, The electrical properties of nanocluster-CdO/p-type silicon heterojunction structure at room temperature, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 11-12, November-December 2012, pp.965-970 (2012).
Submitted at: May 7, 2012
Accepted at: Oct. 30, 2012