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Improved Electrical Properties in Nanocrystalline Si Formed by Metal Induced Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Chunhai Ji  and
Wayne A. Anderson
Chunhai Ji
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Buffalo, NY.
Wayne A. Anderson
Affiliation:
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Buffalo, NY.
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Abstract

In recent work, the electrical properties of metal-induced-grown (MIG) Si thin films were studied by using current-voltage (I-V) data from a metal/Si Schottky contact. It was found that controlling the doping level of the films and annealing in forming gas (15% H2 and 85% N2) can improve the quality of the nc-Si films. From SIMS analysis on the nc-Si film deposited from a highly doped target, the nc-Si can duplicate the doping level of the sputtering target. Study of p-type doped nc-Si films showed that the fabrication of Schottky diodes on nc-Si films made from an extremely high-doped target (∼1020 cm-3) or low-doped target (∼1015cm-3) was not successful. For highly doped p-type films, tunneling causes Ohmic conduction instead of rectifying conduction. For the nc-Si film deposited from a low-doped p-type target, the film shows conversion to n-type characteristics when measured by a hot probe. This might be due to defects or oxygen in the film. N-type films at the middle doping level (∼1017cm-3) gave good Schottky diodes after annealing the film in forming gas at 700°C. The Schottky diodes fabricated by high work-function metal (Au) gave the rectifying ratio of ~∼103. Several techniques, e.g. slow/fast two-step sputtering at low working pressure and surface polishing, were used to improve the photo response of Schottky photodiodes. The open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.164V and short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 2.5 mA/cm2 were achieved under 100mW/cm2 illumination.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 762: Symposium A – Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon-Based Films – 2003 , 2003 , A17.11
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2003

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