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Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Au/InGaAs/n-GaAs Schottky barrier diodes

B. KINACI1,* , S. ÇÖREKÇİ2, K. KIZILKAYA1, S. ÖZÇELİK1

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, 06500, Ankara, Turkey
  2. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Arts, Kırklareli University, 39160, Kırklareli, Turkey

Abstract

In this study, the forward and reverse bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Au/InGaAs/n-GaAs Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) have been investigated at room temperature. InGaAs epilayer was grown on (100) oriented n-GaAs substrate using V80-H solid source Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system. Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) was used in order to study the surface properties of InGaAs epilayer. The AFM measurement was performed by using an Omicron variable temperature STM/AFM instrument. The electrical parameters such as barrier height (b), ideality factor (n), series resistance (Rs) and interface states (Nss) of Au/InGaAs/n-GaAs SBDs have been calculated by using forward and reverse bias I-V measurements. The energy distribution of interface states of the structure was obtained from the forward bias I-V measurements by taking the bias dependence of the effective barrier height (e) into account. In addition, the values of Rs and b were determined by using Cheung’s methods and results have been compared with each other..

Keywords

InGaAs/GaAs structure, Schottky barrier diodes, Molecular beam epitaxy, Curent-voltage characteristics.

Citation

B. KINACI, S. ÇÖREKÇİ, K. KIZILKAYA, S. ÖZÇELİK, Current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Au/InGaAs/n-GaAs Schottky barrier diodes, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 6, 1-2, January-February 2012, pp.327-330 (2012).

Submitted at: Nov. 14, 2011

Accepted at: Feb. 20, 2012