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- Title
Effect of annealing temperature on the electrical properties of Au/TaO/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure.
- Authors
Prasanna Lakshmi, B.; Rajagopal Reddy, V.; Janardhanam, V.; Siva Pratap Reddy, M.; Lee, Jung-Hee
- Abstract
We report on the effect of an annealing temperature on the electrical properties of Au/TaO/n-GaN metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure by current-voltage ( I- V) and capacitance-voltage ( C- V) measurements. The measured Schottky barrier height ( Φ) and ideality factor n values of the as-deposited Au/TaO/n-GaN MIS structure are 0.93 eV ( I- V) and 1.19. The barrier height (BH) increases to 1.03 eV and ideality factor decreases to 1.13 upon annealing at 500 C for 1 min under nitrogen ambient. When the contact is annealed at 600 C, the barrier height decreases and the ideality factor increases to 0.99 eV and 1.15. The barrier heights obtained from the C- V measurements are higher than those obtained from I- V measurements, and this indicates the existence of spatial inhomogeneity at the interface. Cheung's functions are also used to calculate the barrier height ( Φ), ideality factor ( n), and series resistance ( R) of the Au/TaO/n-GaN MIS structure. Investigations reveal that the Schottky emission is the dominant mechanism and the Poole-Frenkel emission occurs only in the high voltage region. The energy distribution of interface states is determined from the forward bias I- V characteristics by taking into account the bias dependence of the effective barrier height. It is observed that the density value of interface states for the annealed samples with interfacial layer is lower than that of the density value of interface states of the as-deposited sample.
- Subjects
ANNEALING of metals; TEMPERATURE effect; ELECTRIC properties of metals; GOLD compounds; TANTALUM oxide; GALLIUM nitride; METAL insulator semiconductors; CRYSTAL structure
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2013, Vol 113, Issue 3, p713
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-013-7797-x