Abstract
Low-resistance Ohmic contacts fabricated by selenium passivation between titanium and n-type silicon (1 0 0) substrates have been characterized by the four-point probe and circular transmission line method. Selenium passivation terminates dangling bonds on the Si(1 0 0) surface and reduces the Schottky barrier height between Ti and n-type Si(1 0 0) substrates. Sheet resistance of the Ti-Si contacts on Se-passivated 1019 cm-3 doped Si substrates shows a ∼30% reduction as compared with control samples. Accordingly, the extracted contact resistance is reduced by about an order of magnitude for samples with different Ti thicknesses and different annealing temperatures. A 29-times reduction in contact resistivity is achieved by Se passivation on highly-doped Si-on-insulator substrates with a 500 un-doped Si buffer layer.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 031 |
Pages (from-to) | 547-550 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 21 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films