Graphene Schottky Junction on Pillar Patterned Silicon Substrate

Autor: Giuseppe Luongo, Alessandro Grillo, Filippo Giubileo, Laura Iemmo, Mindaugas Lukosius, Carlos Alvarado Chavarin, Christian Wenger, Antonio Di Bartolomeo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nanomaterials, Vol 9, Iss 5, p 659 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2079-4991
DOI: 10.3390/nano9050659
Popis: A graphene/silicon junction with rectifying behaviour and remarkable photo-response was fabricated by transferring a graphene monolayer on a pillar-patterned Si substrate. The device forms a 0.11 eV Schottky barrier with 2.6 ideality factor at room temperature and exhibits strongly bias- and temperature-dependent reverse current. Below room temperature, the reverse current grows exponentially with the applied voltage because the pillar-enhanced electric field lowers the Schottky barrier. Conversely, at higher temperatures, the charge carrier thermal generation is dominant and the reverse current becomes weakly bias-dependent. A quasi-saturated reverse current is similarly observed at room temperature when the charge carriers are photogenerated under light exposure. The device shows photovoltaic effect with 0.7% power conversion efficiency and achieves 88 A/W photoresponsivity when used as photodetector.
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