TY - JOUR
T1 - Film thickness dependence on the electrical and optical properties of PtSi/p-Si(1 0 0) Schottky barrier detector
AU - Lyu, Yen Tang
AU - Lee, Ching Ting
AU - Horng, Gwo Ji
AU - Ho, Chia
AU - Lee, Ching Yuan
AU - Wu, Chung Sen
PY - 2002/3/1
Y1 - 2002/3/1
N2 - We report the PtSi film thickness dependence on the electrical barrier height and quantum efficiency of PtSi Schottky barrier detector (SBD). The thickness of the PtSi film was varied from 20 to 120Å. The electrical barrier height of the SBD is about 0.186±0.002eV. It was observed that the grain size and the film thickness have negligible effect on the electrical barrier height. However, the quantum efficiency of the SBDs is strongly dependent on the film thickness. When the PtSi thickness is about 80Å, the quantum efficiency exhibits its peak value exceeding 1%. The positive quantum efficiency dependence on the film thickness is referred to the enhancement of elastic phonon scattering and the absorption dependence on the film thickness. When the film thickness is thicker than 80Å, the decrease of the quantum efficiency is deduced from the inelastic scattering, like hole/hole scattering, imperfection scattering and impurity scattering during the hot hole transporting to the PtSi/Si interface.
AB - We report the PtSi film thickness dependence on the electrical barrier height and quantum efficiency of PtSi Schottky barrier detector (SBD). The thickness of the PtSi film was varied from 20 to 120Å. The electrical barrier height of the SBD is about 0.186±0.002eV. It was observed that the grain size and the film thickness have negligible effect on the electrical barrier height. However, the quantum efficiency of the SBDs is strongly dependent on the film thickness. When the PtSi thickness is about 80Å, the quantum efficiency exhibits its peak value exceeding 1%. The positive quantum efficiency dependence on the film thickness is referred to the enhancement of elastic phonon scattering and the absorption dependence on the film thickness. When the film thickness is thicker than 80Å, the decrease of the quantum efficiency is deduced from the inelastic scattering, like hole/hole scattering, imperfection scattering and impurity scattering during the hot hole transporting to the PtSi/Si interface.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0254-0584(01)00464-3
DO - 10.1016/S0254-0584(01)00464-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036497819
VL - 74
SP - 177
EP - 181
JO - Materials Chemistry and Physics
JF - Materials Chemistry and Physics
SN - 0254-0584
IS - 2
ER -