A comparative study on electrical characteristics of Ni/n-Si and Ni/p-Si Schottky diodes with Pinus Sylvestris Resin interfacial layer in dark and under illumination at room temperature

In this study, we evaluated the potential use of the Pinus Sylvestris Resin (PSR) organic material in the metal/ interface layer/semiconductor Schottky diode (SD) structure as an interface layer. For this purpose, PSR/n-Si and PSR/p-Si device configurations were prepared by applying PSR on the n and p-type Si wafers by spin coating method, and current-voltage (I-V) and capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics were examined. In order to understand the photoresponse features of the PSR/Si SDs, the I-V characteristics of the devices were investigated in dark and under various illumination intensities. It is seen that fabricated devices exhibited strong photodiode characteristics to the increasing light intensity. Furthermore, the surface morphology, thickness, and chemical composition of the PSR film on Si wafer were determined by SEM/EDS measurements. Also, several parameters, such as ideality factor, saturation current, built-in voltage, carrier concentration, Fermi level, and barrier height, were extracted from the electrical measurements. The obtained results reveal that the prepared devices can be used as an efficient material for applications in optoelectronic applications such as solar cells, photodiode and photodetector.

Dergi

OPTICAL MATERIALS

Yıl

2021

Cilt

119

ISSN

0925-3467

eISSN

1873-1252

DOI

10.1016/j.optmat.2021.111380

WoS UID

WOS:000684534300005