• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.151-155
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• 2015

We fabricated the Cu Schottky contact on an n-type Ge wafer and investigated the forward bias current-voltage (I-V) characteristics in the temperature range of 100~300 K. The zero bias barrier height and ideality factor were determined based on the thermionic emission (TE) model. The barrier height increased and the ideality factor decreased with increasing temperature. Such temperature dependence of the barrier height and the ideality factor was associated with spatially inhomogeneous Schottky barriers. A notable deviation from the theoretical Richardson constant (140.0 Acm^-2K^-2 for n-Ge) on the conventional Richardson plot was alleviated by using the modified Richardson plot, which yielded the Richardson constant of 392.5 Acm^-2K^-2. Finally, we applied the theory of space-charge-limitedcurrent (SCLC) transport to the high forward bias region to find the density of localized defect states (N_t), which was determined to be 1.46 × 10¹² eV^-1cm^-3.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2000

We have fabricated LB ultra-thin films of maleate system by LB technique and evaluated the deposited status of LB ultra-thin films by I-V characteristics such as capacitance. It was found that the thickness of LB ultra-thin per layer is $27~30[{\AA}]$ by XRD. And, we have known that the conductivity along the horizontal direction of LB ultra-thin films was about $10^{-8}[S/cm]$, it corresponds to the semiconducting materials. Also, the I-V characteristics along the vertical direction of LB ultra-thin films was dominated by Schottky type current, the activation energy obtained by current-temperature characteristics was about 0.84[eV] and the conductivity was about $10^{-14}[S/cm]$, it corresponds to the insulator. And, the anisotropic conduction mechanism of the LB ultra-thin films in vertical direction and horizontal direction is determined by the hydrophilic group and the hydrophobic group in LB ultra-thin films. The above results are applicable to the semiconductor devices such as switching device, which function at the molecular level.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.460-463
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• 2000

The current-voltage characteristics of the sandwich system at different annealing temperatures and different bias voltages have been studied. In order to prepare the Al/V$O_X$/Al sandwich devices structure, thin films of vanadium oxide(V$O_X$) was deposited by r.f. magnetron sputtering from $V_2$$O_5$ target in 10% gas mixture of argon and oxygen, and annealed during lhour at different temperatures in vacuum. Crystall structure, surface morphology, and thickness of films were characterized through XRD, SEM and I-V characteristics were measured by electrometer. The films prepared below 20$0^{\circ}C$ were amorphous, and those prepared above 300 $^{\circ}C$were polycrystalline. At low fields electron injected to conduction band of vanadium oxide and formed space charge, current was limited by trap. Conduction mechanism at mid fields due to Schottky emission, while at high fields it changed to Fowler-Nordheim tunneling effects.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1990.11a
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• pp.121-124
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• 1990

In this paper, we study the electrical conduction mechanism in Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) ultra thin films. The LB device was a metal/LB films/metal sandwich structure, where metal is electrode. In our experiments, the temperature depend on the current at above $0^{\circ}C$. This phenomena show that the electrical conduction current is a schottky current inherent to LB ultra thin films.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.11c
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• pp.819-821
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• 1998

Arachidic acid(AA) was used as LB films and its dielectric and conduction characteristics were investigated. The relative dielectric constant(${\varepsilon}_{LB}$) of AA LB films obtained from capacitance-frequency properties was about $3.5{\sim}4.1$. And the conductivity(${\sigma}_{LB}$) of AA LB films obtained from Current-Voltage characteristics was about $2.6{\times}10^{-15}[S/cm]$. Also, the conduction mechanism of current in LB films was dependant on Schottky type and the barrier height obtained from Schottky plot was about 1.4[eV].

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.141-146
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• 2002

The effect of the wide-bandgap Schottky barrier enhancement cap layer on the performance of metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors (MSMPD's) is presented. Judged by the dc characteristics, no considerable increase in recombination loss of carriers is resulted by the incorporation of the cap layer. However, about 45% of the detection efficiency is lost for the cap-layered MSMPD's even with a graded layer incorporated under pulse operation, and it was found to be due mainly to the capturing and slow release of the photocarriers at the heterointerface. The loss mechanism of the pulse detection efficiency is believed to be responsible for the intersymbol interference and the increased bit-error-rate (BER) observed in MSMPD's when used with a high bit rate pseudo-random-bit-stream (PRBS) data pattern.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07c
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• pp.1562-1564
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• 1996

Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) method have been used by many rescarcher because of its facility to control the thickness of film as molecular order and orientation of molecular. We fabricated MIM device using copolymer LB films of $2C_{18}MA-VE_2$ and elecctrical conduction mechanism in ultra-thin LB film were investigated. In our experimental results, the maleate copolymer LB film have the properity of insulator like organic ultra-thin fiim. Its diclcctric constant was about 3.5 and its voltage generation about 0.1 Volt. And Schottky current was apeared as electrical conduction current and Schottky barrier was about 0.9(eV).

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.12
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• pp.2166-2172
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• 2007

In this study a low-signal equivalent circuit based on the Double Schottky Barrier model is proposed for ZnO-based varistor. Since pin-lead inductance and stray capacitance are considered in pin-lead type ZnO varistor these inductance and capacitance could be removed from the experimental dielectric data of the varistor. According to the equivalent circuit simulation results the higher the varistor-voltage of varistor sample the capacitance of dielectric layer is larger, and the capacitances of semiconducting layer and depletion layer are smaller, while the parallel resistances of semiconducting layer and depletion layer are more larger values. Spectra of the dielectric loss factor $tan{\delta}$ show 2 peaks in low frequency and high frequency regions respectively. The low-frequency peak is due to the relaxation by deep donors and the high-frequency peak is due to the relaxation by shallow donors. Above results are well consistent with the theoretical mechanism of ZnO varistor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.50-56
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• 1985

A common failure mechanism in bulk CMOS integrated circuits is the latch-up of parasitic SCR structure inherent in the bulk CMOS structure. Latch-up triggering and holding charac-teristics have been measured in the test devicrs which include conventional and Schottky-damped CMOS structures with various well depths and n+/p+ spacings. It is demonstrated that Schottky-clamped CMOS is more latch-up immune than conventional bulk CMOS. Finally, the simulation results by circuit simulation program (SPICE) are compared with measured results in order to verify the validity of the latch-up modal composed of nan, pnp transistors and two external resistors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.223-226
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• 1998

In this paper, we have investigated how morphology and electrical properties in Polyphenylene sulfide(PPS) are changed by uniaxial elongation. XRD pattern shows that interplanar distance and crystallinities are decreased by increasing elongation ratio. Electrical conduction mechanism of PPS is explained as schottky emission from analysis of electrical current. The electrical current is decreased by increasing elongation ratio. The conductivity is changed remarkably above the glass transition temperature around $(82^{\circ}C)$. The band gap of PPS is evaluated as 3.9-4(eV) from the results of photoconductivity. Increarnent of elongation ratio gives us some information about deep trap formation from photocurrent.