Truly ohmic contacts in engineered Al/Si/InGaAs(001) diodes

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作者
De Franceschi, S
Beltram, F
Marinelli, C
Sorba, L
Lazzarino, M
Muller, BH
Franciosi, A
机构
[1] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
[2] INFM, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
[3] INFM, Lab Nazl TASC, Area Ric, I-34012 Trieste, Italy
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10.1063/1.121244
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report the fabrication of nonalloyed ohmic contacts on n-InxGa1-xAs (0.25 less than or equal to x less than or equal to 0.38) grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on GaAs(001), This result is obtained by suppression of the native Al/InGaAs Schottky barrier by means of the MBE growth of Si bilayers at the metal-semiconductor interface. Truly ohmic contacts are demonstrated by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy and current-voltage techniques. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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页码:1996 / 1998
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