ON THE PHYSICS OF METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES

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MONCH, W
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[1] Lab. fur Festkorperphysik, Duisburg Univ.
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10.1088/0034-4885/53/3/001
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Almost all metal-semiconductor or Schottky contacts exhibit rectifying behaviour which is caused by a depletion layer on the semiconductor side of the interface. The electronic properties of a Schottky diode are characterised by its barrier height which is the energy difference between the top of the valence band of the semiconductor and the Fermi level at the interface. The physical mechanism primarily determining barrier height is provided by the decay of the metal's electron wavefunctions into the semiconductor in the energy range between the top of the valence band and the Fermi level where the metal conduction band overlaps the semiconductor band gap. These wavefunction tails are described as the continuum of metal-induced gap states (MIGS) which are derived from the virtual gap states of the complex semiconductor band structure.
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