Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations

This article reports the effect of n-type GaAs substrate orientation, namely (100), (311)A and (311)B, on the electrical properties of sulfonated polyaniline (SPAN)/GaAs heterojunction devices. In addition, the inhomogeneity of the interface between various GaAs substrates and SPAN is investigated i...

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Main Authors: Jameel, D.A., Aziz, M., Felix, J.F., Al Saqri, N., Taylor, D., Albalawi, H., Alghamdi, H., Al Mashary, F., Henini, M.
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author Jameel, D.A.
Aziz, M.
Felix, J.F.
Al Saqri, N.
Taylor, D.
Albalawi, H.
Alghamdi, H.
Al Mashary, F.
Henini, M.
author_facet Jameel, D.A.
Aziz, M.
Felix, J.F.
Al Saqri, N.
Taylor, D.
Albalawi, H.
Alghamdi, H.
Al Mashary, F.
Henini, M.
author_sort Jameel, D.A.
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description This article reports the effect of n-type GaAs substrate orientation, namely (100), (311)A and (311)B, on the electrical properties of sulfonated polyaniline (SPAN)/GaAs heterojunction devices. In addition, the inhomogeneity of the interface between various GaAs substrates and SPAN is investigated in terms of barrier height and ideality factor by performing I–V measurements at different temperatures (20–420K). The I–V results indicate that the value of the rectification ratio (IF/IR) at 0.5V is higher for SPAN/(311)B GaAs samples than for SPAN/(100) GaAs and SPAN/(311)A GaAs samples. Moreover, the barrier height decreases and the ideality factor increases with decreasing temperature for all three heterostructure devices. The high value of mean barrier ˚¯ b of SPAN/(311)B (calculated from the plots of ˚b0 as a function of 1/2kT) confirms that the GaAs substrate orientation results in an increase of barrier homogeneities. Furthermore,the C-V characteristics were obtained at room temperature. The C-V measurements showed that the carrier distributions at the interface and away from the interface in high index (311) GaAs orientations are more uniform and have better barrier homogeneity than those grown on the conventional (100) GaAs substrates.
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spelling nottingham-395172020-05-04T17:55:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39517/ Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations Jameel, D.A. Aziz, M. Felix, J.F. Al Saqri, N. Taylor, D. Albalawi, H. Alghamdi, H. Al Mashary, F. Henini, M. This article reports the effect of n-type GaAs substrate orientation, namely (100), (311)A and (311)B, on the electrical properties of sulfonated polyaniline (SPAN)/GaAs heterojunction devices. In addition, the inhomogeneity of the interface between various GaAs substrates and SPAN is investigated in terms of barrier height and ideality factor by performing I–V measurements at different temperatures (20–420K). The I–V results indicate that the value of the rectification ratio (IF/IR) at 0.5V is higher for SPAN/(311)B GaAs samples than for SPAN/(100) GaAs and SPAN/(311)A GaAs samples. Moreover, the barrier height decreases and the ideality factor increases with decreasing temperature for all three heterostructure devices. The high value of mean barrier ˚¯ b of SPAN/(311)B (calculated from the plots of ˚b0 as a function of 1/2kT) confirms that the GaAs substrate orientation results in an increase of barrier homogeneities. Furthermore,the C-V characteristics were obtained at room temperature. The C-V measurements showed that the carrier distributions at the interface and away from the interface in high index (311) GaAs orientations are more uniform and have better barrier homogeneity than those grown on the conventional (100) GaAs substrates. Elsevier 2016-06-23 Article PeerReviewed Jameel, D.A., Aziz, M., Felix, J.F., Al Saqri, N., Taylor, D., Albalawi, H., Alghamdi, H., Al Mashary, F. and Henini, M. (2016) Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations. Applied Surface Science, 387 . pp. 228-236. ISSN 0169-4332 (100) GaAs (311)A GaAs (311)B GaAs I–V and C-V http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433216313265 doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.06.097 doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2016.06.097
spellingShingle (100) GaAs (311)A GaAs (311)B GaAs I–V and C-V
Jameel, D.A.
Aziz, M.
Felix, J.F.
Al Saqri, N.
Taylor, D.
Albalawi, H.
Alghamdi, H.
Al Mashary, F.
Henini, M.
Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title_full Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title_fullStr Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title_full_unstemmed Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title_short Electrical performance of conducting polymer (SPAN) grown on GaAs with different substrate orientations
title_sort electrical performance of conducting polymer (span) grown on gaas with different substrate orientations
topic (100) GaAs (311)A GaAs (311)B GaAs I–V and C-V
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