Effects of surface properties on barrier height and barrier inhomogeneities of platinum contacts to n-type 4H-SiC

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Lingqin ^a   Qin, Fuwen ^a   Li, Shijuan ^a   Wang, Dejun ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER INHOMOGENEITIES; EFFECTIVE BARRIER HEIGHTS; ELECTRONIC CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; FERMI LEVEL PINNING; HOMOGENEOUS CONTACTS; HYDROGEN PLASMAS; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SURFACE STATE DENSITY;

FERMI LEVEL; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 84881526402     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4816158     Document Type: Article

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