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Electrical Properties of Diamond Platinum Vertical Schottky Barrier Diodes

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Publication Date2016-01-01
JournalMaterials Today Proceedings
AuthorsA. Y. Polyakov, Н. А. Смирнов, С. А. Тарелкин, A. V. Govorkov, В. С. Бормашов
InstitutionsNational University of Science and Technology, Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials
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Electrical and photoelectrical properties of Pt vertical Schottky barrier diodes prepared on thick lightly-doped CVD diamond grown on heavily-doped IIb HPHT substrates were studied. The films were p-type, with the concentration of residual boron acceptors in the mid-1014 cm-3. The Schottky barrier heights determination from photocurrent spectra measurements revealed the presence of two barrier values of 1.45 eV and 2 eV. The former dominated the temperature dependence of the forward current, the latter determined the voltage cut-off in C-V measurements. The results are explained by difference in oxygen termination conditions. The higher barrier is attributed to oxygen-related states at the terminated surface, the lower barrier is associated with native defects.