Modulation Doping of Silicon Nanowires to Tune the Contact Properties of Nano-Scale Schottky Barriers

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Beitragende

  • Soundarya Nagarajan - , Professur für Nanoelektronik, NaMLab - Nanoelectronic materials laboratory gGmbH (Autor:in)
  • Daniel Hiller - , Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Autor:in)
  • Ingmar Ratschinski - , Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Autor:in)
  • Dirk König - , Australian National University (Autor:in)
  • Sean C. Smith - , Australian National University (Autor:in)
  • Thomas Mikolajick - , Professur für Nanoelektronik, NaMLab - Nanoelectronic materials laboratory gGmbH (Autor:in)
  • Jens Trommer - , Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, NaMLab - Nanoelectronic materials laboratory gGmbH (Autor:in)

Abstract

Doping silicon on the nanoscale by the intentional introduction of impurities into the intrinsic semiconductor suffers from effects such as dopant deactivation, random dopant fluctuations, out-diffusion, and mobility degradation. This paper presents the first experimental proof that doping of silicon nanowires can also be achieved via the purposeful addition of aluminium-induced acceptor states to the SiO2 shell around a silicon nanowire channel. It is shown that modulation doping lowers the overall resistance of silicon nanowires with nickel silicide Schottky contacts by up to six orders of magnitude. The effect is consistently observed for various channel geometries and systematically studied as a function of Al2O3 content during fabrication. The transfer length method is used to separate the effects on the channel conductivity from that on the barriers. A silicon resistivity is achieved as low as 0.04–0.06 Ω ·cm in the nominal undoped material. In addition, the specific contact resistivity is also strongly influenced by the modulation doping and reduced down to 3.5E-7 Ω · cm2, which relates to lowering the effective Schottky barrier to 0.09 eV. This alternative doping method has the potential to overcome the issues associated with doping and contact formation on the nanoscale.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer2300600
Seitenumfang8
FachzeitschriftAdvanced materials interfaces
Jahrgang11(2024)
Ausgabenummer1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 31 Okt. 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Mendeley a5c1cf6f-f4eb-38ae-ba9a-430bbed5523d
WOS 001082641900001
ORCID /0000-0003-3814-0378/work/146646235

Schlagworte

Fächergruppen, Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche, Fachgebiete nach Destatis

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Schlagwörter

  • contact resistance, modulation doping, nickel silicide, Schottky barrier height, silicon nanowires, transfer length method, Transfer length method, Nickel silicide, Contact resistance, Modulation doping, Silicon nanowires