TY - JOUR TT - The thickness effect of insulator layer between the semiconductor and metal contact on C-V characteristics of Al/Si3N4/p-Si device AU - Orak, İkram AU - Koçyiğit, Adem PY - 2017 DA - October JF - Pamukkale Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi PB - Pamukkale Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2147-5881 SP - 536 EP - 542 VL - 23 IS - 5 KW - Al/Si3N4/p- Si KW - Schottky KW - Kapasitans özelliği KW - MIS KW - Kalınlık etkisi N2 - Metal-insulator-semiconductor(MIS) structures have great interest for their good applications in electronicand optoelectronic. Their importance can be attributed that they have storagelayer property, capacitance effect and high dielectric constant. For thisreason, two samples of Si3N4 layers were deposited withplasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) technique on p-type Si; firstis about 5 nm thickness and the other is about 50 nm. The thicknesses of Si3N4were adjusted by an ellipsometer. The thickness effect of Si3N4layers on the Al/Si3N4/p type Si contact was studied withthe capacitance-voltage (C–V) and conductance–voltage (G-V) characteristics ofthe contact at the frequency range from 10 kHz to 1 MHz and applied biasvoltage from −5 V to +5 V at room temperature. In each contact having differentinsulator layers, capacitance values decreased and conductance values increasedwith increasing frequencies. The interface states (Nss), theeffect of series resistance (Rs),barrier height (Φb) andcarrier concentration (Na) werefound from the capacitance-voltage (C–V) and conductance–voltage (G-V)measurements and explained in the details. To determine memristor behavior ofthe Al/Si3N4/p type Si contact, dual C-V and G-Vmeasurements were performed at 500 kHz and the room temperature, and theresults were compared for 5 nm and 50 nm thicknesses layers. 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