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Scanning Probing of the Tribovoltaic Effect at the Sliding Interface of Two Semiconductors

Journal

ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 21, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202000928

Keywords

conductive atomic force microscopy; contact electrification; electron transfer; semiconductors; tribovoltaic effect

Funding

  1. Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission [Z171100002017017, Y3993113DF] Funding Source: Medline
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51605033, 51432005] Funding Source: Medline
  3. National Key R & D Project from Minister of Science and Technology [2016YFA0202704] Funding Source: Medline

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Contact electrification (CE or triboelectrification) is a common phenomenon, which can occur for almost all types of materials. In previous studies, the CE between insulators and metals has been widely discussed, while CE involving semiconductors is only recently. Here, a tribo-current is generated by sliding an N-type diamond coated tip on a P-type or N-type Si wafers. The density of surface states of the Si wafer is changed by introducing different densities of doping. It is found that the tribo-current between two sliding semiconductors increases with increasing density of surface states of the semiconductor and the sliding load. The results suggest that the tribo-current is induced by the tribovoltaic effect, in which the electron-hole pairs at the sliding interface are excited by the energy release during friction, which may be due to the transition of electrons between the surface states during contact, or bond formation across the sliding interface. The electron-hole pairs at the sliding interface are subsequently separated by the built-in electric field at the PN or NN heterojunctions, which results in a tribo-current, in analogy to that which occurs in the photovoltaic effect.

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