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ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue 11, Pages 1929-1937Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c01067
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MOST 107-2113-M-007-013-MY3, 107-3017-F-007-002]
- Ministry of Education of Taiwan
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In this study, conductivity measurements were performed on Cu2O and Si materials with different crystal faces using C-AFM. It was found that selecting appropriate contacting faces can induce current rectification effects, which can be applied in the production of photosensitive materials and field-effect transistors.
Conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) was employed to perform conductivity measurements on a facet specific Cu2O cube, octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron and intrinsic Si {100}, {111}, and {110} wafers. Similar I-V curves to those recorded previously using a nanomanipulator were obtained with the exception of high conductivity for the Si {110} wafer. Next, I-V curves of different Cu2O-Si heterostructures were evaluated. Among the nine possible arrangements, Cu2O octahedron/Si {100} wafer and Cu2O octahedron/Si {110} wafer combinations show good current rectification behaviors. Under white light illumination, Cu2O cube/Si {110} wafer and Cu2O rhombic dodecahedron/Si {111} wafer combinations exhibit the largest degrees of photocurrent, so such interfacial plane-controlled semiconductor heterojunctions with light sensitivity can be applied to make photodetectors. Adjusted band diagrams are presented highlighting different interfacial band bending situations to facilitate or inhibit current flow for different Cu2O-Si junctions. More importantly, the observation of clear current-rectifying effects produced at the semiconductor heterojunctions with properly selected contacting faces or planes implies that novel field-effect transistors (FETs) can be fabricated using this design strategy, which should integrate well with current chip manufacturing processes.
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