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NANO LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 2029-2033Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl0515697
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The current-bias (I-V) characteristics at various temperatures, T, of focused-ion-beam (FIB)-deposited Pt contacts on GaN nanowires evolves from low-resistance ohmic (linear I-V) to rectifying as the diameter increases, and both exhibit strongly nonmetallic T-dependence. The small-diameter (66 nm) T-dependent resistance is explained by two-dimensional variable range hopping with a small characteristic energy, ensuring low resistance at 300 K. For large diameters (1184 nm), back-to-back Schottky barriers explain the nonlinear V V at all T values and permit an estimate of doping concentration from the bias-dependent barrier height. Both behaviors can be understood by accounting for the role of FIB-induced amorphization of GaN underneath the contact, as confirmed by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy.
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