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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 93, Issue 11, Pages 9137-9144Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1573750
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The electrical characterization of nickel silicide Schottky contacts on silicon carbide (4H-SiC) is reported in this article. In spite of the nearly ideal behavior of the contact at room temperature (n=1.05), the electrical behavior monitored in a wide temperature range exhibited a deviation from the ideality at lower temperatures, thus suggesting that. an inhomogeneous barrier has actually formed. A description of the experimental results by the Tung's model, i.e., considering an effective area of the inhomogeneous contact, provided a procedure for a correct determination of the Richardson's constant A**. An effective area lower than the geometric area of the diode is responsible for the commonly observed discrepancy in the experimental values of A** from its theoretical value in silicon carbide. The same method was applied to Ti/4H-SiC contacts. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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