Electrical characterization of organic-on-inorganic semiconductor Schottky structures

Abstract

We prepared a methyl red/p-InP organic–inorganic (OI) Schottky device formed by evaporation of an organic compound solution directly to a p-InP semiconductor wafer. The value of the optical band gap energy of the methyl red organic film on a glass substrate was obtained as 2.0 eV. It was seen that the Al/methyl red/p-InP contacts showed a good rectifying behavior. An ideality factor of 2.02 and a barrier height (Φb) of 1.11 eV for the Al/methyl red/p-InP contact were determined from the forward bias I–V characteristics. It was seen that the value of 1.11 eV obtained for Φb for the Al/methyl red/p-InP contact was significantly larger than the value of 0.83 eV for conventional Al/p-InP Schottky diodes. Modification of the interfacial potential barrier for the Al/p-InP diode was achieved using a thin interlayer of the methyl red organic semiconductor. This ascribed to the fact that the methyl red interlayer increases the effective Φb by influencing the space charge region of InP.