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The aim of the present work is the growth by PVD techniques and ulterior characterization of electrical contacts to columnar porous silicon (PSi) as an approach to reliable PSi sensor devices. Contacts consist of a NiCr (40:60) and Au bilayer on the PSi surface deposited by magnetron sputtering. These structures show a good adhesion to the rough surface of columnar PSi. The morphology of these electrical contacts is characterized by electron microscopy and their crystalline structure by X-ray diffraction. Compositional profiles are determined by Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, which demonstrate that the infiltration of NiCr into the PSi is at the origin of the metallic thin film adhesion improvement. I–V characteristics and impedance spectroscopy measurements show that this configuration provides rectifying electrical contacts to PSi, for which a simple equivalent circuit based on one resistor and two capacitors can be modeled. These results further support the use of PSi electrical structures for sensing purposes.
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D. Gallach thanks the Domingo Martínez Foundation for its financial support. C.S. acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education for its support via the Ramon y Cajal programme. M.S. thanks the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL Braga, Portugal), for a doctoral grant. This work was partially funded by Projects EUI2008-00172 and MAT2008-06858-C02-01/NAN of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
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Gallach, D., Torres-Costa, V., García-Pelayo, L. et al. Properties of bilayer contacts to porous silicon. Appl. Phys. A 107, 293–300 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-6851-4
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