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Interphase interactions in a Pd-GaAs system and their effect on electrical properties of schottky-barrier structures I. effect of heat treatment on characteristics of GaAs-Pd/Ni contacts

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The electrical characteristics of surface-barrier GaAs-Pd/Ni structures and the physicochemical interaction processes at the metal-semiconductor boundary were comprehensively investigated in relation to heat treatment in various atmospheres. X-Ray structural analysis showed that in the investigated system metallurgical reactions begin at 300–350‡C: Unstable intermediate phases (presumably Pd2Ga) are formed. At 400–550‡C all the palladium is converted to the bound state and the intermetallic compound PdGa is formed. The phase changes have no significant effect on the properties of diode structures fired in a hydrogen atmosphere. Heating in vacuum leads to degradation of the contact parameters at 300‡C or more. This effect is attributed to penetration of oxygen to the interface during formation of the intermediate phases.

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  1. V. D. Kuznetsov Siberian Physicotechnical Institute, Tomsk State University, USSR

    A. P. Vyatkin, N. K. Maksimova, N. M. Panova, E. N. Pekarskii, I. D. Romanova & M. P. Yakubenya

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 3–7, April, 1981

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Vyatkin, A.P., Maksimova, N.K., Panova, N.M. et al. Interphase interactions in a Pd-GaAs system and their effect on electrical properties of schottky-barrier structures I. effect of heat treatment on characteristics of GaAs-Pd/Ni contacts. Soviet Physics Journal 24, 295–298 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898256

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