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The possible current-conduction mechanism (CCMs) of the Au/CoSO4-PVP/n-Si junctions was investigated using temperature-dependence current–voltage (I–V) experiments over 100–360 K. The experimental results showed that the value of BH increases approximately linearly with increasing temperature. Such positive temperature coefficient (α = ΔΦB0/ΔT) is in agreement with the reported negative temperature coefficient of the bandgap of Si (= − 0.473 meV/K). The (nap−1−1) vs q/2kT curves have different characters in two temperature ranges due to having separate two barrier distributions. The ρ2 and ρ3 values obtained from intercept and slope of these curves as 0.521 V and 0.011 V for 240–360 K temperature range and 0.737 V and 0.004 V for the 100–220 K range. This results show that the high temperature region with smaller ρ2 and larger ρ3 voltage deformation coefficients has a wider and greater of the barrier height distribution than the second region. As an evidence for the Gaussian distribution, the ΦB0 and standard deviation (σ0) were derived from the intercept and slope of the ΦB0-q/2kT curves as 1.14 eV and 0.163 V at high temperatures and 0.62 eV and 0.088 V at low temperatures. The Richardson constant obtained as 102 A/cm2K2 for 240–360 K temperature range using standard deviation value which is similar to the theoretical Richardson constant value of silicon (112 A/cm2K2). For each temperature, the profile of Nss vs (Ec–Ess) was provided using the voltage-dependent effective barrier height (Φe) value. It was observed that these surface conditions decreased with increasing temperature.
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Elamen, H., Badali, Y., Güneşer, M.T. et al. The possible current-conduction mechanism in the Au/(CoSO4-PVP)/n-Si junctions. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 18640–18648 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04406-3
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