<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Djeffal Fayçal</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hichem Ferhati</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benhaya, Abdelhamid</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bendjerad, Adel</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Effects of annealing temperature and ITO intermediate thin-layer on electrical proprieties of Au/p-Si structure deposited by RF magnetron sputtering, ISSN 0749-6036</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Superlattices and Microstructures </style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749603618324765</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">128</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">382-391</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In this paper, a new&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Au/p-Si&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Schottky Barrier&amp;nbsp;Diode (&lt;em&gt;SBD&lt;/em&gt;) based on&amp;nbsp;Indium&amp;nbsp;Tin Oxide (&lt;em&gt;ITO&lt;/em&gt;) intermediate&amp;nbsp;thin-film&amp;nbsp;is proposed and experimentally investigated by including the annealing&amp;nbsp;temperature effect. We elaborated the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Au/ITO/p-Si&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;structure by means of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;RF&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;magnetron sputtering&amp;nbsp;technique and compared its electrical properties with the conventional&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Au/p-Si SBD&lt;/em&gt;. The role of the annealing process at&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;200&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;400 °C&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;as well as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;ITO&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;interface thin-layer in improving the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;SBD&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;basic electrical parameters is analyzed. The characterization has revealed that a higher Schottky barrier (&lt;em&gt;ϕ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;b&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt;) of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;0.79V&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;is achieved. Moreover, close to unit ideality factor of (&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt; = &lt;em&gt;1.25&lt;/em&gt;) and reduced density of states (&lt;em&gt;N&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;ss&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; = &lt;em&gt;1.5&lt;/em&gt; × &lt;em&gt;10&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;12&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;cm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;em&gt;−2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;) and series resistance of (&lt;em&gt;R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;&lt;em&gt;s&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/sub&gt; = &lt;em&gt;32Ω&lt;/em&gt;) are recorded. These achievements can be attributed to the enhanced interface quality provided by introducing the&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;ITO&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;thin-film. Moreover, the annealing process enables improved&amp;nbsp;crystallinity&amp;nbsp;and allows efficient rearrangement of atoms at the interfaces. The thermal stability behavior of the investigated designs is analyzed, where new Figure of Merit (&lt;em&gt;FoMs&lt;/em&gt;) parameters are proposed. It is found that the annealed&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Au/ITO/p-Si&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;structure offers the opportunity for suppressing the degradation related-heating effects. Therefore, the proposed&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Au/ITO/p-Si SBD&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;pinpoint a new path toward achieving superior electrical characteristics and improved thermal stability, which makes it a potential alternative for high-performance microelectronic and optoelectronic applications.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>