Four contact current voltage characteristics of high aspect ratio, moderately doped silicon nanowires will be presented and discussed. A nonlinear behavior of the current as a function of the voltage drop has been detected, at room temperature, in small silicon nanowires: the current increases quadratically with respect to the voltage drop increasing. The dependency of this nonlinear behavior with temperature is reported. In this work it will be shown that a possible explanation of this effect can be given taking in account the silicon nanowire surface roughness, that drives the carrier backscattering. This hypothesis is supported by Monte Carlo simulations based on a simple model. The simulation results are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.
Surface roughness and electron backscattering in high aspect ratio silicon nanowires
PENNELLI, GIOVANNI;BRUSCHI, PAOLO
2011-01-01
Abstract
Four contact current voltage characteristics of high aspect ratio, moderately doped silicon nanowires will be presented and discussed. A nonlinear behavior of the current as a function of the voltage drop has been detected, at room temperature, in small silicon nanowires: the current increases quadratically with respect to the voltage drop increasing. The dependency of this nonlinear behavior with temperature is reported. In this work it will be shown that a possible explanation of this effect can be given taking in account the silicon nanowire surface roughness, that drives the carrier backscattering. This hypothesis is supported by Monte Carlo simulations based on a simple model. The simulation results are in qualitative agreement with the experimental data.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.