โ Scribed by M. Din; R.D. Gould
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Cadmium arsenide is a II-V semiconductor, exhibiting n-type intrinsic conductivity with high mobility and narrow bandgap. It is deposited by thermal evaporation, and has shown the Schottky and Poole-Frenkel effects at high electric fields, but requires further electrical characterisation. This has now been extended to low-field van der Pauw lateral resistivity measurements on films of thickness up to 1.5 mm. Resistivity was observed to decrease with increasing film thickness up to 0.5 mm from about 3 ร 10 ร3 V m to 10 ร5 V m, where the crystalline granular size increases with film thickness. This decrease in resistivity was attributed to a decrease in grain boundary scattering and increased mobility. Substrate temperature during deposition also influenced the resistivity, which decreased from around 10 ร4 V m to (10 ร5 to 10 ร6 ) V m for an increase in substrate deposition temperature from 300 K to 423 K. This behaviour appears to result from varying grain sizes and ratios of crystalline to amorphous material. Resistivity decreased with deposition rate, reaching a minimum value at about 1.5 nm s ร1 , before slowly increasing again at higher rates. It was concluded that this resulted from a dependence of the film stoichiometry on deposition rate. The dependence of resistivity on temperature indicates that intercrystalline barriers dominate the conductivity at higher temperatures, with a hopping conduction process at low temperatures.
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