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Electrical Techniques
MSN506 notes
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Electrical characterization• Electronic properties of materials are
closely related to the structure of the material on the atomic scale
• In order to use materials in device applications, we must characterize and understand their electrical properties
• Study of electrical properties at the nanometer scale is in itself interesting to physics, as quantum effects may dominate in this regime, even at room temperature
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Conduction regimes
• Bulk macroscopic conduction– Large number of states contribute to overall
current– Large number of electrons – Resistivity, mobility, electric field, bias voltage,
macrocopic currents– Metals, semiconductors, polymeric conductors– Quantum effects are averaged out by thermal
effects
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Conduction at the nanoscale
• Small number of states can affect the overall current
• Wavefunction coherence lengths are comparable to characteristic device dimensions
• Single electrons charging effects can be significant
• These can amount to overall macroscopic electronic properties that show deviations from bulk electronic properties
http://www.nanohub.org/courses/fundamentals_of_nanoelectronics
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Charge transport• Convenient simplifications to reduce
complexity of problem– Still can be quite complicated
• Drift-Diffusion– Bulk-like transport in semiconductors
• Bolztman Transport Equation– Semiclassical transport considering the
distributions of carriers to energies and momenta, taking into account scatterings
• Tunneling picture
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Flow of electrons between two reservoirs
• Electrons obey the Fermi-Dirac distribution
As T ~ 0 K, this becomes a stepfunction
A metal/semiconductor electrodeTwo electrodes with some other material (states) in between
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Flow of electrons between two reservoirs
Two electrodes with some other material (states) in between
Availability of carrierson the left, and empty slots on the right,How fast the carriers tunnel from the left to the centerHow fast the carriers tunnel from the center to the right … basically determine the current
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Molecular Break Junctions
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Molecular Break Junctions
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Transconductance Amplifier
• Converts the current into a voltage
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Low temperature Preamplifier• Opamps can not be cooled
• An FET preamplifier can help carry the signal to a room temperature stage
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IV spectroscopy• Measuring IV as a function of
– Temperature– Illumination– Magnetic field etc.
• Gives information about – the material conductivity, band structure,
carrier concentration– Contacts– Transport mode
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Probe Station
• Multiple probes can be used to make IV and other electrical measurements on micofabricated devices
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Four point technique
• Make quick measurements of conductivity on novel materials where contacts are not ideal
Bulk Sample
Thin Sheet
t >> s
thickness t << s
Typical probe spacing s ~ 1 mm
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Capacitance Measurements
• Parallel plate capacitor
Linear capacitor
Parallel plate
We can measure dielectric constant if we know the dielectric thickness
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Capacitance Spectroscopy• When
– semiconductors are used (surface potential and electric field are not linearly dependent)
– the dielectric layer has electric field dependent conductivity (loss)
– There are traps (or states) that can be charged and discharged only at certain voltages
• We can measure the small signal capacitance as a function of DC bias, and interpret C-V curves to gain information about the system
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C-V characterization of MOS structures
• Measurement of C-V characteristics– Apply any dc bias, and superimpose a small (15
mV) ac signal– Generally measured at 1 MHz (high frequency)
or at variable frequencies between 1KHz to 1 MHz
– The dc bias VG is slowly varied to get quasi-continuous C-V characteristics
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Measured C-V characteristics on an n-type Si
ND = 9.0 1014 cm3
xox = 0.119 m
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Doping dependence of a MOS capacitor
Can tell you carrier concentration, dielectric thickness or constant,Dielectric interface trap densities, Carrier diffusion properties etc.
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Capacitance Measurements• Modelling can help you extract many material properties
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Capacitance Measurements• Example: Quantum states of InAs nanostructures in GaAs
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Capacitance Measurements• Example: Quantum states of InAs nanostructures in GaAs
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DLTS: Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy• Measures escape rate of carriers