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CuCdO2 delafossite oxide film as an interface layer was coated by sol–gel spin coating on p-Si substrate, and thus an Al/p-Si/CuCdO2/Al diode was fabricated. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) was used to obtain an image of the CuCdO2 oxide film. The temperature-dependent behavior of the diode was studied by current–voltage (I–V) and capacitance/conductance–voltage (C/G–V) measurements over the 100–400 K temperature range. It is observed that the ideality factor (n) decreases and zero-bias barrier height (Φb0) increases with an increase in temperature. This abnormal behavior of n and Φb0 is attributed to barrier inhomogeneities by assuming Gaussian distribution (GD) at the metal–semiconductor interface. For each temperature, the barrier height values obtained from both the conventional I–V and Norde method show good agreement with each other. The I–V–T characteristics have shown the GD, giving a mean barrier height (\( {\bar{\Phi }}_{b0} \)) of 1.04 eV and a standard deviation (σs) of 0.12 V. A modified Richardson plot of [ln(I0/T2) − q2σ 2s /2k2T2 versus q/kT] yields \( {\bar{\Phi }}_{b0} \) and A* as 1.06 eV and 31.21 A cm−2 K−2 (indicating an agreement with the theoretical value of 32 A cm−2 K−2), showing the promise of CuCdO2/Si as temperature sensing with a Schottky junction. In addition, C–V and G–V measurements show that the C value decreases and the G value increases as the frequency increases, depending on a continuous distribution of interface states. Also, the capacitance and the conductance values decrease with increasing temperature. The results suggest that Al/p-Si/CuCdO2/Al diode can be used for temperature sensing applications.
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This study was supported by Scientific Project Unit of Fırat University under Project No.: MF.16.79. Also, this research was supported by the Research Center for Advanced Materials Science at King Khalid University through a Grant RCAMS/ KKU/007-18. Authors want to acknowledge them for their support.
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Dere, A., TataroŸğlu, A., Al-Sehemi, A.G. et al. A Temperature Sensor Based on Al/p-Si/CuCdO2/Al Diode for Low Temperature Applications. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 2317–2325 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-020-07989-z
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