Invertis Journal of Science & Technology

  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 3

Temperature dependent electrical characteristics of PEDOT:PSS/n-Si heterojunction diode

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi-110016, India

Abstract

We fabricate PEDOT:PSS/n-Si heterojunction diode by deposition of Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) on n-type Si wafer using spin coating process. In this study, temperature dependent electrical properties of the diode were investigated. This heterojunction diode showed a good quality rectifying behavior. It was found that the ideality factor increases and barrier height decreases with decrease in temperature. Such a behavior is attributed to barrier inhomogeneities. Resistivity measurements showed that resistivity decreases with increasing temperature.

Keywords

PEDOT:PSS, heterojunction, ideality factor