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Ali Bahari

Ali Bahari

Academic rank: Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Science
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Research

Title
Synthesis and characterization of silanized-SiO2/povidone nanocomposite as a gate insulator: The influence of Si emiconductor film type on the interface traps by deconvolution of Si2s
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Nano-composite gate dielectric Surface roughness Field-effect-transistor Deconvoluted XPS
Year
2018
Journal CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS
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Researchers Adeleh Hashemi ، Ali Bahari

Abstract

The polymer nanocomposite as a gate dielectric film was prepared via sol-gel method. The formation of crosslinked structure among nanofillers and polymer matrix was proved by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Differential thermal analysis (DTA) results showed significant increase in the thermal stability of the nanocomposite with respect to that of pure polymer. The nanocomposite films deposited on the p- and n-type Si substrates formed very smooth surface with rms roughness of 0.045 and 0.058 nm respectively. Deconvoluted Si2s spectra revealed the domination of the SieOH hydrogen bonds and SieOeSi covalence bonds in the structure of the nanocomposite film deposited on the p- and n-type Si semiconductor layers respectively. The fabricated n-channel field-effect-transistor (FET) showed the low threshold voltage and leakage currents because of the stronger connection between the nanocomposite and n-type Si substrate. Whereas, dominated hydroxyl groups in the nanocomposite dielectric film deposited on the p-type Si substrate increased trap states in the interface, led to the drop of FET operation.