Annealing Effect on Dark Electrical Conductivity and Photoconductivity of Ga-In-Se Thin Films |
M. Isika, H.H. Gullub
aDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara 06836, Turkey bDepartment of Physics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara 06800, Turkey |
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Dark-conductivity and photoconductivity properties of thermally evaporated Ga-In-Se (GIS) thin films were investigated in the temperature range of 80-430 K. All measurements were performed on as-grown and annealed GIS thin films at 300 and 400° to get information about the effect of the annealing temperature on the conductivity properties. Room temperature conductivity was obtained as 1.8 × 10-8 Ω-1 cm-1 for as-grown films and increased to 3.6 × 10-4 Ω-1 cm-1 for annealed films at 400°. Analysis of the dark-conductivity data of as-grown films revealed nearly intrinsic type of conductivity with 1.70 eV band gap energy. Temperature dependent dark conductivity curves exhibited two regions in the 260-360 and 370-430 K for both of annealed GIS films. Conductivity activation energies were found as 0.05, 0.16 and 0.05, 0.56 eV for films annealed at temperatures of 300 and 400°, respectively. The dependence of photoconductivity on illumination intensity was also studied in the range from 17 to 113 mW/cm2. |
DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.133.1119 PACS numbers: 73.50.-h, 73.61.-r, 73.61.Jc |