Opposite effects of NO$_2$ on electrical injection in porous silicon gas sensors

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2003-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311272v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

3 pages, 3 figures, requires SIunits package

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1757025

The electrical conductance of porous silicon fabricated with heavily doped p-type silicon is very sensitive to NO$_2$. A concentration of 10 ppb can be detected by monitoring the current injection at fixed voltage. However, we show that the sign of the injection variations depends on the porous layer thickness. If the thickness is sufficiently low -- of the order of few \micro\meter{} -- the injection decreases instead of increasing. We discuss the effect in terms of an already proposed twofold action of NO$_2$, according to which the free carrier density increases, and simultaneously the energy bands are bent at the porous silicon surface.

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