학술논문

Fabrication and Energy Band Alignment of n-ZnO/p-CuI Heterojunction
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Electron Device Letters IEEE Electron Device Lett. Electron Device Letters, IEEE. 33(12):1750-1752 Dec, 2012
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Zinc oxide
Heterojunctions
Crystals
Substrates
Light emitting diodes
Fabrication
CuI
heterojunction
ZnO
Language
ISSN
0741-3106
1558-0563
Abstract
N-ZnO/P-CuI heterojunctions are fabricated by growing undoped n-type ZnO thin films on p-type $\gamma$-CuI (111) single-crystal substrates using radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The ZnO films are identified to be columnar structured with $c$-axis-preferred orientation by using X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscope. Measurements of the energy band alignment of ZnO/CuI interface by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy result in a valence band offset of 1.74 eV and a conduction band offset of $-$1.37 eV, meaning a type-II band alignment at the interface. A typical diodelike behavior of the current–voltage curve indicates its possible applications in optoelectronics with further development.