Abstract
DC photocurrent gain properties of planar metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) optical sensor structures on have been investigated experimentally. The test structure has two co-planar Mo/n-Si Schottky-barrier junctions on silicon of resistivity 9-12 Omega-cm and the electrode separation is 20 mum. The current-voltage (I-V) characteristics measurements under illumination in visible range showed a rapid increase in photocurrent at higher biases examined. From the temperature, the dependence of I-V characteristics and noise measurements, such photocurrent increase was ascribes to avalanche multiplication of carriers photogenerated in the Schottky junction reversed-biased. From low-frequency (10-50 kHz) signal measurements, it was found that multiplication factor larger than 100 at 10 kHz and 30 at 50 kHz was achieved.
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