Some electrical properties of polyaniline/p-Si/Al structure at 300 K and 77 K temperatures

The electrical characterization of the PANI/p-Si/Al structure has been investigated by using current-voltage (I-V), capacitance-voltage (C-V) and capacitance-frequency (C-f) characteristics. Especially, some characteristics have been compared with the 300 K temperature characteristics at liquid nitrogen temperature. The characteristic parameters of the structure such as barrier height, ideality factor and series resistance have been determined from the current-voltage measurements. According to the C-V characteristics, the higher values of capacitance at low frequencies and high temperature have been attributed to the excess capacitance resulting from the interface states in equilibrium with the p-Si, which can follow the a.c. signal.