Studies of Ti- and Ni-germanide Schottky contacts on n-Ge(1Â 0Â 0) substrates

In this study, we investigated fabrication and characteristics of germanides Schottky contacts on germanium. Ti- and Ni-germanides were fabricated on n-Ge(1 0 0) substrates by sputtering metal Ti or Ni on Ge followed by a furnace annealing. The influence of annealing temperature on the electrical properties of Ti- and Ni-germanide on n-Ge(1 0 0) substrates was investigated. The low temperature ∼300 °C annealing helped to obtain the optimized Schottky contact characteristics in both Ti-germanide/Ge and Ni-germanide/Ge substrates contacts. The well-behaved Ti-germanides/n-Ge Schottky contact with 0.34 eV barrier height was obtained by using a 300 °C annealing process.