On electric conduction of amorphous silicon carbonitride derived from a polymeric precursor

Yaohan Chen, Fuqian Yang, Linan An

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Abstract

A long-existing problem that the conductivity of amorphous silicon carbonitrides derived from polymeric precursor increases significantly with pyrolysis temperature is investigated. We show that the conductivity exhibited an Arrhenius dependence on pyrolysis temperature, with the activation energy of ∼3.41 eV. Structural analysis using Raman spectroscopy reveals that the free carbon within the material undergoes a sp3-to-sp2 transition as pyrolysis temperature increases, with the activation energy of ∼3.6 eV. We conclude that the pyrolysis-temperature induced increase in the conductivity is mainly due to the increase in the conductivity of the free carbon. A simple model is proposed to correlate the two.

Original languageEnglish
Article number231902
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume102
Issue number23
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 10 2013

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Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy of USA (DE-FE0007004).

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  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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