Electrical characterisation of stearic acid/eicosylamine alternate layer Langmuir-Blodgett films incorporating US nanoparticles

CAPAN, R., RAY, A. K. and HASSAN, A. K. (2007). Electrical characterisation of stearic acid/eicosylamine alternate layer Langmuir-Blodgett films incorporating US nanoparticles. Thin solid films, 515 (7-8), 3956-3961.

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Abstract

Electrical properties of stearic acid/cicosylamine alternate layer Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) film structure incorporating cadmium sulphide (CdS) nanoparticles are studied in the temperature range 300-400 K. The room temperature ohmic conductivity is found to be 3.87 x 10-(13) Sm-1 for the as deposited LB film and 7.75 x 10(-12) Sm-1 for the LB film containing US nanoparticles. At a relatively high field the electrode-limited Schottky effect is found to be responsible for conduction mechanism. The potential barrier height is calculated at several temperatures for the metal/LB film/metal system and the average temperature coefficient is found to be 0.0048 eV K-1 for the untreated LB film and 0.005 eV K-1 for the CdS containing LB film. Activation energies are found to be 0.46 eV and 0.19 eV for the untreated LB film and the LB film with CdS natioparticles, respectively. The alternating current conductance for both samples shows typical power law dependence with a value of similar to 0.9 for the frequency dependence exponent. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Advanced Coatings and Composites Research Centre > Electronic Materials and Sensors Research Group
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2006.10.107
Page Range: 3956-3961
Depositing User: Helen Garner
Date Deposited: 19 May 2010 13:55
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 21:15
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1974

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