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.
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Article
Publication Date
6-10-2013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4809825
Funding Information
This work was financially supported by National Energy Technology Laboratory, Department of Energy of USA (DE-FE0007004).
Repository Citation
Chen, Yaohan; Yang, Fuqian; and An, Linan, "On Electric Conduction of Amorphous Silicon Carbonitride Derived from a Polymeric Precursor" (2013). Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications. 11.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cme_facpub/11
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Published in Applied Physics Letters, v. 102, no. 23, article 231902, p. 1-4.
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The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, v. 102, article 231902, p. 1-4 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4809825.