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    Citation - WoS: 3
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    Fabrication of Cdsexte1-X Thin Films by Sequential Growth Using Double Sources
    (Elsevier, 2021) Demir, M.; Gullu, H. H.; Terlemezoglu, M.; Parlak, M.
    CdSexTe(1-x) (CST) ternary thin films were fabricated by stacking thermally evaporated CdSe and electron beam evaporated CdTe layers. The final structure was achieved in a stoichiometric form of approximately Cd:Se:Te = 50:25:25. The post-annealing processes at 300, 400, and 450 degrees C were applied to trigger the compound formation of CST thin films. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) profiles revealed that CdTe and CdSe have major peaks at 23.9 degrees and 25.5 degrees corresponds to (111) direction in cubic zinc-blend structure. Raman modes of CdTe were observed at 140 and 168 cm(-1), while Raman modes of CdSe films were detected at 208 and 417 cm(-1). The post-annealing process was found to be an effective method in order to combine both diffraction peaks and the vibrational modes of CdTe and CdSe, consequently to form CST ternary alloy. Transmission spectroscopy analysis revealed that CST films have direct band gap value of 1.6 eV.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
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    Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Transmittance Spectra of Zn0.5in0.5< (zis) Thin Films
    (Springer, 2019) Isik, M.; Gullu, H. H.; Delice, S.; Gasanly, N. M.; Parlak, M.
    Temperature-dependent transmission experiments of ZnInSe thin films deposited by thermal evaporation method were performed in the spectral range of 550-950nm and in temperature range of 10-300K. Transmission spectra shifted towards higher wavelengths (lower energies) with increasing temperature. Transmission data were analyzed using Tauc relation and derivative spectroscopy. Analysis with Tauc relation was resulted in three different energy levels for the room temperature band gap values of material as 1.594, 1.735 and 1.830eV. The spectrum of first wavelength derivative of transmittance exhibited two maxima positions at 1.632 and 1.814eV and one minima around 1.741eV. The determined energies from both methods were in good agreement with each other. The presence of three band gap energy levels were associated to valence band splitting due to crystal-field and spin-orbit splitting. Temperature dependence of the band gap energies were also analyzed using Varshni relation and gap energy value at absolute zero and the rate of change of gap energy with temperature were determined.
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    Citation - WoS: 22
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    Synthesis and Temperature-Tuned Band Gap Characteristics of Magnetron Sputtered Znte Thin Films
    (Elsevier, 2020) Isik, M.; Gullu, H. H.; Parlak, M.; Gasanly, N. M.
    Zinc telluride (ZnTe) is one of the attractive semiconducting compounds used in various optoelectronic devices. The usage of ZnTe in optoelectronic applications directs researchers to search its optical characteristics in great detail. For this purpose, structural and optical properties of magnetron sputtered ZnTe thin films were studied by means of x-ray diffraction and transmission spectroscopy measurements. Structural analyses indicated that ZnTe thin films having cubic crystalline structure were successfully grown on soda-lime glass substrates. Transmittance spectra in the 400-1000 nm were recorded in between 10 and 300 K temperature region. The analyses of absorption coefficient spectra resulted in band gap energies decreasing from around 2.31 (10 K) to 2.26 eV (300 K). Temperature dependency of gap energy was studied by Varshni and O'Donnell-Chen relations to determine various optical parameters like absolute zero temperature band gap energy, change of gap energy with temperature, phonon energy.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
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    Electrical Characterization of Zninse2 Thin-Film Heterojunction
    (Springer, 2019) Gullu, H. H.; Parlak, M.
    ZnInSe2/Cu0.5Ag0.5InSe2 diode structures have been fabricated by thermal evaporation of stacked layers on indium tin oxide-coated glass substrates. Temperature-dependent dark current-voltage measurements were carried out to extract the diode parameters and to determine the dominant conduction mechanisms in the forward- and reverse-bias regions. The heterostructure showed three order of magnitude rectifying behavior with a barrier height of 0.72 eV and ideality factor of 2.16 at room temperature. In the high forward-bias region, the series and shunt resistances were calculated with the help of parasitic resistance relations, yielding room-temperature values of 9.54 x 10(2) Omega cm(2) and 1.23 x 10(3) Omega cm(2), respectively. According to the analysis of the current flow in the forward-bias region, abnormal thermionic emission due to the variation of the ideality factor with temperature and space-charge-limited current processes were determined to be the dominant conduction mechanisms in this heterostructure. In the reverse-bias region, the tunneling mechanism was found to be effective in the leakage current flow with trap density of 10(6) cm(-3). Spectral photocurrent measurements were carried out to investigate the spectral working range of the device structure. The main photocurrent peaks observed in the spectrum corresponded to the band-edge values of the active thin-film layers.
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    Citation - WoS: 10
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    Structural and Temperature-Tuned Bandgap Characteristics of Thermally Evaporated β-in2< Thin Films
    (Springer, 2021) Surucu, O.; Isik, M.; Terlemezoglu, M.; Gasanly, N. M.; Parlak, M.
    In2S3 is one of the attractive compounds taking remarkable interest in optoelectronic device applications. The present study reports the structural and optical characteristics of thermally evaporated beta-In2S3 thin films. The crystalline structure of the thin films was found as cubic taking into account the observed diffraction peaks in the X-ray diffraction pattern. The atomic compositional ratio of constituent elements was obtained as consistent with chemical formula of In2S3. Three peaks around 275, 309 and 369 cm(-1) were observed in the Raman spectrum. Temperature-tuned bandgap energy characteristics of the In2S3 thin films were revealed from the investigation of transmittance spectra obtained at various temperatures between 10 and 300 K. The analyses of the transmittance spectra indicated that direct bandgap energy of the In2S3 thin films decreases from 2.40 eV (at 10 K) to 2.37 eV (at 300 K) with the increase of measurement temperature. The bandgap energy vs. temperature relation was investigated by means of Varshni optical model. The fitting of the experimental data under the light of theoretical expression revealed the absolute zero bandgap energy, the rate of change of bandgap energy and Debye temperature.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
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    Temperature -Dependent Optical and Electrical Characterization of Cu-Ga Thin Films and Their Diode Characteristics on N-Si
    (Elsevier Gmbh, 2020) Gullu, H. H.; Isik, M.; Gasanly, N. M.; Parlak, M.
    In this paper, optical and electrical properties of thermally deposited Cu-Ga-S thin films were investigated using temperature-dependent optical transmission and electrical conductivity measurements. The analysis of the transmission spectra resulted in formation of three direct optical transitions due to the possible valence band splitting in the structure. The band gap values were calculated by means of absorption coefficient and incident photon energy was found in decreasing behavior as the temperature rises. The measured current-voltage values were used to extract the conductivity values which stand in the range of 1.73-2.62 (x104 O-1 cm-1) depending on the ambient temperature. These dark conductivity values were modeled by thermionic emission mechanism. The conductivity activation energies in the structures were calculated as 6.4, 14.5 and 40.7 meV according to the effects of grain boundary potentials. In addition, the films deposited on n-Si wafer showed a diode characteristic under the applied bias voltage between indium (In) front and silver (Ag) back contacts. From current-voltage measurements across the Si-based diode, about four orders of magnitude rectification was observed and the results were analyzed to determine the main diode parameters at dark and room temperature conditions.
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    Citation - WoS: 15
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    Investigation of Band Gap Energy Versus Temperature for Sns 2 Thin Films Grown by Rf-Magnetron Sputtering
    (Elsevier, 2020) Isik, M.; Gullu, H. H.; Terlemezoglu, M.; Surucu, O. Bayrakli; Parlak, M.; Gasanly, N. M.
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    Citation - WoS: 12
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    Investigation of electrical characteristics of Ag/ZnO/Si sandwich structure
    (Springer, 2019) Gullu, H. H.; Surucu, O. Bayrakli; Terlemezoglu, M.; Yildiz, D. E.; Parlak, M.
    In this study, temperature-dependent current-voltage (I-V), frequency-dependent capacitance-voltage (C-V) and conductance-voltage (G/omega-V) measurements are carried out for the electrical characterization of a zinc oxide (ZnO) thin film-based diode. The sandwich structure in the form of Ag/ZnO/Si/Al is investigated at temperatures between 220 and 360 K and in the frequency region of 1 kHz-1 MHz. ZnO thin film layer is deposited on a p-Si wafer substrate as a transparent conductive oxide layer by taking into consideration possible electronic applications with intrinsic attractive material properties. At each temperature step, the I-V curves showed about two orders of magnitude rectifying behavior and, according to the Schottky diode relation, the saturation current, zero-bias barrier height and ideality factor were extracted as a function of the temperature. In the case of non-ideal diode characteristics due to the inhomogeneties in the diode as observed from the characteristics of the calculated parameters, effective barrier height values are evaluated. In addition, based on the existence of the interface layer, density of interface states in the band gap region and parasitic resistances were determined by the capacitance measurements.
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    Citation - WoS: 45
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    Temperature-Dependent Optical Characteristics of Sputtered Nio Thin Films
    (Springer Heidelberg, 2022) Terlemezoglu, M.; Surucu, O.; Isik, M.; Gasanly, N. M.; Parlak, M.
    In this work, nickel oxide thin films were deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering technique. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis methods were applied to reveal the structural and morphological properties of sputtered thin films. The XRD pattern of films confirmed the presence of the cubic phase of nickel oxide with the preferential orientation of (200) direction. The surface morphology of thin films was observed as almost uniform and smooth. Optical aspects of sputtered film were studied by employing the room temperature Raman and temperature-dependent transmittance spectroscopy techniques in the range of 10-300 K. Tauc relation and derivative spectroscopy techniques were applied to obtain the band gap energy of the films. In addition, the relation between the band gap energy and the temperature was investigated in detail considering the Varshni optical model. The absolute zero band gap energy, rate of change of band gap energy, and Debye temperature were obtained as 3.57 eV, - 2.77 x 10(-4) eV/K and 393 K, respectively.
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    Citation - WoS: 29
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    Frequency Effect on Electrical and Dielectric Characteristics of Hfo2-interlayered Si-Based Schottky Barrier Diode
    (Springer, 2020) Gullu, H. H.; Yildiz, D. E.; Surucu, O.; Parlak, M.
    This study reveals the electrical properties of In/HfO2/n-Si structure with atomic layer-deposited interfacial oxide layer, HfO2 thin film between In top metal contact and monocrystalline Si wafer substrate. From the dark current-voltage measurements, the diode structure showed good rectifying behavior and low saturation current of about two order of magnitude and 1.2 x 10(- 9) A, respectively. According to the conventional thermionic emission model, zero-bias barrier height and ideality factor were calculated from the forward bias current-voltage curve at room temperature under dark conditions as 0.79 eV and 4.22 eV, respectively. In order to get detailed information about density of interface states and series resistance of this structure, capacitance-voltage and conductance-voltage measurements in the frequency range of 10-1000 kHz were performed. As a result, a decreasing capacitance profile with increasing frequency was obtained. In addition, peak-like behavior in the capacitance profiles was observed and these were found to be the indication of density of states. Further analysis was performed on the evaluation of density of interface states values and these values were calculated by using two different methods: Hill-Coleman and high-low frequency capacitance. These profiles were also analyzed by eliminating the effect of series resistance values on the measured capacitance and conductance; then the values of corrected capacitance and conductance as a function of applied voltage were discussed. Based on these analyses on the capacitive characteristics of the diode, dielectric constant, dielectric loss, loss tangent, electrical conductivity, and the real and imaginary part of electric modulus were investigated for complete understanding on the diode characteristics.