On the calculation of Schottky contact resistivity

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of self-consistent modeling of transport and electrostatics in accurately calculating Schottky contact resistivity, proposing an explicit numerical method to enhance calculation efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a self-consistent approach and an explicit numerical method for more accurate and efficient Schottky contact resistivity calculations.

Findings

Ignoring self-consistency underestimates resistivity

Self-consistent modeling significantly improves accuracy

Proposed method enhances computational efficiency

Abstract

This numerical study examines the importance of self-consistently accounting for transport and electrostatics in the calculaiton of semiconductor/metal Schottky contact resistivity. It is shown that ignoring such self-consistency results in significant under-estimation of the contact resistivity. An explicit numerical method has also been proposed to efficiently improve contact resistivity calculations.