The electrical, optical, and metal-semiconductor contact properties o
f the polyaniline prepared by emulsionpolymerization have been investigated to obtain an organic semiconductor material. The obtained resultssuggest that the polyaniline (PANI) studied is an organic semiconductor material with optical band gap (
Eg= 2.21 eV) and room electrical conductivity (
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25 = 3.12 × 10
-2 S/cm) values. A Schottky diode withcon
figuration Ag/PANI/n-Si was
fabricated. The ideality
factor and barrier height o
f Ag/PANI/n-Si diode atroom temperature were
found to be 4.59 and 0.38 eV, respectively. The obtained diode parameters changewith temperature. The Richardson constant
A* value
for the Ag/PANI/n-Si diode was
found to be 3.81 ×10
-4 A/cm
2·K. The Ag/PANI/n-Si diode is a metal-insulator-semiconductor-type device. The standarddeviation, which is a measure o
f the barrier homogeneity, was
found to be 0.14, indicating the presence o
finter
face inhomogeneities. It can be concluded that the polyaniline prepared by emulsion polymerization isan organic semiconductor and Ag/PANI/n-Si con
figuration shows a Schottky contact.