TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of metal/silicon semiconductor contact engineering for enhanced output current in micro-sized microbial fuel cells
AU - Mink, Justine E.
AU - Rojas, Jhonathan Prieto
AU - Rader, Kelly
AU - Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): CRG-1-2012-HUS-008
Acknowledgements: We thank Prof. Bruce Logan at Penn State University for useful discussion, Professor Gary Amy at KAUST for laboratory use at the Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Daniah Alsaady, Mariyam Mahmoud, and Shaiza Sinha from the KAUST schools for aid in characterization measurements and assembly, and Muhannad Abu-Ghdaib from KAUST WDRC for photographs. This work has been made possible with the OCRF Competitive Research Grant (CRG-1-2012-HUS-008) and GRP Collaborative Fellow (GRP-CF-2011-03-S) grant for J.E.M.
PY - 2013/11/25
Y1 - 2013/11/25
N2 - We show that contact engineering plays an important role to extract the maximum performance from energy harvesters like microbial fuel cells (MFCs). We experimented with Schottky and Ohmic methods of fabricating contact areas on silicon in an MFC contact material study. We utilized the industry standard contact material, aluminum, as well as a metal, whose silicide has recently been recognized for its improved performance in smallest scale integration requirements, cobalt. Our study shows that improvements in contact engineering are not only important for device engineering but also for microsystems. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
AB - We show that contact engineering plays an important role to extract the maximum performance from energy harvesters like microbial fuel cells (MFCs). We experimented with Schottky and Ohmic methods of fabricating contact areas on silicon in an MFC contact material study. We utilized the industry standard contact material, aluminum, as well as a metal, whose silicide has recently been recognized for its improved performance in smallest scale integration requirements, cobalt. Our study shows that improvements in contact engineering are not only important for device engineering but also for microsystems. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563103
UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/pssa.201330233
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899409907&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/pssa.201330233
DO - 10.1002/pssa.201330233
M3 - Article
SN - 1862-6300
VL - 211
SP - 551
EP - 554
JO - Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
JF - Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
IS - 3
ER -