Les composés III-N, et le Nitrure de Gallium (GaN) en particulier, sont devenus des matériaux semi conducteurs importants pour l’ensemble de l’humanité. Depuis la fin des années 1990, ils ont permis le développement de composants électroluminescents fiables, diodes LED et diodes laser, qui constituent une solution de remplacement à rendement énergétique amélioré par rapport aux composants à incandescence. Il est possible qu’ils jouent aussi un rôle dans les nouvelles générations de composants pour l’électronique de puissance. Lors du développement des composants, des recherches expérimentales permettent de trouver assez rapidement des solutions pour réaliser les briques technologiques indispensables, mais le temps manque pour comprendre les mécanismes physiques mis en jeu. Nos travaux ont eu pour objectif d’approfondir la compréhension de l’influence de la structure physico-chimique sur les propriétés électriques des contacts ohmiques et Schottky sur GaN de type N. / Group III nitride semiconductor materials (III-N), and especially gallium nitride (GaN), are now key materials for the whole human kind. Since years 1990, reliable and energy-efficient light emitting devices have been developed based on III-N compounds providing higher efficiency replacement solutions to incandescent bulbs. The same III-N materials may also provide higher performance device solutions for power electronics, allowing multi-functional on-chip integration. During the industrial development of devices, experimental work is focused on finding rapidly good enough solutions for each technology brick, and on the eventual integration of the bricks into a complete device processing flow. Very often, little time and effort can be devoted to the understanding of the underlying physical and chemical processes. The aim of this work has been to study the influence of the physical and chemical material structures on the electrical properties of metal - GaN Ohmic and Schottky contacts.

This Diploma thesis deals with properties of CdTe detectors. This material is ranked among optical sensitive group. This thesis can be thematically divided into two basic parts. The first part describes properties of both elements and the chemical adduct. Selected properties show perfections of the material, which are specializing it to optical area of application. The end of this part contains description of contact metal-semiconductor. This problem is important to comprehension principle the material contact. In second part there were making many measurements. For more accurately compare were first measurements doing without light and then with light. During making measurement was changed wave length and temperature of sample. Key factors were Volt-Ampere characteristics and resistance result with changed temperature and wave length impact to the sample. For better accuracy measurements were done many times. All of data from measurement were cultivate by PC Easyplot programme.