... 1Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 447-1 Wolgye-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 139-701, South Korea 2Department of Mathematics and Information, Kyungwon Campus, Gachon University, ... inhomogeneities and Fermi-level pinning on Schottky contact properties has been known to be minimal, and the barrier height depends mostly on the metal work function without strong Fermi-level pinning for ... work-function-dependent barrier height of Ni contacts with metal-embedded nanoparticles to 4H-SiC Min-Seok Kang†1, Jung-Joon Ahn†1, Kyoung-Sook Moon†2, and Sang-Mo Koo*†1 1Department...