Preparation of ATO Thin Films from SPS-Derived Large Size ATO Ceramic Targets by PVD Methods

2014 ◽  
Vol 783-786 ◽  
pp. 1973-1978
Author(s):  
Fei Chen ◽  
Jun Yan Wu ◽  
Qiang Shen ◽  
Julie M. Schoenung ◽  
Lian Meng Zhang

Good crystalline of ATO thin films is necessary to improve the electrical and optical properties. In this paper, ATO thin films were fabricated using PLD method at high temperature of 550 °C, and the effect of laser energy density on the microstructure, electrical property and optical property of the ATO films is discussed. The results suggest that ATO films show good crystalline when deposited at high temperature of 550 °C. Both the electrical and optical properties have been enhanced with the increasing of laser energy density. When the laser energy density is 5.4 J/cm2, the lowest resistivity of ATO thin film is obtained with the value of 6.52×10-4 Ω·cm and the average optical transmittances is 82.0 %.

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (20) ◽  
pp. 2741-2749 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. ZHOU ◽  
L. LI ◽  
L. Y. RONG ◽  
B. X. ZHAO ◽  
Y. M. CHEN ◽  
...  

High transparency and conductivity of transparent conducting oxide thin film are very important for improving the efficiency of solar cells. ZnO thin film is a better candidate for transparent conductive layer of solar cell. N-type ZnO thin films were prepared by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering on glass substrates. ZnO thin films underwent annealing treatment after deposition. The influence of the sputtering power on the surface morphology, the electrical and optical properties were studied by AFM, XRD, UV2450 and HMS-3000. The experimental results indicate that the crystal quality of ZnO thin film is improved and all films show higher c-axis orientation with increasing sputtering power from 50 to 125 W. The average transparency of ZnO thin films is higher than 90% in the range of 400–900 nm between the sputtering power of 50–100 W. After the rapid thermal annealing at 550°C for 300 s under N2 ambient, the minimum resistivity reach to 10-2Ω⋅ cm .


2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1971-1977
Author(s):  
Jihye Kang ◽  
Dongsu Park ◽  
Donghun Lee ◽  
Masao Kamiko ◽  
Sung-Jin Kim ◽  
...  

In this research, alternative deposition process of ZnO-based thin films have been studied for transparent conducting oxide (TCO) application. To improve the electrical and optical properties of transparent oxide thin films, alternatively stacked Al-doped ZnO and In-doped ZnO thin films were investigated. Multilayer structure of alternative 6 layers of thin films were prepared in this research. Especially, Aluminum and Indium were chosen as dopant materials. Thin films of Al-doped ZnO (AZO) and In-doped ZnO (IZO) were alternatively deposited by spin coating with sol-gel method. After deposition of multilayered thin films, multi steps of furnace (F), rapid thermal annealing (R) and CO2 laser annealing (L) processes were carried out and investigated thin film properties by dependence of post-annealing sequence and thin film structures. The electrical and optical properties of thin films were investigated by 4-point probe and UV-vis spectroscopy and its shows the greatest sheet resistance value of 0.59 kΩ/sq. from AZO/IZO multilayered structure and upper 85% of transmittance. The structural property and surface morphology were measured by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). The Al- and In-doped ZnO thin film shows the highest intensity value at (002) peak of AZO/IZO multilayer structure which was performed FRL process.


1994 ◽  
Vol 369 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Zhang ◽  
H. Deng ◽  
J. Varon ◽  
B. Abeles ◽  
Y. Yang ◽  
...  

AbstractThin film SrCo0.8Fe0.2O3-δ were made by pulse laser deposition. The electrical conductivity is thermally activated in the temperature 25-500 °C with an activation energy of 0.17-0.19 eV and is temperature independant from 500-800 °C. The optical absorption shows characteristic features which are interpreted qualitatively in terms of a simple band structure diagram.


2005 ◽  
Vol 891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kousik Samanta ◽  
Pijush Bhattacharya ◽  
Ram S. Katiyar ◽  
W. Iwamoto ◽  
R. R. Urbano ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThin films of Co substituted ZnO and ZnCo2O4 were deposited on c-axis (0001) oriented Al2O3 substrates using pulsed laser deposition. The XRD results showed all the films were highly (002) oriented with a less intense peak of (311) for ZnCo2O4 thin film. Micro-Raman spectra of ceramic targets showed the modes related to wurtzite ZnO and spinel ZnCo2O4 structures. In thin films of Zn1−xCoxO no modes corresponding to ZnCo2O4 were detected. The intensity of E1(LO) and multiphonon peak at 584 and 540 cm−1 respectively, increased with increase in Co substitution. The optical absorption of the films showed that the band gap decreased with increase of Co concentrations at room temperature along with the sub-bandgap absorptions due to d-d transitions of Co2+. Similar sub-bandgap d-d transition was also observed in the absorption spectra ZnCo2O4 thin films. The highest saturated magnetization (0.2μB/Co) was obtained for 5%Co substituted ZnO.


2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (15) ◽  
pp. 152905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Gao ◽  
Ravindranath Viswan ◽  
Xiao Tang ◽  
Chung Ming Leung ◽  
Jiefang Li ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Young Sung ◽  
Woong-Je Sung ◽  
Yong-Il Lee ◽  
Chun-Il Park ◽  
Woo-Boem Choi ◽  
...  

Abstract:GaN thin films on sapphire were grown by RF magnetron sputtering with ZnO buffer layer. The tremendous mismatch between the lattices of GaN and sapphire can be partly overcome by the use of thin buffer layer of ZnO. The dependence of GaN film quality on ZnO buffer layer was investigated by X-ray diffraction(XRD). The properties of the sputtered GaN are strongly dependent on ZnO buffer layer thickness. The optimum thickness of ZnO buffer layer is around 30nm. Using XRD analysis, we have found the optimal substrate temperature which can grow high quality GaN thin film. In addition, the effect of excimer laser annealing(ELA) on structural and electrical properties of GaN thin films was investigated. The surface roughness and images according to the laser energy density were investigated by atomic force microscopy(AFM) and it was confirmed that the crystallization was improved by increasing laser energy density.


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