Abstract
Transparent conductive 5 at.% Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films are deposited on a glass substrate by an asymmetrical bipolar-pulsed DC magnetron sputtering at various substrate temperatures. All the GZO films have nanocrystalline structure and compact surface morphology. A highly c-axis oriented GZO film was grown perpendicular to the substrate at the 200C. The measured work function of GZO film deposited at 200°C shows slightly lower value of 4.37 eV than a commercial ITO film of 4.6 eV. The GZO film showed the lowest sheet resistance of 35 Ω/□, a carrier concentration of 1.2 ×1021 cm-3, a mobility of 9.9 cm2/Vs, and high optical transmittance of over 85% in the visible range. It indicates that the GZO films at 200°C can be promising as an alternative to ITO thin film for transparent electrode applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 101-105 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Functional Materials Letters |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2010 |
Keywords
- Ga-doped ZnO (GZO)
- optical property
- sputtering
- transparent conductive oxide