退火对反应磁控溅射制备ITO薄膜性能影响

采用铟锡合金靶(铟-锡，90-10)，通过直流反应磁控溅射在玻璃基片上制备出ITO薄膜，并在大气环境下高温退火处理。研究了退火温度对薄膜结构、光学和电学性能的影响。研究表明，随着退火温度升高薄膜的电学特性得到很大提高。     

退火温度对铟锡合金薄膜结构和性能的影响

采用铟锡合金作为溅射源,通过直流反应磁控溅射和在大气环境下高温退火,制备出了性能优良的ＩＴＯ薄膜,其太阳光谱透射率大于９０％。在放电参数、工作气体压力、反应气体流量、沉积时间等工艺参数相同的条件下,研究了退火温度对薄膜表面形貌、化学成分、晶体结构、光学和电学性能的影响。     

磁控溅射制备ITO薄膜光电性能的研究

采用直流磁控溅射方法在玻璃基底上制备了ITO薄膜.分别用分光光度计和四探针仪测试了所制备ITO薄膜在可见光区域内的透过率和电阻率,研究了溅射气压、氧氩流量比和溅射功率三个工艺参数对ITO薄膜光电性能的影响.研究结果表明,制备ITO薄膜的最佳工艺参数为:溅射气压0.6 Pa,氧氩流量比1:40,溅射功率108 W.采用此工艺参数制备的ITO薄膜在可见光区平均透过率为81.18％,薄膜电阻率为8.9197×10-3Ω·cm.     

ITO薄膜直流反应磁控溅射制备及性能研究

以90wt%In和10wt%Sn铟锡合金为靶材,采用直流磁控反应溅射法在玻璃基片制备ITO透明导电薄膜.用紫外-可见光分光光度计、四探针电阻仪、XRD和SEM分别测试了ITO薄膜的紫外-可见光透射光谱、方块电阻、薄膜的结构和表面形貌.研究了氧分压对ITO薄膜性能的影响.实验结果表明,ITO薄膜随着氧分压的增加,薄膜紫外透射光谱的吸收截止边带向短波长方向漂移.随着氧分压的增大,ITO薄膜的方块电阻增加,结晶程度变好,晶粒尺寸变大.     

ITO透明导电薄膜的制备方法及研究进展

概述了透明导电薄膜的分类及ITO薄膜的基本性质,综述了用于制备ITO薄膜的磁控溅射法、真空蒸发法、溶胶-凝胶法、喷雾热解法、化学气相沉积法,论述了不同制备方法的优缺点。最后,介绍了ITO薄膜的应用现状,并对ITO薄膜的发展趋势进行了展望。     

磁控溅射ITO薄膜的退火处理

采用直流磁控溅射方法在室温下玻璃基板上制备ITO(Indium tin oxide)薄膜,并在真空中不同温度(100℃~400℃)下退火处理.研究了退火对薄膜表面形貌、电光特性的影响.XRD测试发现薄膜在200℃退火后结晶,优选晶向为(222).随退火温度升高,方块电阻迅速下降,表面更加平整,薄膜在可见光范围平均透过率提高到85%.     

ITO透明导电薄膜的研究进展

介绍了ITO薄膜的基本特性和透明导电原理,综述了ITO薄膜主要的制备技术及其研究进展,并指出了不同制备方法的优缺点.还对ITO薄膜晶格常数畸变、载流子浓度上限和最佳掺杂量、红外反射率、光吸收边的移动等基础理论研究进展进行了归纳.今后,还需要在低温或室温ITO薄膜的制备、ITO薄膜的导电机理、纳米尺度ITO材料的特性等方面加强研究.     

直流磁控溅射功率对ITO薄膜光学性能的影响

本实验的ITO薄膜样品是利用直流磁控溅射技术在玻璃基片上沉积而成的。通过改变溅射功率,研究不同溅射功率对ITO薄膜光学性能的影响。经各实验测试后发现：在实验给定的功率区间内,ITO薄膜的厚度随着溅射功率的增加而增加,其可见光透过率则随之降低。     

磁控溅射制备增透ITO薄膜及其性能研究

用射频磁控溅射法在低温下制备了光电性能优良的ITO(In2O3:SnO2=1:1)薄膜。质量流量计调节氩气压强PAr为0.2～3.0Pa,氧流量fO2为0～10sccm,并详细探讨了溅射时PAr和fO2变化对ITO薄膜光学性能的影响。结果表明:fO2的改变引起薄膜中氧空位浓度变化而影响ITO薄膜折射率n;fO2对ITO靶材表面的溅射阀值和对Ar 散射而改变溅射速率。衬底表面粗糙度对ITO薄膜的折射率测量准确性有较大影响。PAr为0.8Pa,fO2为2.4sccm,薄膜厚度为241.5nm时,nmin=1.97,最大透过率为89.4%(包括玻璃基体),方阻为75.9?/□,电阻率为8.8×10-4?·cm。AFM分析表明薄膜表面针刺很少,表面平整(RMS=3.04nm)。     

氧气含量对ITO薄膜电学性能及其稳定性的影响

调节磁控溅射工艺中氧气的含量,在玻璃基片上制备了ITO薄膜。研究氧气含量对ITO薄膜光学、电学性能的影响,以及在高温、高温高湿、碱性环境及经时的电学性能的稳定性。结果表明,氧气含量的增加会降低沉积速率;氧气含量对ITO薄膜在可见光区内的透光率影响较小,但会引起峰值透光率蓝移;对电学性能及其稳定性影响较大,氧气含量在1%(体积分数)以内时,电学性能呈先降低后升高的变化,在0.4%(体积分数)时具有较低的电阻率,且在各种环境中具有较高的稳定性;氧气含量高于1%(体积分数),电学性能及其稳定性变差。     

Photoelectrochemical properties of nitrogen-doped indium tin oxide thin films prepared by reactive DC magnetron sputtering

Nitrogen-doped indium tin oxide (N-ITO) thin films are deposited on unheated ITO glass substrates in this study. The structural properties of the N-ITO thin films, determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman scattering, show that the indium nitride (InN) phase is liable to form in N-ITO films prepared in 20% N₂. A broad XRD peak around 2θ = 33° and Raman peak around 490 cm^− 1 are assigned to the InN phase, but no such peak is observed from the ITO film. Hence, the bandgap is narrowed by N-doping for absorbing light of longer wavelengths of ~ 500 nm. However, under illumination by ultraviolet, the N-ITO film prepared in 20% N₂ exhibits the least photocurrent response, which is less than one third that of the N-ITO catalyst that was doped in 16.4% N₂. This result is attributed mostly to the fact that the valence and conduction band potentials are not positioned properly between the newly formed InN and host ITO phases, rendering inefficient inter-semiconductor electron transfer. Therefore, higher N-doped samples exhibit a lower photocurrent response. Interestingly, the N-ITO film prepared in 16.4% N₂ exhibits the highest photocurrent density of about 165.5 μA/cm² at an applied bias of 1.2 V. This implies that the N-ITO films should be prepared at a low N₂ ratio to ensure a favorable photoelectrochemical activity.     

Structural characterization of tin doped indium oxide films prepared by magnetron sputtering

The structural characteristics of transparent and conducting thin films of tin doped indium oxide (ITO) have been studied by X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. The ITO films have been prepared by radio frequency sputtering employing a planar magnetron configuration. The effects of variation of substrate temperature and annealing have been studied. Films deposited at substrate temperatures up to 230° C show a marked 1 1 0 preferred orientation, whereas those deposited at 330° C are preferentially oriented in the 3 1 1 direction. Transmission electron micrographs of ITO films deposited on KCI crystals show the possible effects of strain on the structure, which are minimized to a great extent by annealing.     

Heat treatable indium tin oxide films deposited with high power pulse magnetron sputtering

In this study, indium tin oxide (ITO) films were prepared by high power pulse magnetron sputtering [D. J. Christie, F. Tomasel, W. D. Sproul, D. C. Carter, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, 22 (2004) 1415. [1]] without substrate heating. The ITO films were deposited from a ceramic target at a deposition rate of approx. 5.5 nm?m/min kW. Afterwards, the ITO films were covered with a siliconoxynitride film sputtered from a silicon alloy target in order to prevent oxidation of the ITO film during annealing at 650 °C for 10 min in air. The optical and electrical properties as well as the texture and morphology of these films were investigated before and after annealing. Mechanical durability of the annealed films was evaluated at different test conditions. The results were compared with state-of-the art ITO films which were obtained at optimized direct current magnetron sputtering conditions.     

Electrical and optical properties of indium tin oxide films prepared on plastic substrates by radio frequency magnetron sputtering

The influence of deposition power, thickness and oxygen gas flow rate on electrical and optical properties of indium tin oxide (ITO) films deposited on flexible, transparent substrates, such as polycarbonate (PC) and metallocene cyclo-olefin copolymers (mCOC), at room temperature was studied. The ITO films were prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering with the target made by sintering a mixture of 90 wt.% of indium oxide (In₂O₃) and 10 wt.% of tin oxide (SnO₂). The results show that (1) average transmission in the visible range (400-700 nm) was about 85%-90%, and (2) ITO films deposited on glass, PC and mCOC at 100 W without supplying additional oxygen gas had optimum resistivity of 6.35 × 10⁻⁴ Ω-cm, 5.86 × 10⁻⁴ Ω-cm and 6.72 × 10⁻⁴ Ω-cm, respectively. In terms of both electrical and optical properties of indium tin oxide films, the optimum thickness was observed to be 150-300 nm.     

Polycrystalline films of tungsten-doped indium oxide prepared by d.c. magnetron sputtering

Electrical and optical properties of polycrystalline films of W-doped indium oxide (IWO) were investigated. These films were deposited on glass substrate at 300 °C by d.c. magnetron sputtering using ceramic targets. The W-doping in the sputter-deposited indium oxide film effectively increased the carrier density and the mobility and decreased the resistivity. A minimum resistivity of 1.8 × 10^− 4 Ω cm was obtained at 3.3 at.% W-doping using the In₂O₃ ceramic targets containing 7.0 wt.% WO₃. The 2.2 at.% W-doped films obtained from the targets containing 5.0 wt.% WO₃, showed the high Hall mobility of 73 cm² V^− 1 s^− 1 and relatively low carrier density of 2.9 × 10²⁰ cm^− 3. Such properties resulted in novel characteristics of both low resistivity (3.0 × 10^− 4 Ω cm) and high transmittance in the near-infrared region.     

Ion bombardment-induced enhancement of the properties of indium tin oxide films prepared by plasma-assisted reactive magnetron sputtering

Research on tin doped indium oxide (ITO) has for many years been stimulated by the need to simultaneously optimize the electrical, optical and mechanical properties, and by new challenges related to the deposition of transparent conducting oxides on flexible plastic substrates. In the present work, we investigate the growth and optical, electrical, and mechanical (hardness, elastic modulus and stress) properties of ITO films deposited by plasma assisted reactive magnetron sputtering (PARMS) from an indium-tin alloy target. PARMS achieves an effective control of bombardment by reactive species (e.g., O₂⁺, O⁺) on the surface of the growing film by varying the bias voltage, V_B, induced by a radiofrequency power applied to the substrate. Stress-free films possessing high transparency (> 80% — film on glass) and low resistivity (4 × 10^− 4 Ω cm) can be deposited by PARMS under conditions of intense ion bombardment (≤ 600 eV).     

Thermochromic properties of vanadium oxide films prepared by dc reactive magnetron sputtering

A transparent vanadium oxide film has been one of the most studied electrochromic (EC) and Thermochromic (TC) materials. Vanadium oxide films were deposited at different substrate temperatures up to 400 °C and different ratios of the oxygen partial pressure (P_O2). SEM, AFM and X-ray diffraction's results show detail structure data of the films. IR mode assignments of the films measured by IR reflection-absorbance in NGIA (near grazing incidence angle) are given. It is found that the film has V₂O₅ and VO₂ combined structures. The films exhibit clear changes in transmittance when the environment temperature (T_e) is varied, especially in the 3600-4000 cm^− 1 range. Applying a T_e that is higher than a critical temperature (T_c) to the samples, the as-RT (room temperature) deposited film with 9% P_O2 has a transmittance variation of 30%, but the films that were deposited on a heated substrate of 400 °C have little variation. There is tendency of bigger variation in transmittance for the sample deposited at a larger P_O2, when it is applied by 200 °C T_e.     

Amorphous indium tungsten oxide films prepared by DC magnetron sputtering

Indium-tungsten-oxide (IWO) films were prepared by dc magnetron sputtering at ambient substrate temperature (T_s). Characteristics of the films were compared with those of In₂O₃–SnO₂ (ITO) thin films prepared under the same condition. The sputter-deposited IWO films have entirely amorphous structure with an average transmittance of over 85% in the visible range and exhibit a minimum resistivity of 3.2 × 10^–4cm at W content [W/(In + W)] of 0.57 at.%. An in-situ heating X-ray diffraction measurement have shown that the crystallization temperature of IWO films is higher than those of ITO films (150–160C) and increases with increasing W content. This enabled a smooth amorphous surface of IWO films as compared with a rough surface of partially crystallized ITO films as revealed by an atomic force microscopy. IWO films are useful for transparent electrode of organic light emitting diode and polymer LCDs because of the low resistivity, high transparency and smooth surface obtainable by the conventional dc magnetron sputtering at room temperature.