反应磁控溅射法制备F掺杂ZnO(FZO)薄膜的结构和透明导电性能

以Zn/ZnO/ZnF2混合物为靶材,在衬底温度(Ts)为150℃和300℃、溅射气氛为Ar+O2和Ar+H2下反应溅射制备F掺杂ZnO(FZO)薄膜,研究气体流量、Ts以及溅射气氛对薄膜结构及透明导电性能的影响.结果表明:对于Ar+O2下制备的FZO薄膜,Ts=300℃时有利于制备出具有(002)择优取向、结晶度高、压应力低且透明导电性能较好的薄膜.对于Ar+H2下制备的薄膜,Ts增大到300℃虽然提高了薄膜结晶度和透光性,降低了压应力,但薄膜厚度明显降低,薄膜导电性能变差.比较两种气氛下制备的FZO薄膜,发现Ar+H2下制备的薄膜可在150℃和0.8～3.2 mL·min-1的H2流量范围内得到更好的透明导电性能(电阻率为3.5×10-3Ω·cm,可见光平均透光率为87％).讨论Ar+H2气氛时H等离子的刻蚀作用与H掺杂、A r+O 2气氛时O离子的轰击作用与薄膜氧缺陷的变化、Ts升高时沉积原子反应活性与迁移能力增强以及Eg与载流子浓度的关系.     

溅射功率对Mo掺杂ZnO(MZO)透明导电薄膜的影响

Mo原子具有较高的价态(+6),每个掺杂的Mo原子可以向ZnO晶体贡献4个自由电子,因此,Mo原子被认为是提高ZnO薄膜导电性的潜在掺杂剂.采用射频磁控溅射制备不同溅射功率下的MZO透明导电薄膜,研究溅射功率对MZ O薄膜表面形貌、微观结构、组织以及光电性能的影响.实验结果表明,不同功率制备的MZO薄膜样品都沿(002...     

Development of transparent and conductive ZnO films by spray pyrolysis

Indium-doped zinc oxide (IZO) films were deposited on Corning 7059 substrates by the spray pyrolysis technique. To achieve higher electrical conductivity both the zinc acetate concentration and indium concentration in the solution were varied. The films were characterized for their structural and electrical properties. Film stability in H₂ plasma was also checked for possible use in amorphous and microcrystalline silicon related fields. It was observed that the films can be sustained in a hydrogen plasma, and hence IZO films of high conductivity can be used for the development of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon solar cells.     

Transparent conductive ZnO:B films deposited by magnetron sputtering

This paper focuses on the preparation of boron doped ZnO (ZnO:B) films prepared by nonreactive mid-frequency magnetron sputtering from ceramic target with 2 wt.% doping source. Adjusting power density, ZnO:B film with low resistivity (1.54 × 10^− 3 Ω cm) and high transparency (average transparency from 400 to 1100 nm over 85%) was obtained. Different deposition conditions were introduced as substrate fixed in the target center and hydrogen mediation. Hall mobility increased from 11 to above 26 cm²/V·s, while carrier concentration maintained almost the same, leading to low resistivity of 6.45 × 10^− 4 Ω cm. Transmission spectra of ZnO:B films grown at various growth conditions were determined using a UV-visible-NIR spectrophotometer. An obvious blue-shift of absorption edge was obtained while transmittances between 600 nm and 1100 nm remained almost the same. Optical band baps extracted from transmission spectra showed irregular enhancement due to the Burstein-Moss effect and band gap renormalization. Photoluminescence spectra also showed a gradual increase at UV emission peak due to free exciton transition near band gap. We contributed this enhancement in both optical band gap and UV photoluminescence emission to the lattice structure quality melioration.     

Mn-doped ZnO transparent conducting films deposited by DC magnetron sputtering

Mn-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Mn) thin films with low resistivity and relatively high transparency were firstly prepared on glass substrate by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering at room temperature. Influence of film thickness on the properties of ZnO:Mn films was investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) show that all the deposited films are polycrystalline with a hexagonal structure and have a preferred orientation along the c-axis perpendicular to the substrate. As the thickness increases from 144 to 479 nm, the crystallite size increases while the electrical resistivity decreases. However, as the thickness increases from 479 to 783 nm, the crystallite size decreases and the electrical resistivity increases. When film thickness is 479 nm, the deposited films have the lowest resistivity of 2.1 × 10^− 4 Ω cm and a relatively high transmittance of above 84% in the visible range.     

磁控溅射低温制备ZnO:Al透明导电薄膜的正交设计

采用锌铝(2%(质量分数))合金靶,保持真空腔在50℃低温下,结合正交试验表,运用直流反应磁控溅射法制得ZnO∶Al(ZAO)薄膜.通过分光光度计、半导体霍尔效应测试等手段对薄膜各项性能进行了表征.通过正交分析法对所得样品相关特征指标进行分析,在少量的9组实验下,得到溅射功率、时间、靶基距和氧流量百分比4个独立工艺参数对薄膜特性影响的同时,得出直流反应磁控溅射法制备ZAO薄膜的最优组合工艺为:溅射时间20min,靶基距6cm,溅射功率80W,氧流量百分比7%;对应样品的Фic值达4.1050×10-2/Ω,电阻率为3.9×10-4Ω·cm,载流子浓度达1.09×1021/cm3.     

Annealing effect of ZnO/Au/ZnO transparent conductive films

Au intermediate ZnO (ZAZ) thin films were prepared by radio frequency and direct current magnetron sputtering on glass substrates and then vacuum annealed. The thickness of each layer of the ZAZ films was set at 50 nm, 3 nm, and 47 nm, respectively. The structural, electrical, and optical properties of ZAZ films were investigated with respect to the variation of annealing temperature.As-deposited AZO films showed X-ray diffraction peaks corresponding to ZnO (002) and Au (111) planes and those peak intensities increased with post-deposition vacuum annealing. The optical and electrical properties of the films were strongly influenced by post-deposition annealing. Although the optical transmittance of the films deteriorated with an Au interlayer, as-deposited ZAZ films showed a low resistivity of 2.0 × 10⁻⁴ Ω cm, and the films annealed at 300 °C had a lower resistivity of 9.8 × 10⁻⁵ Ω cm. The work function of the films increased with annealing temperature, and the films annealed at 300 °C had a higher work function of 4.1 eV than the films annealed at 150 °C. The experimental results indicate that vacuum-annealed ZAZ films are attractive candidates for use as transparent electrodes in large area electronic applications such as solar cells and large area displays.     

Design of ZnO/Ag/ZnO multilayer transparent conductive films

We have studied the properties of ZnO/Ag/ZnO multilayers prepared on glass substrates by simultaneous RF magnetron sputtering of ZnO and dc magnetron sputtering of Ag. The electrical and optical performance of Ag and ZnO single layer films was also investigated. Different optimization procedures were used for good transparent conductive film. Several analytical tools such as spectrophotometer, scanning electron microscope (SEM), four-point probes were used to explore the causes of the changes in electrical and optical properties. Low sheet resistance of 3 Ω/sq. and transmittance over 90% at 580 nm was achieved. The results of optimization condition of both oxide layers and metallic Ag layers were illustrated.     

Tungsten-doped ZnO transparent conducting films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering

Highly conducting and transparent thin films of tungsten-doped ZnO (ZnO:W) were prepared on glass substrates by direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering at low temperature. The effect of film thickness on the structural, electrical and optical properties of ZnO:W films was investigated. All the deposited films are polycrystalline with a hexagonal structure and have a preferred orientation along the c-axis perpendicular to the substrate. The electrical resistivity first decreases with film thickness, and then increases with further increase in film thickness. The lowest resistivity achieved was 6.97 × 10⁻⁴ Ω cm for a thickness of 332 nm with a Hall mobility of 6.7 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ and a carrier concentration of 1.35 × 10²¹ cm⁻³. However, the average transmittance of the films does not change much with an increase in film thickness, and all the deposited films show a high transmittance of approximately 90% in the visible range.     

Properties of Nb-doped ZnO transparent conductive thin films deposited by rf magnetron sputtering using a high quality ceramic target

Nb-doped ZnO films with (002) orientation have been grown on glass substrates by rf magnetron sputtering followed by vacuum annealing at 400°C for 3 h. The microstructures and surface figures of the Nbdoped ZnO films were investigated with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respectively. And its optical and electrical properties were measured at room temperature using a four-point probe technique and 756-type spectrophotometer, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD) revealed that the films are highly textured along the c axis and perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. After annealing at 400°C for 180 min under vacuum, transmittance of about 90% in visible region for Nb doped ZnO films was confirmed by the optical transmission spectra, and the low resistivity of 5·47 × 10⁻³ Ω·cm was obtained.     

Influence of Ar/O2 ratio on the properties of transparent conductive ZnO:Ga films prepared by DC reactive magnetron sputtering

Ga-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Ga) transparent conductive films with highly (002)-preferred orientation were deposited on glass substrates by DC reactive magnetron sputtering method in Ar + O₂ ambience with different Ar/O₂ ratios. The structural, electrical, and optical properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction, Hall measurement, and optical transmission spectroscopy. The resistivity and optical transmittance of the ZnO:Ga thin films are of the order of 10^− 4 Ω cm and over 85%, respectively. The lowest electrical resistivity of the film is found to be about 3.58 × 10^− 4 Ω cm. The influences of Ar/O₂ gas ratios on the resistivity, Hall mobility, and carrier concentration were analyzed.     

Fluorine-doped ZnO transparent conducting thin films prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering

Fluorine-doped ZnO transparent conducting thin films were prepared by radio frequency magnetron sputtering at 150 °C on glass substrate. Thermal annealing in vacuum was used to improve the optical and electrical properties of the films. X-ray patterns indicated that (002) preferential growth was observed. The grain size of F-doped ZnO thin films calculated from the full-width at half-maximum of the (002) diffraction lines is in the range of 18-24 nm. The average transmittance in visible region is over 90% for all specimens. The specimen annealed at 400 °C has the lowest resistivity of 1.86 × 10^− 3 Ω cm, the highest mobility of 8.9 cm² V^− 1 s^− 1, the highest carrier concentration of 3.78 × 10²⁰ cm^− 3, and the highest energy band gap of 3.40 eV. The resistivity of F-doped ZnO thin films increases gradually to 4.58 × 10^− 3 Ω cm after annealed at 400 °C for 4 h. The variation of the resistivity is slight.     

Highly conductive and transparent ZnO:Al thin films prepared on high-temperature substrates by d.c. magnetron sputtering

Highly conductive and transparent aluminium-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films have been prepared on high-temperature substrates using d.c. magnetron sputtering. In AZO films, the spatial distribution of resistivity across substrates placed parallel to the target was improved by deposition at substrate temperatures above 300 °C. AZO films with resistivities of 2−5 x 10⁻⁴ Ω cm were prepared under sputter gas pressures of between 0.6 and 3.0 Pa and at a substrate temperature of 350 °C. In addition, milky AZO films with a textured surface were prepared on high-temperature substrates under sputtering conditions which suppressed the c-axis orientation. A total transmittance of 72% and a haze factor of 63% at a wavelength of 500 nm and a sheet resistance as low as 2.0 Ω sq⁻¹ were obtained in milky AZO films 3 μm thick prepared at a sputter gas pressure of 12 Pa and a substrate temperature of 350 °C.     

Investigation of dual ion beam sputtered transparent conductive Ga-doped ZnO films

Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) transparent conducting films were deposited on sapphire (0001) substrates using dual ion beam sputtering deposition system. The impact of growth temperature on the structural, morphological, elemental, optical, and electrical properties was thoroughly investigated and reported. X-ray diffraction measurements explicitly confirmed that all GZO films had (002) preferred crystal orientation. The film deposited at 400 °C exhibited the narrowest full-width at half-maximum value of 0.24° for (002) crystalline plane and the lowest room temperature electrical resistivity of 4.11 × 10^?3 Ω cm. The Raman spectra demonstrated the vibrational modes at 576 and 650–670 cm^?1, associated with native oxygen vacancies and elemental Ga doping in ZnO lattice, respectively. All doped films showed an overall transmittance of above 95 % in the visible spectra. A correlation between structural, optical, elemental, and electrical properties with GZO growth temperature was established.     

Growth and characterization of group-II-alloyed ZnAlO UV-range transparent conductive films prepared by RF magnetron sputtering

ZnAlO films alloyed with various group-II elements (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr) were sputter grown and its effects on the optical and electrical properties of the films were studied. It was observed that addition of Be most efficiently increases the Eg (∼3.8 eV) but results in high resistivity (0.5 Ωcm), while an addition of Mg resulted in a relatively low resistivity (∼7 × 10⁻⁴ Ωcm) and moderate increase in Eg (3.7 eV). Other films showed high resistivity (∼1 Ωcm) and relatively low Eg (3.5 eV for ZnSrAlO). It was proposed that the difference in the ionic radii between the alloying elements and the Zn host ion resulted in lattice strain and formation of non-conductive clusters, which would act as the trap centers and scattering centers, reducing the carrier density and the mobility.     

Highly transparent conductive and near-infrared reflective ZnO:Al thin films

Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin films have been prepared on glass substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The structural, optical, and electrical properties were strongly dependent on the growth temperatures. The lowest resistivity of 4.5 × 10⁻⁴ Ωcm was obtained at an optimized temperature of 350 °C. The AZO films deposited at 350 °C also had the high optical transmittance above 87% in the visible range and the low transmittance (<15% at 1500 nm) and high reflectance (∼50% at 2000 nm) in the near-IR region. The good IR-reflective properties of ZnO:Al films show that they are promising for near-IR reflecting mirrors and heat reflectors.     

Optoelectronic properties of transparent conducting CdO:ZnO composite thin films by RF-magnetron sputtering

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - The present work execute the deposition of CdO:ZnO composite thin films with varying compositions&nbsp;of 90:10, 80:20, 70:30, and 60:40...     

Effect of sublayer surface treatments on ZnO transparent conductive oxides using dc magnetron sputtering

Novel sublayer surface treatments were investigated to improve the conductivity of aluminum-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Al) fabricated by using dc magnetron sputtering on a glass substrate. Introducing artificial minute flaws on the surface of glass substrates enhanced the crystallinity of ZnO:Al films and decreased the resistivity accompanying the increase of electron mobility. Combination of the surface treatment and sputter beam control, i.e., interruption of high-energy oxygen with shadow masks, further reduced the resistivity of the film to 3.7 × 10^− 4 Ω cm (thickness 70 nm).     

热处理气氛对ZnO透明导电膜性能的影响

采用溶胶-凝胶法、在空气、Ar气、H2气中热处理制备Al3+、F-掺杂的致密ZnO薄膜.利用XRD、SEM、分光光度计和四探针测试仪对薄膜性质进行表征.研究表明,强还原性H2气处理促进了薄膜晶界中吸附氧的解吸,减少了晶界处缺陷数目,有利于薄膜晶化程度和载流子浓度提高,所制得掺杂ZnO薄膜最低方阻为10Ω/□,在可见光范围内的达透射率在可达90%以上,性能接近ITO导电薄膜.     

Thermally stable, highly conductive, and transparent Ga-doped ZnO thin films

Highly conductive and transparent films of Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) have been prepared by pulsed laser deposition using a ZnO target with Ga₂O₃ dopant of 3 wt.% in content added. Films with resistivity as low as 3.3 × 10^− 4 Ω cm and transmittance above 80% at the wavelength between 400 and 800 nm can be produced on glass substrate at room temperature. It is shown that a stable resistivity for use in oxidation ambient at high temperature can be attained for the films. The electrical and optical properties, as well as the thermal stability of resistivity, of GZO films were comparable to those of undoped ZnO films.