Journal
THIN SOLID FILMS
Volume 520, Issue 7, Pages 2723-2730Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2011.11.052
Keywords
Indium tin oxide; Sputtering; Colloidal nanoparticles; Transparent conducting oxide; Transparent conductor; Thin film; Resistivity; Annealing
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- US Department of Energy [DE-FG 02-03-ER 46035]
- Institute of Paper Science & Technology Alumni Association
- National Science Foundation
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Indium tin oxide (ITO) films were fabricated by (i) RF sputtering and (ii) spin coating of a colloidal ITO dispersion synthesized in-house. Films were deposited onto glass and quartz substrates and were annealed in air and in argon. The electrical properties of the films were studied as a function of annealing temperature and atmosphere. For the colloidal films, the effect of pre-annealing plasma treatments was also evaluated. Removal of the organic ligands from the colloidal films, in combination with annealing, resulted in over 8 orders of magnitude decrease in the film resistivity. It was found that plasma treatments were particularly effective in reducing film resistivity for low temperature annealed colloidal films. Results for the cold-sputtered films were for the most part as expected, with argon annealing resulting in lower resistivities than films annealed in air. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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