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SN APPLIED SCIENCES
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s42452-020-04091-1
Keywords
Ultrasonic spray pyrolysis; Oxygen plasma etching; Silver oxide film; Optical properties; Electrical properties
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This study fabricated highly porous silver oxide nanowires thin films using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis and oxygen plasma etching method, and found that oxidation time and plasma etching time significantly affect the properties of the films, leading to the formation of porous silver oxide thin films.
In this paper, we report oxidation time effect on highly porous silver oxide nanowires thin films fabricated using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis and oxygen plasma etching method. The NW's morphological, electrical, and optical properties were investigated under different plasma etching periods and the number of deposition cycles. The increase of plasma etching and oxidation time increases the surface roughness of the Ag NWs until it fused to form a porous thin film of silver oxide. AgNWs based thin films were characterized using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, and UV-Vis spectroscopy techniques. The obtained results indicate the formation of mixed mesoporous Ag2O and AgO NW thin films. The Ag2O phase of silver oxide appears after 300 s of oxidation under the same conditions, while the optical transparency of the thin film decreases as plasma etching time increases. The sheet resistance of the final film is influenced by the oxidation time and the plasma application periodicity.
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