Journal
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 28-31Publisher
INST PURE APPLIED PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.41.28
Keywords
ZnO; pulsed laser deposition (PLD); thickness variation; misfit strain; strain relaxation
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
A series of ZnO films with various thicknesses were prepared on (0001) sapphire substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis were utilized to investigate the effects of thickness variation on the surface morphology and the crystallinity. The electrical and optical properties of the films were also investigated as a function of the film thickness. It was found that the crystalline quality, electrical and optical properties of the films depended on the film thickness and were improved with increasing the film thickness. This is attributed to the fact that the films thinner than 4000 Angstrom are under the severe misfit strain. which decreases with increasing the film thickness further.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available