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CRYSTAL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 10, Pages 1039-1046Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/crat.201200201
Keywords
transparent conducting oxide; Al-doped ZnO; electrical properties; optical properties
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei [2011CDB418]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61002013, 11147014]
- Academic Team Project of South-Central University for Nationalities [XTZ09003]
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The Al-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Al) thin films were grown on glass substrates by the magnetron sputtering technique. The films were characterized with X-ray diffractometer, four-point probe and optical transmission spectroscopy, respectively. The dependence of microstructural, electrical and optical properties on deposition temperature was investigated. The results show that all the films have hexagonal wurtzite structure with highly c-axis orientation. And the microstrural and optoelectrical properties of the films are observed to be subjected to the deposition temperature. The ZnO:Al film prepared at the deposition temperature of 650 K possesses the best optoelectrical properties, with the lowest electrical resistivity (6.1x10-4 O center dot cm), the highest average visible transmittance (85.3%) and the maximum figure of merit (0.41 O-1). The optical energy gap of the films was estimated from Tauc's law and observed to be an increasing tendency with the increment of the deposition temperature. Furthermore, the refractive index of the films was determined by the optical characterization methods and the dispersion behavior was studied by the single electronic oscillator model.
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