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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
卷 22, 期 31, 页码 15740-15749出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2jm32000b
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- NTNU
- strategic research area MATERIALS at NTNU
- The Norwegian Research Centre for Solar Cell Technology, a Centre for Environment-friendly Energy Research [193829]
- Norwegian Research Council
An environmentally friendly aqueous sol-gel process has been developed to fabricate thin films of indium tin oxide (ITO). A stable sol was prepared from indium nitrate and tin acetate precursors together with acetic acid and ethylene glycol. The sol transformed into an amorphous gel during heating, which decomposed and crystallized further to nano-crystalline ITO at similar to 300 degrees C. The nanocrystalline ITO powders prepared from the precursor gel were homogeneous and single phase with particle sizes around 15 nm. The aqueous sol was applied for spin coating of ITO films on glass substrates. The deposited thin films were homogeneous and continuous with no cracks or pin-holes and exhibited very good and reproducible optical transparency and electrical conductivity, with a specific resistance of 4.59 x 10(-3) Omega cm, thereby demonstrating the potential of this Pechini related sol-gel process. Experiments to determine the robustness of the process with respect to the concentration of the precursors and substitution of the organic components with other alcohols or acids were also performed, and some important aspects of the chemistry of the sol-gel process are addressed.
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