Enhancement in electrical and optical properties of ITO thin films grown by 2-step process at room temperature

2-step 공정법에 의해 상온 증착된 ITO박막의 전기 광학적 특성 향상

The optical and electrical properties of indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films deposited at room temperature can be substantially enhanced by adopting a two-step process. In the first step, the films (50 nm thick) were grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on glass substrate at room temperature and quickly annealed at $400^{\circ}C$ in nitrogen ambient for 1 minute by using rapid thermal annealing method. The process was completed by additional deposition (150 nm thick) on annealed film at room temperature. High quality ITO films grown by two-step process at room temperature could be obtained with the resistivity of $3.02{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$, the carrier mobility of 32.07 $cm^2/Vs$, and the transparency above 90 % in visible region mainly due to the enhancement of the film crystallinity and the increase of grain size.