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Effects of The Substrate Temperature and The Thin film Thickness on The Properties of The Ga-doped ZnO Thin Film  

Cho, Won-Jun (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
Kang, Seong-Jun (Dept. of Electrical and Semiconductor Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Yoon, Yung-Sup (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Inha University)
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Abstract
In this study, Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films have been fabricated on Eagle 2000 glass substrates at various substrate temperatures $100{\sim}400^{\circ}C$ and thin film thickness by RF magnetron sputtering in order to investigate the structural, electrical, and optical properties of the GZO thin films. It is observed that all the thin films exhibit c-axis orientation and a (002) diffraction peak only. The GZO thin films, which were deposited at $T=300^{\circ}C$ and 400 nm, shows the highest (002) orientation, and the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the (002) diffraction peak is $0.4^{\circ}$. AFM analysis shows that the formation of relatively smooth thin films are obtained. The lowest resistivity ($8.01{\times}10^{-4}\;{\Omega}cm$) and the highest carrier concentration ($3.59{\times}10^{20}\;cm^{-3}$) are obtained in the GZO thin films deposited at $T=300^{\circ}C$ and 400 nm. The optical transmittance in the visible region is approximately 80 %, regardless of process conditions. The optical band-gap shows the slight blue-shift with increase in doping which can be explained by the Burstein-Moss effect.
Keywords
Ga-doped ZnO; RF Sputtering; Resistivity; Carrier Concentration; Transmittance;
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