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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2011.15.7.1559

Electrical and Optical Properties of the Ga-doped ZnO Thin Films Deposited on PES (Polyethersulfon) Substrate  

Chung, Yeun-Gun (전남대학교 건설.환경공학부)
Joung, Yang-Hee (전남대학교 전기 및 반도체 공학과)
Kang, Seong-Jun (전남대학교 전기 및 반도체 공학과)
Abstract
We fabricated gallium doped ZnO (GZO, 5 wt% Ga) thin films on PES (polyethersulfon) substrate with RF magnetron sputtering and investigated optical and electrical properties for various substrate temperatures ($50{\sim}200^{\circ}C$). All GZO thin film has c-axis preferred orientation without reference to deposition conditions. As a result of AFM analysis, the GZO thin film deposited at $200^{\circ}C$ exhibited the lowest surface roughness of 0.196nm. The transmittance of GZO thin films were above 80% and Burstein-Moss effect was observed. In the analysis of Hall measurement, we confirmed that the GZO thin film deposited at $200^{\circ}C$ showed the lowest resistivity of $6.93{\times}10-4{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ and the highest carrier concentration of $7.04{\times}1020/cm^3$.
Keywords
TCO; PES substrate; GZO thin film; Resistivity; Transmittance; Burstein-Moss effect;
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