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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2013.17.5.1213

The electrical and optical properties of the Ga-doped ZnO thin films grown on transparent sapphire substrate  

Chung, Yeun Gun (전남대학교 건설.환경공학부)
Joung, Yang Hee (전남대학교 전기 및 반도체 공학과)
Kang, Seong Jun (전남대학교 전기 및 반도체 공학과)
Abstract
In this study, Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films were fabricated on transparent sapphire substrate by RF magnetron sputtering method and then investigated the effect of various substrate temperature on the electrical, optical properties and characteristic of crystallization of the GZO thin films. The electrical property indicated that the lowest resistivity ($4.18{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$), the highest carrier concentration ($6.77{\times}10^{20}cm^{-3}$) and Hall mobility ($22cm^2/Vs$) were obtained in the GZO thin film fabricated at $300^{\circ}C$. And for this condition, the highest c-axis orientation and (002) diffraction peak which exhibits a FWHM of $0.34^{\circ}$ were obtained. From the results of AFM measurements, it is known that the highest crystallinity is observed at $300^{\circ}C$. The transmittance spectrum in the visible range was approximately 80 % regardless of substrate temperature. The optical band-gap showed the blue-shift as increasing the substrate temperature to $300^{\circ}C$, and they are all larger than the band gap of bulk ZnO (3.3 eV). It can be explained by the Burstein-Moss effect.
Keywords
TCO; RF magnetron sputtering; Transparent Sapphire; GZO; Hall effect; Transmittance;
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