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http://dx.doi.org/10.5757/JKVS.2008.17.1.073

Study on Wet chemical Etching Characterization of Zinc Oxide Film for Transparency Conductive Oxide Application  

Yoo, Dong-Geun (Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University)
Kim, Myoung-Hwa (Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University)
Jeong, Seong-Hun (Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University)
Boo, Jin-Hyo (Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University)
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Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society / v.17, no.1, 2008 , pp. 73-79 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to apply for transparent conductive oxide(TCO), we deposited ZnO thin films on the glass at room temperature by RF magnetron sputtering method. Deposition conditions for high transmittance and low resistivity were optimized in our previous studies. Under the deposition condition with the RF power of 200 W, target to substrate distance of 30 mm and working pressure of 5 mTorr, highly conductive($7.4{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$) and transparent(over 85%) ZnO films were prepared. Highly oriented ZnO film in the [002] direction were obtained with specifically designed ZnO targets. Systematic study on dependence of deposition parameters on electrical and optical properties of the as-grown ZnO films were mainly investigated in this work. And for application tests using these films as transparent conductive oxide anodes, wet chemical etching behaviors of ZnO films were also investigated using various chemicals. Wet-chemical etching behavior of ZnO films were investigated using various acid solutions. The concentrations of these different acid solutions were controlled to study the etching shapes and etching rate. ZnO films were anisotropically etched at various concentrations and wet etching led to crater-like surface structure. Also we firstly found that the etching rate and etching shapes of ZnO films strongly depended on the etchant concentrations (i.e. pH) and the etching rate is exponentially decreased with increasing pH values regardless of the acid etchants.
Keywords
ZnO thin film; RF magnetron sputtering; Wet chemical etching; Transparent conductive oxide electrodes;
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