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A Study on Electrical, Optical Properties of GZO Thin Film with Target Crystalline (GZO 타겟 결정성에 따른 박막의 전기적 광학적 특성)

  • Lee, Kyu-Ho;Kim, Kyung-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2012
  • In this research, we prepared Ga doped zinc oxide(ZnO:Ga, GZO) targets each difference sintering temperature $700^{\circ}C$, $800^{\circ}C$, and doping rate 1 wt.%, 2 wt.%, 3 wt.%. The characteristics of thin film on glass substrates which deposited by facing target sputtering in pure Ar atmosphere are reported. Ga doped zinc oxide film is attracted material through low resistivity, high transmittance, etc. When prepared target powder's structure was investigated by scanning electron microscope, densification and coarsening by driving force was observed. For each ZnO:Ga films with a $Ga_2O_3$ content of 3 wt.% at input power of 45W, the lowest resistivity of $9.967{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ ($700^{\circ}C$) and $9.846{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$ ($800^{\circ}C$) was obtained. the carrier concentration and mobility were $4.09{\times}10^{20}cm^{-3}$($700^{\circ}C$), $4.12{\times}10^{20}cm^{-3}$($800^{\circ}C$) and $15.31cm^2/V{\cdot}s(700^{\circ}C)$, $12.51cm^2/V{\cdot}s(800^{\circ}C)$, respectively. And except 1 wt.% Ga doped ZnO thin film, average transmittance of these samples in the range 350-800 nm was over 80%.

Effects of Substrate Temperature on Properties of (Ga,Ge)-Codoped ZnO Thin Films Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering (RF 마그네트론 스퍼트링에 의한 Ga 와 Ge가 도핑된 ZnO 박막 특성의 온도효과)

  • Jung, Il-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.584-588
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    • 2011
  • The ZnO thin films doped with Ga and Ge (GZO:Ge) were prepared on glass substrate using RF sputtering system. Structural, morphological and optical properties of the films deposited in different temperatures were studied. Proportion of the element of using target was 97 wt% ZnO, 2.5 wt% Ga and 0.5 wt% Ge with 99.99% highly purity. Structural properties of the samples deposited in different temperatures with 200 w RF power were investigated by field emission scanning electron microscopy, FE-SEM images and x-ray diffraction XRD analysis. Atomic force microscopy, AFM images were able to show the grain scales and surface roughness of each film rather clearly than SEM images. it was showed that increasing temperature have better surface smoothness by FE-SEM and AFM images. Transmittance study using UV-Vis spectrometer showed that all the samples have highly transparent in visible region (300~800 nm). In addition, it can be able to calculate bandgap energy from absorbance data obtained with transmittance. The hall resistivity, mobility, and optical band gap energy are influenced by the temperature.

Thermally stability of transparent Ga-doped ZnO thin films for TeO applications (투명 전도막 응용을 위한 Ga 도핑된 ZnO 박막의 열적 안정성에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Sang-Hoon;Ahn, Byung-Du;Lee, Choong-Hee;Lee, Sang-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.48-49
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    • 2006
  • Highly conductive and transparent films of Ga-doped ZnO have been prepared by pulsed laser deposition using a ZnO target with 3 wt% ${Ga_2}{O_3}$ dopant. Films with the resistivity as low as $3.3{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$ and the transmittance above 80 % at the wavelength of 400 to 800 nm can be fabricated on glass substrate at room temperature. It is shown that a stable resistivity for the use in oxidation ambient at high temperature can be obtained for the films. Heat treatments were performed to examine the thermal stability of ZnO and GZO films at ptemperature range from $100^{\circ}C$ to $400^{\circ}C$ in $O_2$ ambient for 30 minutes. The resistivity of ZnO film annealed at $400^{\circ}C$ increased by two orders of magnitude, in case of GZO film was relatively stable up to at $400^{\circ}C$. For practical applications at high temperatures the thermal stability of resistivity of GZO thin films might become an advantage for transparent electrodes.

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Effect of Deposition Temperature on Structural and Electrical Properties of Ga-Doped ZnO for Transparent Electrode of Thin Film Solar Cells (박막 태양전지용 투명 전극을 위한 Ga 도핑된 ZnO의 증착 온도에 따른 구조 및 전기 특성 변화)

  • Son, Chang-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.144-148
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    • 2011
  • We have investigated the structural and optical properties of Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering at various deposition temperatures from 100 to $500^{\circ}C$. All the GZO thin films are grown as a hexagonal wurtzite phase with highly c-axis preferred parameter. The structural and electrical properties are strongly related to deposition temperature. The grain size increases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $400^{\circ}C$ and then decreases at $500^{\circ}C$. The dependence of grain size on the deposition temperature results from the variation of thermal activation energy. The resistivity of GZO thin film decreases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $300^{\circ}C$ and then decreases up to $500^{\circ}C$. GZO thin film shows the lowest resistivity of $4.3{\times}10^{-4}\;{\Omega}cm$ and highest electron concentration of $1.0{\times}10^{21}\;cm^{-3}$ at $300^{\circ}C$. The mobility of GZO thin films increases with the increasing deposition temperature up to $400^{\circ}C$ and then decreases at $500^{\circ}C$. GZO thin film shows the highest resistivity of 14.1 $cm^2/Vs$. The transmittance of GZO thin films in the visible range is above 87% at all the deposition temperatures. GZO is a feasible transparent electrode for the application to the transparent electrode of thin film solar cells.

Effect of substrate on growth of Ga-doped ZnO thin films (Ga 도핑된 ZnO 박막의 기판에 따른 성장 특성)

  • Kim, Ji-Hong;Roh, Ji-Hyoung;Ryu, Kyoung-Jin;Moon, Sung-Joon;Kim, Jae-Won;Do, Kang-Min;Moon, Byung-Moo;Koo, Sang-Mo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.296-296
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    • 2010
  • In this work, we report the effect of substrate on the growth of Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films. GZO thin films were deposited on various substrates by using pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The structural properties, surface morphologies, and electrical properties were investigated. From the results of HRXRD, c-plane (0002) oriented growth of GZO films was confirmed on $Al_2O_3$ (0001). On the other hand, the GZO films on LAO (100) substrates were grown along the a-axis. The obvious differences on the electrical properties of each film were also obtained.

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Electrical and Structural Properties of GAZO Films Deposited by DC Magnetron Co-sputtering System with Two Cathodes (DC 마그네트론 Co-sputtering 시스템을 이용하여 증착한 GAZO 박막의 전기적 및 구조적 특성)

  • Jie, Luo;Park, Se-Hun;Song, Pung-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.122-127
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    • 2009
  • Ga/Al doped ZnO (GAZO) thin films were prepared on non-alkali glass substrate by co-sputtering system using two DC cathodes equipped with AZO ($Al_2O_3$:2.0 wt%) target and GZO ($Ga_2O_3$:6.65 wt%) target. This study examined the influence of Al/Ga concentration and substrate temperature on the electrical, structural and optical properties of GAZO films. The lowest resistivity $1.95{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$ was obtained at room temperature. With increasing substrate temperature, resistivity of GAZO film decreased to a minimum value of $7.47{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$ at below $300^{\circ}C$. Furthermore, when 0.05% $H_2$ gas was introduced, resistivity of GAZO film decreased to $6.69{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}cm$. All the films had a preferred orientation along the (002) direction, indicating that the deposited films have hexagonal wurtzite structure formed by the textured growth along the c-axis. The average transmittance of the films was more than 85% in the visible light range.

Alanysis of the Optical Properties of p-type ZnO Thin Films Doped by P based on Ampouele-tube Method (Ampoule-tube 법으로 Phosphorus를 도핑한 P형 ZnO 박막의 광학적 특성 분석)

  • Yoo, In-Sung;Oh, Sang-Hyun;So, Soon-Jin;Park, Choon-Bae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.145-146
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    • 2006
  • The most Important research topic in the development of ZnO LED and LD is the production of p-type ZnO thin film that has minimal stress with outstanding stoichiometric ratio. In this study, Phosphorus diffused into the undoped ZnO thin films using the ampoule-tube method for the production of p-type znO thin films. The undoped ZnO thin films were deposited by RF magnetron sputtering system on $GaAs_{0.6}P_{0.4}$/GaP and Si wafers. 4N Phosphorus (P) was diffused into the undoped ZnO thin films in ampoule-tube which was performed and $630^{\circ}C$ during 3hr. We found the diffusion condition of the conductive ZnO films which had p-type properties with the highest mobility of above 532 $cm^2$/Vs compared with other studies PL spectra measured at 10K for the purpose of analyzing optical properties of p-type ZnO thin film showed strong PL intensity in the UV emission band around 365nm ~ 415nm and 365nm ~ 385nm.

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Effects of The Substrate Temperature and The Thin film Thickness on The Properties of The Ga-doped ZnO Thin Film (기판온도 및 박막두께가 Ga-doped ZnO 박막의 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Won-Jun;Kang, Seong-Jun;Yoon, Yung-Sup
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.6-13
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    • 2010
  • 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.

Characterization of arsenic doped p-type ZnO thin film (As 토핑된 p형 ZnO 박막의 특성 분석)

  • Kim, Dong-Lim;Kim, Gun-Hee;Chang, Hyun-Woo;Ahn, Byung-Du;Lee, Sang-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.53-54
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    • 2006
  • Arsenic doped p-type ZnO thin films have been realized on intrinsic (100) GaAs substrate by RF magnetron sputtering and thermal annealing treatment. p-Type ZnO exhibits the hole concentration of $9.684{\times}10^{19}cm^3$, resistivity of $2.54{\times}10^{-3}{\Omega}cm$, and mobility of $25.37\;cm^2/Vs$. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra of As doped p-type ZnO thin films reveal neutral acceptor bound exciton ($A^{0}X$) of 3.3437 eV and a transition between free electrons and acceptor levels (FA) of 3.2924 eV. Calculated acceptor binding energy ($E_A$) is about 0.1455 eV. Thermal activation and doping mechanism of this film have been suggested by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). p-Type formation mechanism of As doped ZnO thin film is more related to the complex model, namely, $As_{Zn}-2V_{Zn}$, in which the As substitutes on the Zn site, rather than simple model, Aso, in which the As substitutes on the O site. ZnO-based p-n junction was fabricated by the deposition of an undoped n-type ZnO layer on an As doped p-type ZnO layer.

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Effect of Ga Addition on the Electrical and Structural Properties of (Zn,Mg)O Transparent Electrode Films (Ga 첨가량이 (Zn,Mg)O 투명전극 막의 전기적, 결정학적 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Suh, Kwang-Jong;Wakahara, Akihiro;Yoshida, Akira
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.15 no.8
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    • pp.491-495
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    • 2005
  • (Zn,Mg)O (ZMO) thin films doped with Ga $(0\~0.03mol\%)$ in the target source were prepared by pulsed laser deposition on c-plane sapphire substrates at $500^{\circ}C$, and the effect of Ga contents on the properties of the electrical, optical and crystal properties of the deposited films was investigated. From X-ray diffraction patterns, ZMO film doped with $0.02 mol\%$ Ga showed crystal structure with c-axis preferred orientation, showing only the (0002) and (0004) diffraction peaks. In contrast, ZMO film doped with $Ga=0.03 mol\%$ showed a randomly oriented crystal structure. All the samples were highly transparent, showing the transmittance values of above $85\%$ in the visible region. For all the Ga doped ZMO films, the value of energy band gap was found to be about 3.5 eV, regardless of their Ga contents. From the Hall measurements, the resistivity and the carrier density for the ZMO film doped with $0.01 mol\%$ Ga were about $5\times10^{-4}\Omega-cm$ and $2\times10^{21}cm^{-3}$, respectively.