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Transparent Conducting oxide

Materials Characterization lab

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)


(TCO)
Electronical Conductivity () ; 103 -1cm-2
Optical Transmittance ; 80 %
Band gap ; 3.3 eV
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A-Si

Free carrier type Oxygen deficiency


Electric charge carrier density & Effective mass

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)


(TCO)
ITO (In2O3:Sn, Sn~10%)
IZO (In2O3:Zn, Zn~5%)
FTO (SnO2:F)
ZnO
A-IGZO (In2O3:Ga2O3:ZnO)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)



N-type :

P-type :

Dopant
1. N-type ,
ZnO ; - 4.35eV , Band gap 3.37eV

MgO ; 1.37eV, Band gap 7.8eV


carrier
2. P-type Low work function
Metal-Oxygen ; , 16(S, Se, Te)
(CuAlO2)
3.

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Magnetron sputtering
PVD(Physical vapor deposition)
DC, RF, reactive
gas cathode
Ar + e-(primary) = Ar+ + e-(primary) + e-(secondary)
- target , target

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Sputtering

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-. , step defect coverage
-. (adhesion)
-. , , , .
-. Target , target .
-. sputter etching pre-cleaning .
-. O2, N2 reactive sputter , .

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Sputtering

-. High energy deposition damage


damage .
-. , UV, (100150)
holder .

-.
Ar , , bias , .

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Sputtering

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-.
-. target
-.
-. Background : 110-5110-6 Torr
-. Ar : 215mTorr
-. Input power : 5001000W
-. Reflected power "0" setting
-. bias : -50-100W

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD)

-.
-. UV target
-. Laser plume
-. millitorr
-.
-. ~3 epitaxial
-. p-type TCO

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

(Chemical vapor deposition, CVD)

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-. , ,
-. (APCVD), (LPCVD), (PECVD), (MOCVD)
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-. ,

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

(Solution deposition)

-. Sol-gel
-. or

-.
-. alkoxide
-. - : ,
-. PVD PLD
-. ,
-. , ,
-.

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

(aerosol spray pyrolysis)

-.
-.

-.
-. ,
-. ,

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

Combination depositon methods

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-. target
-. NiCo2O4 sputter
-.

TCO (Transparent Conducting Oxide)

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