Publication: Structural electrical and optical properties of undoped and indium doped ZnO thin films prepared by the pyrosol process at different temperatures
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Elsevier B.V.
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The influence of the substrate temperature on the structural features and opto-electrical properties of undoped and indium-doped ZnO thin films deposited by pyrosol process was investigated. The addition of indium induces a drastic decrease (by a factor approximate to 10(10) for samples deposited at 300 degreesC) in the electrical resistivity of films, the lowest electrical resistivity (6 mOmega-cm) being observed for the film deposited at 450 degreesC. Films are highly transparent (>80%) in the Vis-NIR ranges, and the optical band gap exhibits a blue shift (from 3.29 to 3.33 eV) for the In-doped films deposited at increasing temperature. Preferential orientation of the ZnO crystallites with the c-axis perpendicular to the substrate surface and an anisotropic morphology of the nanoporous structure was observed for films growth at 300 and 350 degreesC. (C) 2002 Elsevier B.V. B.V. All rights reserved.
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electrical properties, nanostructures, optical coatings, zinc oxide
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Thin Solid Films. Lausanne: Elsevier B.V. Sa, v. 416, n. 1-2, p. 284-293, 2002.