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- Title
Study of gallium doping and substrate temperature effects on structural, electrical and optical properties of ZnO semiconductor layers.
- Authors
Mahdhi, H.; Ben Ayadi, Z.; Hadded, N.; Gauffier, L.; Djessas, K.
- Abstract
In the present study, zinc oxide doped gallium thin films (ZnO:Ga) at different percentage (0.0, 1.0, 3.0 and 5.0 at.%) were deposited on glass substrates by magnetron sputtering technique using nanocrystalline particles elaborated by sol-gel method. The effect of Ga concentration and the deposition temperature on the structural, electrical and optical properties of the ZnO:Ga thin films were investigated. In the first step, the nanoparticles were synthesized by sol-gel method using supercritical drying in ethyl alcohol. The structural properties studied by X-ray diffractometry indicates that Ga doped ZnO has a polycrystalline hexagonal wurtzite structure with a grain size of about 30 nm. The transmission electron microscopy images have shown that the synthesized GZO is a nanosized powder. Then, thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by rf-magnetron sputtering at various substrate temperatures. The as deposited films with a thickness of about 300 nm were polycrystalline with a hexagonal wurtzite structure and preferentially oriented in the (002) crystallographic direction. The crystallite size ranged from 25 to 33 nm, depending on the deposition temperature and Ga at.%. Under particular growth conditions, the investigation shows that the ZnGaO sample presents the best properties for potential use in various optoelectronic applications, namely: a single wurtzite phase, low surface roughness (Ra ~ 5 nm), a high transparency of 90 % in the UV-Vis-NIR, a wide band gap of 3.65 eV and a resistivity of ~2.20 × 10 Ω cm.
- Subjects
THIN films; POLYCRYSTALS; X-ray diffractometers; CONDENSED matter physics; SUBSTRATES (Materials science); OPTICAL properties of zinc oxide; ELECTRIC properties of zinc oxide
- Publication
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 12, p9873
- ISSN
0957-4522
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10854-015-3663-2