ICMCTF 2012! - CD-Lab Application Oriented Coating Development
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the discharge phenomenon and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is<br />
conducted to corroborate the findings.<br />
BP-43 Electrical transport properties in ZrN-SiNx-ZrN structures<br />
investigated by I-V measurements, D. Oezer, C.S. Sandu, EPFL,<br />
Switzerland, R. Sanjines (rosendo.sanjines@epfl.ch), Ecole Polytechnique<br />
Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland<br />
Nanocomposite thin films based on polycrystalline transition metal nitride<br />
(MeN, Me = Ti, Cr, Zr, …), in which the metallic MeN crystallites are<br />
embedded in an amorphous silicon nitride matrix, are considered as<br />
interesting materials due to their rich variety of physical properties, such as<br />
high hardness and improved thermal and chemical stability. The<br />
mechanical, optical and electrical properties are strongly linked to the<br />
architecture of the silicon nitride tissue phase at the grain boundaries.<br />
According to our best knowledge the local chemical composition and the<br />
thickness of the grain boundaries have never been probed directly so far.<br />
However the interpretation of the temperature dependent electrical<br />
resistivity data in the frame work of the grain boundary scattering model<br />
combined with structural and chemical analyses allows to correlate the<br />
evolution of the silicon nitride coverage layer to the electron grain boundary<br />
transmission probability. In order to investigate the mechanism of electrical<br />
conduction through single grain boundaries, we have investigated the<br />
transverse electric transport through well defined ZrNy/SiNx/ZrNy<br />
multilayers with varying SiNx interlayer thicknesses and chemical<br />
compositions by means of I-V characteristic curves. At room temperature,<br />
depending on the SiNx thickness linear I-V and symmetric nonlinear I-V<br />
characteristics are observed. On the bases of standard models for M-I-M<br />
such as the Poole-Frenkel and Tunneling models, we will discuss the<br />
applicability of our results to the interpretation of the electric conduction in<br />
“real” nanocomposite MeN/SiNx systems.<br />
Fundamentals and Technology of Multifunctional Thin<br />
Films: Towards Optoelectronic Device <strong>Application</strong>s<br />
Room: Golden Ballroom - Session CP<br />
Symposium C Poster Session<br />
CP-1 Investigation on Physical Properties of CuInSe2 Films Prepared<br />
by Pulsed Laser Deposition, M.H. Wen, J.Y. Luo, Y.T. Hsieh, C.C. Chang,<br />
C.H. Hsu, Y.R. Wu, W.H. Chao, M.K. Wu, Institute of Physics, Academia<br />
Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan, H.S. Koo (frankkoo@must.edu.tw), Ming-Hsin<br />
University of Science and Technology,Taiwan<br />
We report the study on thin films composed of the Cu-rich CuInSe2 (CISe).<br />
The films were deposited on the glass and Mo-coated substrate,<br />
respectively, by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method at substrate<br />
temperatures from 450� ~ 600�. Both films revealed an obvious<br />
orientation (112) when the substrate temperature above 450 �. By applying<br />
different substrate temperatures, different grain size and crystallinity of<br />
CISe films were obtained. The films showed a p-type electrical conductivity<br />
with a high absorption coefficient of 10 4 ~ 10 5 cm –1 and optical energy gap<br />
of 0.92 ~ 0.97 eV.<br />
CP-2 Electro-optical properties and damp heat stability of Al-doped<br />
ZnO thin films prepared by laser induced high current pulsed arc<br />
deposition, J.B. Wu (wujinbao@itri.org.tw), C.Y. Chen, C.C. Shih, J.J.<br />
Chang, M.S. Leu, Material and Chemical Research <strong>Lab</strong>oratories, Industrial<br />
Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, H.Y. Tseng, Y.C. Lu, BeyondPV<br />
Co., Ltd, Taiwan<br />
Highly transparent conductive Al-doped ZnO (AZO) thin film was<br />
deposited at 100 °C by laser induced high current pulsed arc (LIHCPA)<br />
from an Al-Zn alloy target (2 and 3 wt.% of Al doping content). The film’s<br />
properties were highly correlated to the growth conditions, including O2<br />
partial pressure and Al doping content. The results clearly showed that<br />
when the O2 partial pressure increased from 8×10 -2 Pa to 3×10 -1 Pa, the<br />
resistivity gradually increased from 4.2×10 -4 to 1.9 ×10 -3 Ω-cm and 5.2×10 -4<br />
to 2.3 ×10 -3 Ω-cm for the 3 and 2 wt.% of Al-Zn target. Likewise, t he band<br />
gap of the AZO films calculated by UV/VIS spectrometer measurement<br />
decreased from 3.77 eV to 3.58 eV and 3.56 to 3.44 eV as well. The XRD<br />
results showed that the AZO films preferred c-axis orientation along the<br />
(002) plane. XPS analysis revealed that the Zn and O chemical state can be<br />
assigned to the Zn exits in the oxidized state and O occurs in two chemical<br />
state (I) O 2- ions on wurtzite structure of hexagonal Zn 2+ ion array,<br />
surrounded by Zn and the (II) chemisorbed oxygen species like O 2- , O - and<br />
O2 - at the grain boundaries, respectively. The degradation and performance<br />
studies of AZO and its variants have been performed under varied<br />
temperature conditions at 85% RH. The results indicated that samples held<br />
at 37 °C and 45 °C did not show any degradation of the sheet resistance<br />
Thursday Afternoon Poster Sessions 104<br />
upon exposure. However, the final sheet resistance of AZO films held at 85<br />
°C showed 2 times higher than that for as-grown films.<br />
CP-3 Effect of Dopants and Thermal Treatment on Properties of Ga-<br />
Al-ZnO Thin Films Fabricated by Hetero Targets Sputtering System,<br />
K.H. Kim (KHKim@kyungwon.ac.kr), Department of Electrical<br />
Engineering, Gachon University Republic of Korea, J.S. Hong, N.<br />
Matsushita, Materials and Structures <strong>Lab</strong>oratory, Tokyo Institute of<br />
Technology, Japan, H.W. Choi, Department of Electrical Engineering,<br />
Gachon University, Korea<br />
For preparation of new material transparent electrode, we prepared the Ga<br />
and Al doped ZnO (Ga-Al-ZnO; GAZO) thin film under various conditions<br />
by using facing targets sputtering (FTS) system as function of input current<br />
and thermal treatment temperature.<br />
The FTS system can prepare the thin film using new materials because it<br />
uses two targets. Also, the substrate is located in a plasma-free area apart<br />
from the center of plasma so it can suppress high energy particles colliding<br />
to the substrate so high quality films can be prepared.<br />
The properties of the as-deposited GAZO thin films were then examined by<br />
4-point prove, atomic force microscope (AFM), X-ray diffractometer<br />
(XRD), and field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and<br />
UV-VIS spectrometer. As a result, the lowest sheet resistance of the films<br />
showed 59.3 ohm/sq and average transmittance about 90% in the visible<br />
range. And after thermal treatment, we could observe the more improved<br />
properties of GAZO thin film. The lowest sheet resistance (47.3ohm/sq) of<br />
the GAZO thin films were shown at thermal treatment temperature of<br />
300˚C. It is considered that this is the result of continuous substitutions by<br />
dopants and improved crystalline by thermal treatment.<br />
CP-4 Ellipsometry Study of a Reactively Sputtered Transparent<br />
Conductive Oxide(TCO), G. Ding (gding@intermolecular.com), M. Le, F.<br />
Hassan, Z. Sun, M. Ngugen, Intermolecular Inc, US<br />
Sb-Sn oxide (ATO), a good TCO, thin film was reactively sputtered on a<br />
glass, and characterized as the Sb contents and annealing temperatures, by<br />
transmission, reflection, absorption, resistivity, film thickness, refractive<br />
index n and k, XRD, Hall probe and ellipsometer (300~1000nm).<br />
An ellipsometry method was developed to determine the ATO film carrier<br />
density and gradience. There are some reports on the resistivity evaluation<br />
based on the Drude model through ellipsometer measurements. However,<br />
the uniqueness of the model fitting is poor in many conditions, (many<br />
values could fit the model, so that no unique value could be precisely<br />
determined). In theory: Tauc-Lorentz and Drude could give good<br />
description of the band-gap and free carrier physics of the ellipsometry<br />
spectra. The reason of poor uniqueness value in model fitting lies in that the<br />
measurement data content is not enough to uniquely determine physical<br />
parameters; thus the simulation will face uniqueness issue for the solution.<br />
How to increase the measurement data content is a key to improve the<br />
uniqueness of the simulation. Multiple angles did not help much on this data<br />
content issue. The transmission and reflection spectra measurements were<br />
helpful at some cases. However, the uniqueness is still poor in many other<br />
cases in our ATO film study. Here we present a new method that combined<br />
resistivity measurement into modeling, instead of simulating resistivity ρ.<br />
Thus, this method increases measurement data content, so it significantly<br />
improved the uniqueness of the solution in the modeling; thus, through<br />
Drude model relationship, the carrier density and mobility of the ATO film<br />
could be uniquely determined.<br />
Drude model: the dielectric constant ε is function of resistivity ρ, scattering<br />
time τ i, and wavelength λ. Then electron density N and mobility μ could be<br />
calculated from ρ=m*/(Nq 2 τ) , if assumed m* is a constant (such as 0.3me)<br />
The gradience profile simulation is widely used for ellipsometry simulation,<br />
combined with the above method, the gradience of carrier density and<br />
mobility can be estimated, in comparison of Hall probe measurements, two<br />
methods provides similar carrier density and mobility, but the former one<br />
here could provide gradience information.<br />
In this study, a new method was developed to significantly improve the<br />
ellipsometry simulation uniqueness, so that the carrier density and mobility<br />
of the ATO film could be uniquely determined. The gradience information<br />
could be estimated, and presented.<br />
CP-5 <strong>Application</strong>-Specific Transparent Conductive Oxide<br />
<strong>Development</strong> using High Productivity Combinatorial Methods, M.A.<br />
Nguyen, M. Le (mle@intermolecular.com), Intermolecular Inc, US<br />
Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) have become crucial not only as<br />
contact layers in photovoltaic applications, but also in electrochromic<br />
devices, low emissivity glass for commercial buildings, TFT-L<strong>CD</strong> displays<br />
and touch panels, as well as in flexible PV applications. With new<br />
applications come new specifications, and the corresponding need to