Electrical and Optical Properties of Indium Tin Zirconium Oxide Films at Different Annealing Treatment Temperatures

Abstract:

Indium tin oxide (ITO) and indium tin zirconium oxide (ITZO) films were deposited on glass substrates at room temperature by magnetron sputtering technology with one or two targets. Electrical and optical properties of ITO and ITZO films by air-annealing treatment were contrastively studied. ITZO films provided with the preferential crystalline orientation change from (222) to (400) plane, as well as the increase in grain size and the decrease in surface roughness. As result, zirconium -doping remarkably improved the optical-electrical properties of the films deposited at room temperature. The resistivity of ITO and ITZO films showed the trend which includes first dropping and then rising, which was closely related with the variations of carrier concentration and mobility. ITZO films had high optical transmittance of above 80% at lower annealing temperature. ITZO films prepared by co-sputtering reveal better optical-electrical properties.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 189)
• Pages: 110-114
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.189.110
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Jian Guo Chai, Bo Zhang
• Keywords: Annealing Treatment, ITO Films, Magnetron Sputtering, Zirconium

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