Electrical and Optical Stability of Two Kinds of Different Element Doped Tin Oxide Film Carrier Materials in an Acid Environment

Abstract:

The stability of the fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) and the indium doped tin oxide (ITO) films, which are used as gene chip carrier, are detected in an acid solution. The change of relative resistivity (Δ R/R) with immersion time and average visible light transmittance of the films are contrasted before and after immersing in 1 mol/L (1M) H₂SO₄ solution. The results indicate that the Δ R/R of ITO film sample increases rapidly with increasing the immersion time, and Δ R/R is 111% after 12 h;However, the Δ R/R of FTO film sample increases smoothly and the Δ R/R is 2.9% after 100 h immersion. At the same time, the average visible light transmittance of FTO film decreased, but ITO film is completely corroded, and the average visible light transmittance is close to the glass transmittance. The potentiodynamic polarization curves show that the corrosion current of FTO film is 1.749 × 10⁻⁶A and less than ITO,so the corrosion resistance of FTO film is higher than ITO film in 1M H₂SO₄ solution. Moreover, the corrosion morphology validates this conclusion.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1058)
• Pages: 236-239
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1058.236
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Xiao Li Shi, Ye Hua Jiang*, Yu Qin Zhang, Hui Jun Wu
• Keywords: Chemical Functionalisation, Relative Resistivity Change, Transmittance

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