Effect of Oxygen Annealing on the Electrical and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Thin Film

Abstract:

This paper presents on the effect of oxygen annealing on the electrical properties and optical properties. Sol gel spin coating is used to deposit zinc oxide thin films on glass substrates to obtain the uniform thin films. Here, the ZnO thin films were annealed in oxygen environment with various oxygen concentration of 20 to 40 sccm. This metal oxide has shown its ability as a very high optical transmittance which at 20 sccm thin films give the highest transmittance that is 97.44% and at 40 sccm thin films give the lowest transmittance that is 87.61%. Next, this metal oxide also has shown its ability in fairly good electrical properties which the lowest resistivity at 40 sccm thin films is 1.61× 10⁴ Ωcm^-1.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1109)
• Pages: 598-602
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1109.598
• Online since: June 2015
• Authors: Mohd Nizar Zainol*, Shafinaz Shariffudin, Mohamad Hafiz Mamat, Mohamad Rusop
• Keywords: Electrical Properties, Optical Properties, Oxygen Concentrations, Sol-Gel Spin Coating Method, Structural Properties, ZNO

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