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Title: Conductive metal oxide film and method of making

Patent ·
OSTI ID:20013872

The present invention is a method for reducing a dopant in a film of a metal oxide wherein the dopant is reduced and the first metal oxide is substantially not reduced. The method of the present invention relies upon exposing the film to reducing conditions for a predetermined time and reducing a valence of the metal from a positive valence to a zero valence and maintaining atoms with a zero valence in an atomic configuration within the lattice structure of the metal oxide. According to the present invention, exposure to reducing conditions may be achieved electrochemically or achieved in an elevated temperature gas phase.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
20013872
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 23 Nov 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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