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Title: High performance transparent conducting films of cadmium indate prepared by RF sputtering

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OSTI ID:417714
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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)

The authors are examining various spinel-structured thin films (e.g., Cd{sub 2}SnO{sub 4}, Zn{sub 2}SnO{sub 4}) to develop higher-quality transparent conducting oxides (TCO) than more conventional materials such as indium tin oxide. Here, they report on cadmium indate (CdIn{sub 2}O{sub 4}, CIO), which is another member of this family. Thin films of CIO were deposited by radio-frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering, from an oxide target, onto borosilicate glass substrates. The variables included the substrate temperature, sputtering gas composition, and pressure. Film properties were measured before and after heat treatment. Characterization involved Hall effect measurements, optical and infrared spectrophotometry, X-ray diffraction, and atomic-force microscopy. Film resistivities as low as 2.3 {times} 10{sup {minus}4} {Omega}cm were achieved for a film thickness of 0.55 {micro}m. The transmittance was 90% in the visible region of the spectrum, without correction for substrate losses and without an anti-reflection coating. The plasma resonance occurred at longer wavelengths than for other materials and this, with a bandgap of approximately 3.1 eV, presents a wide window for optical transmittance. The highest mobility was 54 cm{sup 2} V{sup {minus}1} s{sup {minus}1} and the highest carrier concentration was 7.5 {times} 10{sup 20} cm{sup {minus}3}.

OSTI ID:
417714
Report Number(s):
CONF-960401-; ISBN 1-55899-329-0; TRN: IM9705%%87
Resource Relation:
Conference: Spring meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS), San Francisco, CA (United States), 8-12 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Thin films for photovoltaic and related device applications; Ginley, D. [ed.] [National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)]; Catalano, A. [ed.] [Technology Assessment Group, Boulder, CO (United States)]; Schock, H.W. [ed.] [Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)]; Eberspacher, C. [ed.] [Unisun, Newbury Park, CA (United States)]; Peterson, T.M. [ed.] [Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)]; Wada, Takahiro [ed.] [Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Ltd., Kyoto (Japan)]; PB: 621 p.; Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Volume 426
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English