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Highly-Ordered Growth of Solution-Processable ZnO for Thin Film Transistors
- Source :
- ECS Transactions. 77:99-107
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- The Electrochemical Society, 2017.
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Abstract
- Zinc oxide is an important optoelectronic material, of particular interest due to its wide band gap (Eg ~ 3.3 eV at 300 K), large exciton binding energy (~66 meV) and especially for the variety of methods by which it can be processed. Moreover, ZnO is readily able to alloy with other metals in the oxide form and has a lattice that can facilitate interstitial doping. This gives ZnO a key role in the area of optoelectronics, metal oxide thin films and thin film transistor (TFT) technologies. We demonstrate that crystalline, epitaxial-like and highly ordered ZnO thin films can be achieved from a precursor liquid at relatively low temperature via spin-coating. The synthesised films are smooth, stoichiometric ZnO with controllable thickness. An iterative layer-by-layer coating schematic is employed to demonstrate the effects of film thickness on structure, morphology as well as the surface and internal defects. Characterisation of the crystallinity, morphology, O-vacancy formation, stoichiometry, surface roughness and thickness variation was determined through X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron and atomic force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron and photoluminescence spectroscopy, and the data of multi-layered ZnO correlated to defect formation and electrical conductivity. It is imperative that high crystal quality epitaxial-like thin films can be formed from solution processing to compete with physical deposition methods. We demonstrate that iterative spin-coating of deposited ZnO films results in a transition in crystal texture with increasing thickness (number of layers) from the [] m-plane to the [] c-plane. The films attain a c-axis preferential orientation, with no other crystalline peaks present. Results show that the film’s surface morphology was very smooth, with average rms roughness
- Subjects :
- Morphology
Morphology (linguistics)
Materials science
X ray diffraction
Thin films
Crystalline materials
chemistry.chemical_element
Zinc
Super-lattice structures
Atomic force microscopy
Effect of temperature
Surface roughness
Coatings
Zinc oxide
Annealing condition
Thin film
Metallic films
Photoluminescence spectroscopy
business.industry
Temperature
Electrical engineering
Thin film circuits
Preferential orientation
X-ray photoelectrons
chemistry
Thin-film transistor
Solution processable
X-ray crystallography
Thickness variation
Film growth
Optoelectronics
Transmission electron
Surface defects
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19385862 and 19386737
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ECS Transactions
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ac90f2ac1e18ff9c4264c9aecbc5d06e