5090
Hagar Mohamed Mohamed Abd El Wahab
Preparation and characterization of pure and doped ZnO thin films
Transparent Conducting Oxide (TCO), Zinc Oxide (ZnO) Thin film, Zinc Oxide doped Aluminium (AZO), Spray pyrolysis, Structure study, Optical study, Morphological study and Electrical study.
In the recent years, Zinc oxide (ZnO) have received considerable attention due to the excellent electrical, optical and structural properties, ZnO thin films have wide applications as transparent electrodes, gas sensors, light emitting diodes (LED's), laser systems and hetero-junction solar cells etc, also due to its non toxicity and abundance. ZnO has a band gap value of 3.42 eV at 300 K, and as a result of oxygen deficiency and/or zinc interstitials shows intrinsic n-type conductivity. Its corresponding crystalline structure is hexagonal wurtzite type with lattice constants c=5.205 Å and a=3.249 Å.Thin films of ZnO have been deposited by using several deposition techniques, such as spray pyrolysis (SP), vacuum evaporation, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), chemical bath, magnetron sputtering, and pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The spray pyrolysis is one of the attractive techniques for film deposition because of low equipment cost, simple and safe technique, non vacuum requirement, low temperature processing, and the possibility of preparing large area. Also, the thin films by spray pyrolysis technique have good homogeneity.In order to obtain high conductive and transparent ZnO thin films, impurities from Group III are commonly added. Among these elements only Indium has been proved successful over the rest of Group III elements, as ZnO:In thin films with resistivity values of the order of 4×10−3 Ω .cm . It is worthy to mention that among all the III Group, Al is a cheap, abundant and non-toxic material and can be an ideal candidate in replacing In if optimization of the process deposition can be reached.
2015
M.Sc
Ain Shams
Faculty of Girls for Art Science