A wet chemical preparation of transparent conducting thin films of Al-doped ZnO nanoparticles |
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Authors: | Konstantin Tarasov Olivier Raccurt |
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Institution: | 1.Laboratoire de nano-Chimie et de Sécurité des Nano-Matériaux, Département de Technologies des Nano-Matériaux,LITEN, CEA Grenoble,Grenoble Cedex 9,France |
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Abstract: | A wet chemical deposition method for preparing transparent conductive thin films on the base of Al-doped ZnO (AZO) nanoparticles
has been demonstrated. AZO nanoparticles with a size of 7 nm have been synthesised by a simple precipitation method in refluxed
conditions in ethanol using zinc acetate and Al-isopropylate. The presence of Al in ZnO was revealed by the EDX elemental
analysis (1.8 at.%) and UV–Vis spectroscopy (a blue shift due to Burstein–Moss effect). The obtained colloid solution with
the AZO nanoparticles was used for preparing by spin-coating thin films on glass substrates. The film demonstrated excellent
homogeneity and transparency (T > 90%) in the visible spectrum after heating at 400 °C. Its resistivity turned to be excessively high (ρ = 2.6 Ω cm) that
we ascribe to a poor charge percolation due to a high film porosity revealed by SEM observations. To improve the percolation
via reducing the porosity, a sol–gel solution was deposited “layer-by-layer” in alternation with layers derived from the AZO
colloid followed by heating. As it was shown by optical spectroscopy measurements, the density of thus prepared film was increased
more than twice leading to a significant decrease in resistivity to 1.3 × 10−2 Ω cm. |
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