Investigation of ZnO/Al/ZnO multilayers as transparent conducting coatings

M. F. Al-Kuhaili; M. A. Al-Maghrabi; S. M.A. Durrani; I. A. Bakhtiari

doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/21/215302

Investigation of ZnO/Al/ZnO multilayers as transparent conducting coatings

M. F. Al-Kuhaili, M. A. Al-Maghrabi, S. M.A. Durrani, I. A. Bakhtiari

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Multilayer ZnO/Al/ZnO coatings were deposited by thermal evaporation on unheated substrates. Subsequently, the coatings were annealed in air in the temperature range 300-600 °C. The structural properties of the films were investigated using x-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy. The chemical properties were determined from x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy along with elemental depth profiling. The electrical and optical properties of the coatings were studied in order to evaluate their performance as transparent conducting coatings. The best performance was obtained with films annealed at 300 °C, for which the average visible transmittance was 75% and the resistivity was 2.9 × 10^-3 Ω cm.

Original language	English
Article number	215302
Journal	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume	41
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/41/21/215302
State	Published - 7 Nov 2008

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Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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