Sol-gel processing of highly transparent conducting Cd2SnO4 thin films.

Autor: Bel-Hadj-Tahar, Radhouane, Bel-Hadj-Tahar, Noureddine, Mohamed, Abdellatif Belhadj
Zdroj: European Physical Journal - Applied Physics; Mar2015, Vol. 69 Issue 3, p30302-p1-30302-p6, 6p
Abstrakt: Polycrystalline thin films of cadmium stannate (Cd2SnO4) (CTO) were coated on corning glass substrates by sol-gel method. The films were fired at different temperatures and annealed in inert ambient (N2) at 680 °C. The structural, optical, and electrical properties of dip-coated cadmium-tin-oxide (CTO) thin films are discussed. CTO layers with a Hall mobility of 30 cm2/Vs and a carrier density of 1.4 × 1021 cm-3 resulting in a resistivity of 5 × 10-4 Ω cm have been deposited. Dip-coating conditions must be carefully monitored to produce consistent films. The high electronic conductivity is due to two effective mechanisms of n-type doping: (i) stoichiometric deviation and (ii) self-doping. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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