Electrical Properties of Thin In2O3/C Films

Autor: I. V. Babkina, A. V. Sitnikov, V. A. Makagonov, Yu. E. Kalinin, O. V. Zhilova, M. N. Volochaev, S. Yu. Pankov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Inorganic Materials. 56:374-381
ISSN: 1608-3172
0020-1685
DOI: 10.1134/s0020168520040019
Popis: We have studied the structure and electrical properties of thin films based on the In2O3 semiconductor and carbon, grown by atomic layer deposition using ion-beam sputtering. The structure of the resultant materials, formed during layer-by-layer growth of island layers, is made up of nanocrystalline In2O3 granules distributed at random over amorphous carbon. The electrical transport properties of the In2O3/C thin films depend on their thickness. In the temperature range 80–300 K, the dominant electrical transport mechanism in the In2O3/C thin films of thickness h 70 nm undergo a change from conduction associated with strong carrier localization to that due to the presence of percolation clusters formed by In2O3 nanocrystals, which shows up as a linear temperature dependence of conductivity, with a negative temperature coefficient.
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