Room temperature crystallization of indium tin oxide films on glass and polyethylene terephthalate substrates using rf plasma
Autor: | M. Suzuki, Y. Shibayama, Akira Kinbara, Takayuki Watanabe, Hisashi Ohsaki |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
Předmět: |
Materials science
chemistry.chemical_element Surfaces and Interfaces Condensed Matter Physics digestive system Surfaces Coatings and Films law.invention Amorphous solid Indium tin oxide Surface coating chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Chemical engineering law Sputtering Polyethylene terephthalate Organic chemistry Crystallization Thin film Indium |
Zdroj: | Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 25:1052-1055 |
ISSN: | 1520-8559 0734-2101 |
DOI: | 10.1116/1.2748807 |
Popis: | The crystallization of amorphous indium tin oxide (ITO) films was achieved by rf (13.56MHz) plasma treatment. Although the films were crystallized after 2min, the sample temperature was lower than 90°C without compulsory cooling even after 10min of treatment and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates had no damage. Plasma-crystallized sputtered ITO films have a bixbite structure and the resistivity reached to 1.6×10−4Ω∙cm. ITO thin films have almost the same resistivity in both cases of PET and glass substrates used and plasma-treated PET ITO films have a bit higher resistivity than that of glass ITO films, while mass spectroscopy measurements indicated that ITO films deposited on PET substrates are expected to include no apparent gas species ejected from PET substrate. It was found that the plasma gas pressure is the key parameter for the effective crystallization and the appropriate gas pressure depends on the plasma gas species. |
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