Cathodoluminescence properties of undoped and Al-doped ZnO thin films deposited on glass substrate by spray pyrolysis

Influence of the aluminum incorporation on the properties of electrodeposited ZnO thin films

“…Al-doped ZnO thin films have been synthesized by a variety of processes, including chemical spray technique [26], pulsed laser deposition technique [27], sol-gel dip-coating [28], reactive DC and RF sputtering [29] and electrochemical deposition (ECD) [30][31][32]. Among these methods, electrochemical deposition has the advantage of simplicity and ease of application for large area solar cells.…”

Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of ZnO

“…ZnO thin films have been grown using molecular beam epitaxy [10], magnetron sputtering [7], pulsed laser deposition [11,12], and spray pyrolysis [13]. Recently, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) has gained popularity as a method to grow high-quality ZnO thin films [14,15].…”

Preparation and characterization of highly transparent and conductive indium-zinc oxide thin films deposited by pyrolysis spray technique

“…Most of their problems are caused by their intrinsic properties and the preparation method. On the other hand, ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) which is the representative material of transparent and conductive oxides (because it's innocuous material manifesting high transparency (90 %) and resistivity of the order of 10 -4 X cm) is composed mainly with Indium which is rare and expensive that alternative materials are required (Wang et al 1996;Ueda et al 1992;Minami et al 1995a, b, c;El Hichou et al 2004;Kawazoe et al 1997). To obtain a TCO film with high performances and low cost, new materials consisting of ternary compounds and/or multi-component oxides have recently attracted much attention (Minami et al 1995a(Minami et al , b, c, 1996a.…”

“…In addition, multi-component oxides may have properties suitable for specialized applications, as a result of changes in the physical properties obtained by controlling the composition of materials composed of binary and/or ternary compounds. Numerous studies on various combinations of indium-, tin-, or zinc-oxide with gallium-, magnesium-, cadmium-, and aluminiumoxide have been reported (Wang et al 1996;Ueda et al 1992;Minami et al 1995aMinami et al , b, c, 1996aEl Hichou et al 2004;Kawazoe et al 1997;Bartolomé et al 2013;Buchholz and Proffit 2012, 4-13). In particular, the indium-zinc oxide system has attracted considerable attention as promising materials for transparent conducting films.…”