Fabrication of transparent conductive aluminum zinc oxide nanostructured thin film on polycarbonate substrate for heat mirror applications

Abstract

In this work an aluminum zinc oxide nanostructure thin film was deposited on polycarbonate polymer substrates using a magnetron sputtering technique. X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy methods were used to investigate the structure, morphology and surface composition of the thin film. The transmittance and reflectance of the aluminum zinc oxide thin film was investigated by a UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer. The sheet resistance of the aluminum zinc oxide thin film was measured by the four point probe method. The average reflectance in the near infrared region and the sheet resistance of the aluminum zinc oxide thin film were 30% and 105 Ω/sq, which encourages the heat mirror of the aluminum zinc oxide thin film.

Flexible transparent projection screen of polycarbonate matrix integrated with functionalized alumina particles

“…Among the currently active researches in developing composite films, there are mainly two approaches to prepare transparent composites. 25,29,[31][32][33][34][35][36] One is to synthesize directly composite materials by blending particles with polymer or monomer solution. However, it is difficult to realize uniform particle dispersion adopting this approach.…”