Recent eort for the realization of exible displays demands transparent oxide semiconductor materials, which exhibits the higher transparency near the visible region and mobility (> 10 cm2/Vs) than currently available Si-based
display materials. Amo...
Recent eort for the realization of exible displays demands transparent oxide semiconductor materials, which exhibits the higher transparency near the visible region and mobility (> 10 cm2/Vs) than currently available Si-based
display materials. Among them InGaZnO4 is one of the prominent candidate materials for the potential applications such as head-mounted-display, liquid crystal display, plasma display panel, e-paper and etc. In this thesis,
we report the growth temperature dependent characteristics of InGaZnO4 thin lm using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ultra violet visible near infrared(UV-VIS-NIR), x-ray diraction (XRD), and field emission-scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM).
The lms were deposited on to Al2O3 (0001) substrates
using pulsed laser deposition for various deposition temperatures. Based on XRD and FE-SEM observation,
as growth temperature increased, the crystal structure changed from amorphous to polycrystalline even though there were no noticeable chemical structure changes from XPS measurement. On the other hand, the resistance for the polycrystalline films is higher than that of amorphous films, which could be attributed to the grain boundary
scattering. The mobility of the lms also decreased as the growth temperature increased while the carrier concentration increased. It had been reported that
the increase of carrier concentration was associated with the increase of band gap energy due to Burstein-Moss effect. The observed optical band gap from
UV-VIS-NIR measurements conrmed that the increase of band bap as growth temperature increased.