Role of oxygen desorption during vacuum annealing in the improvement of electrical properties of aluminum doped zinc oxide films synthesized by sol gel method

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Zhu, Mingwei ^a   Huang, Hui ^a   Gong, Jun ^a   Sun, Chao ^a   Jiang, Xin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISORPTION; COOLING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; VISIBILITY; ZINC OXIDE;

OXYGEN DESORPTION; VACUUM ANNEALING;

VACUUM DEPOSITION;

EID: 34548460741     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2772591     Document Type: Article

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