Surface origin of high conductivities in undoped In 2O 3 thin films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lany, S ^a   Zakutayev, A ^a   Mason, T O ^b   Wager, J F ^c   Poeppelmeier, K R ^b   Perkins, J D ^a   Berry, J J ^a   Ginley, D S ^a   Zunger, A ^d  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DEFECTS; BULK SAMPLES; DEFECT MECHANISMS; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; HALL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; ZNO;

HYDROGEN; INDIUM; POINT DEFECTS; STOICHIOMETRY; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 84855507333     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.016802     Document Type: Article

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