A study on the Al doping behavior with sol aging time and its effect on structural and optical properties of sol-gel prepared ZnO thin films

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 534, Issue , 2013, Pages 242-248

  Shahzad, M Babar ^a   Qi, Yang ^a,b   Lu, Hong ^a   Wang, Xiandi ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum doped zinc oxide; Intrinsic stress; Optical band gap; Precursor aging; Sol gel deposition; Thin films; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM-DOPED ZINC OXIDE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; INTRINSIC STRESS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE ANALYSIS; SOL-GEL DEPOSITION; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEPOSITION; FILM PREPARATION; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTRONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; VAPOR DEPOSITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC OXIDE;

SOL-GELS;

EID: 84876685567     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2013.02.126     Document Type: Article

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