Misfit layered Ca3Co4O9 as a high figure of merit p-type transparent conducting oxide film through solution processing

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Aksit, M ^a   Kolli, S K ^a   Slauch, I M ^a   Robinson, R D ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; OXIDE FILMS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; VAPORS;

FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); NEAR INFRARED REGION; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE FILMS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVITY;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84900308027     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871506     Document Type: Article

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