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A Study on the High Quality and Low Cost Fabrication Technology of ZnO Thin Films for Solar Cell Applications

태양전지 응용을 위한 고품위 및 저가격 ZnO 박막 제조에 관한 연구

  • 이재형 (군산대학교 전자정보공학부)
  • Published : 2010.01.30
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Abstract

Aluminum doped zinc oxide (AZO) films have been prepared on Coming 7059 glass substrates by r.f. magnetron sputtering method. A powder target instead of a conventional sintered ceramic target was used in order to improve the utilization efficiency of the target and reduce the cost of the film deposition process. The influence of sputter pressure on the structural, electrical, and optical properties of AZO films were studied. The AZO films had hexagonal wurtzite structure with a preferred c-axis orientation, regardless of sputter pressure and target types. The crystallinity and degree of orientation was increased by increasing the sputter pressure. For higher sputtering pressures, a reduction of the resistivity was observed due to a increase on the mobility and the carrier concentration. The lowest resistivity of $6.5{\times}10^{-3}\;{\Omega}-cm$ and the average transmittance of 80% can be obtained for films deposited at 15 mTorr.

본 연구에서는 타겟 제작에 드는 비용을 줄이고, 타겟 이용의 효율성을 높이기 위해 기존의 소결된 세라믹 타겟 대신 분말 타겟으로 사용하여 알루미늄 도핑된 산화아연(Aluminum doped zinc oxde; AZO)박막을 마그네트론 스퍼터법에 의해 제조하고, 스퍼터 압력에 따른 박막 물성을 조사하였다. 유리 기판에 증착된 AZO 박막은 타깃 종류 및 스퍼터 압력에 관계없이 기판에 수직한 c-축 방향으로 우선 성장방위를 갖는 hexagonal 구조로 성장되었다. 스퍼터 압력이 증가함에 따라 이 면 방향으로의 결정성장이 촉진되었다. AZO 박막의 전기적, 광학적 특성은 스퍼터 압력 증가에 따라 향상되었으며, 15 mTorr에서 $6.5{\times}10^{-1}\;{\Omega}-cm$의 최소의 비저항 값을 나타내었다.

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