Cupric oxide-based p-type transparent conductors
conference contribution
posted on 2018-09-24, 10:23 authored by Patrick Isherwood, Michael WallsMichael WallsThis study examines the impact of doping on the resistivity of sputtered cupric oxide (CuO), and investigates the effects of co-sputtering CuO with tin dioxide (SnO2). It was found that films sputtered from a 2 at. % sodium-doped target have resistivities of four orders of magnitude lower than equivalent undoped films. Addition of oxygen was found to reduce the resistivity further. The best films were found to have resistivities of 4.3x10-2 Ω.cm. Co-sputtering with SnO2 was found to increase the band gap significantly, although it also caused an increase in the resistivity. All mixed oxide films were both amorphous and p-type.
Funding
The authors would like to acknowledge funding for the work through the EPSRC Supergen Supersolar Hub.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Energy ProcediaVolume
60Pages
129 - 134Citation
ISHERWOOD, P.J.M. and WALLS, M., 2014. Cupric oxide-based p-type transparent conductors. Energy Procedia, 60, pp.129-134.Publisher
Elsevier © The AuthorsVersion
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2014Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. This paper was also presented at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2014 Symposium Y “Advanced materials and characterization techniques for solar cells II”, 26-30 May 2014, Lille, France.ISSN
1876-6102Publisher version
Language
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