Physical properties of erbium implanted tungsten oxide films deposited by reactive dual magnetron sputtering

Date Published
05/2007
Publication Type
Journal Article
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DOI
10.1016/j.tsf.2006.12.179
LBL Report Number
LBNL-62248
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Amorphous and partially crystalline WO3 thin films were prepared by reactive dual magnetron sputtering and successively implanted by erbium ions with a fluence in the range from 7.7 x 1014 to 5 x 1015 ions/cm2. The electrical and optical properties were studied as a function of the film deposition parameters and the ion fluence. Ion implantation caused a strong decrease of the resistivity, a moderate decrease of the index of refraction and a moderate increase of the extinction coefficient in the visible and near infrared, while the optical band gap remained almost unchanged. These effects could be largely ascribed to ion-induced oxygen deficiency. When annealed in air, the already low resistivities of the implanted samples decreased further up to 70°C, whereas oxidation, and hence a strong increase of the resistivity, was observed at higher annealing temperatures

Journal
Thin Solid Films
Volume
515
Year of Publication
2007
Issue
13
Number
8
Pagination
5264-5269
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