Effect of fluorine doping on the electrical and optical properties of spray pyrolyzed tin oxide films

Authors

Laureen Ida Ballesteros ⋅ PH Material Science and Engineering Program, University of the Philippines Diliman
Christopher Jude Vergara ⋅ PH Material Science and Engineering Program, University of the Philippines Diliman
Abegail Santillan ⋅ PH Advanced Device and Materials Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL), Department of Science and Technology
Cesar Bandoquillo ⋅ PH Advanced Device and Materials Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL), Department of Science and Technology
Kim Christopher Aganda ⋅ PH Advanced Device and Materials Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL), Department of Science and Technology
Armando Somintac ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Transparent and conducting fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) films were deposited on glass substrates at 300°C using nebulized spray pyrolysis. The fluorine concentration in the precursor solution was varied from 0 to 40 at.%. UV-Visible spectroscopy, Hall effect measurement, EDX, SEM and ToF-SIMS were employed to investigate the optoelectronic properties of the film. Among the samples prepared, the highest average transmittance in the visible range (77.42%) and the lowest electrical resistivity (4.63 x 10^-4 Ω-cm) was obtained from the tin oxide film doped with 40 at.%F in solution. The SEM images showed that the as-deposited FTO film's surface consist of non-uniform grains with agglomerates of crystallites. The EDX and ToF-SIMS spectra confirmed the presence of the fluorine dopant in the tin oxide lattice. Depth profiling studies, carried out for the first time showed that fluorine distribution in the FTO-40 at.% film was constant up to 300nm from the surface confirming the effectiveness of the spray pyrolysis technique in doping tin oxide thin films. These results suggest the potential application of the film as a TCO layer for optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices.

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Issue

2017: Proceedings of the 35th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Conference

Article ID

SPP-2017-PA-42

Section

Poster Session A (Materials Science, Instrumentation, and Photonics)

Published

2017-06-07

How to Cite

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LI Ballesteros, CJ Vergara, A Santillan, C Bandoquillo, KC Aganda, and A Somintac, Effect of fluorine doping on the electrical and optical properties of spray pyrolyzed tin oxide films, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 35, SPP-2017-PA-42 (2017). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/272.