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Mobility Analysis of Highly Conducting Thin Films: Application to ZnO
Applied Physics Letters
  • David C. Look, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • K. D. Leedy
  • D. H. Tomich
  • B. Bayraktaroglu
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2010
Abstract

Hall-effect measurements have been performed on a series of highly conductive thin films of Ga-doped ZnO grown by pulsed laser deposition and annealed in a forming-gas atmosphere (5% H2 in Ar). The mobility as a function of thickness d is analyzed by a simple formula involving only ionized-impurity and boundary scattering and having a single fitting parameter, the acceptor/donor concentration ratio K = NA/ND. For samples with d = 3–100 nm, Kavg = 0.41, giving ND = 4.7×1020 and NA = 1.9×1020 cm−3. Thicker samples require a two-layer formulation due to inhomogeneous annealing.

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Copyright © 2010, American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 96.6, and may be found at http://apl.aip.org/resource/1/applab/v96/i6/p062102_s1

DOI
10.1063/1.3310043
Citation Information
David C. Look, K. D. Leedy, D. H. Tomich and B. Bayraktaroglu. "Mobility Analysis of Highly Conducting Thin Films: Application to ZnO" Applied Physics Letters Vol. 96 Iss. 6 (2010) ISSN: 0003-6951
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