https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap/2018170369
Regular Article
Effect of Ag incorporation on the electrical and optical properties of AZO/Ag/AZO multilayer transparent conducting electrode
1
Department of Physics, SSN College of Engineering,
Kalavakkam, India
2
SSN Research Center, SSN College of Engineering,
Kalavakkam, India
* e-mail: balajibhargavp@ssn.edu.in
Received:
28
October
2017
Received in final form:
18
May
2018
Accepted:
20
June
2018
Published online: 3 August 2018
Silver (Ag) incorporated aluminium doped zinc oxide (AZO) based multilayer films were fabricated for transparent conducting electrode applications. AZO and Ag thin film layers were deposited using direct current magnetron sputtering system without breaking the vacuum. By carefully optimizing the thickness of the metal layer, the minimum sheet resistance of 6 Ω/square was achieved with 70% of transmission in the visible wavelength region. The surface morphology of the film was studied with atomic force microscope mapping in 5 µm × 5 µm area of the multilayer structure. The significance of the Ag layer thickness in determining the electrical and optical properties of the multilayer film was investigated.
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