Semiconductor WO3 thin films deposited by pulsed reactive magnetron sputtering

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378271:_____/25:00600482 RIV/61989592:15310/25:73631315

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369800124009302?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369800124009302?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2024.109034" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.mssp.2024.109034</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Semiconductor WO3 thin films deposited by pulsed reactive magnetron sputtering

Original language description

A pulsed reactive magnetron sputtering system with a tungsten target and a gas mixture of argon and oxygen was investigated as a source for the deposition of semiconductor WO3 thin films on soda lime glass substrates and on the glass with transparent conductive SnO2:F (FTO) electrode. The reactive sputtering process was performed in HiPIMS mode with low pulse repetition frequency fp ti 50-100 Hz and short pulse duration in HiPIMS discharge Ton = 100 mu s. The second mode investigated was the mid-frequency (MF) magnetron discharge with pulse frequency fp = 40 kHz and pulse length Ton = 15 mu s. The plasma parameters were investigated for both HiPIMS and MF modes using the planar RF probe operating at the frequency fprobe = 350 kHz and the grid QCM with biased collector electrode. Ion density ni and tail electron temperature (Te) were determined in both pulsed reactive magnetron sputtering discharge modes with time resolution. The maximum value ni ti 5 center dot 1017 m- 3 was found in the reactive HiPIMS mode, and the maximum value ni ti 7 center dot 1016 m-3 was found in the reactive MF (40 kHz) mode. The degree of ionization of sputtered particles in reactive HiPIMS was determined for different values of (QO2) and was found to be in the range of ri ti 0.1-0.3. The deposition rate determined by QCM in reactive HiPIMS was practically independent on (QO2), but in the case of reactive MF, the measured deposition rate decreased significantly with increasing (QO2). The WO3 films deposited in both modes have a predominantly monoclinic crystal structure. The light and dark conductivity and the light/dark conductivity ratio (Ld) were measured under dark conditions and UV light illumination. At higher (QO2), the maximum value of Ld ti 300 was found for MF deposited WO3 and the maximum value of Ld ti 30 was found for HiPIMS deposited WO3. The photoelectrochemical measurement of WO3 deposited on FTO electrodes confirmed the n-type conductivity, and these films functioned as photoanodes in photoelectrochemical cells. MF deposited WO3 films systematically exhibited slightly higher photocurrents than HiPIMS deposited WO3. It was shown that these optimum photocurrents for HiPIMS and MF were found at QO2 ti 80 sccm and could not be improved by further increasing of (QO2).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10403 - Physical chemistry

Project

<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004596" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004596: Sensors and Detectors for Future Information Society</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing

ISSN

1369-8001

e-ISSN

1873-4081

Volume of the periodical

186

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 2025

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

109034

UT code for WoS article

001350360100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85207696642