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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2019 Rakesh A. Afre, et al., published by Sciendo
- ISSN
- 1605-8127
- eISSN
- 1605-8127
- DOI
- 10.1515/rams-2018-0006
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AbstractThis review encompasses properties and applications of polycrystalline or amorphous, Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCO) semiconductors. Coexistence of electrical conductivity and optical transparency in TCO depends on the nature, number and atomic arrangements of metal cations in oxides, on the resident morphology and presence of intrinsic or introduced defects. Therefore, TCO semiconductors that are impurity-doped as well as the ternary compounds and multi-component oxides consisting of combinations are discussed. Expanding use of TCO is endangered by scarcity, cost of In, fragility of glass, limited transparency to visible light, instability above >200 °C, non-flexible for application of flexible solar cell; thus driving search for alternatives such as graphene or CNT, that are more stable under acidic, alkaline, oxidizing, reducing and elevated temperature. There are reasons to conclude that there is need to develop large area deposition techniques to produce TCO films with high deposition rate. TCOs are mostly n-type semiconductors, but p-type are also being researched
Journal
REVIEWS ON ADVANCED MATERIALS SCIENCE – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 2018