In:
Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 9, No. 1 ( 2019-12-17)
Abstract:
The variation in energy bandgaps of amorphous oxide semiconducting SiZnSnO (a-SZTO) has been investigated by controlling the oxygen partial pressure ( O p ). The systematic change in O p during deposition has been used to control the electrical characteristics and energy bandgap of a-SZTO. As O p increased, the electrical properties degraded, while the energy bandgap increased systematically. This is mainly due to the change in the oxygen vacancy inside the a-SZTO thin film by controlling O p . Changes in oxygen vacancies have been observed by using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and investigated by analyzing the variation in density of states (DOS) inside the energy bandgaps. In addition, energy bandgap parameters, such as valence band level, Fermi level, and energy bandgap, were extracted by using ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy, Kelvin probe force microscopy, and high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. As a result, it was confirmed that the difference between the conduction band minimum and the Fermi level in the energy bandgap increased systematically as O p increases. This shows good agreement with the measured results of XPS and DOS analyses.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2045-2322
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-019-55807-2
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2019
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2615211-3
