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PHYSICA B-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 403, Issue 17, Pages 2807-2810Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physb.2008.02.016
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ZnO; metal-semiconductor transition; spray pyrolysis
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ZnO films were deposited on glass substrate by using spray pyrolysis method. Films were deposited at different solution molarities 0.02 and 0.1 M. The films are highly transparent in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum with a transmission reaching up values to 90%. Band gaps were calculated as 3.24 and 3.28 eV with the help of transmission spectrums. When the solution molarity of the sprayed solution is increased from 0.02 to 0.1 M, carrier concentrations of the films increase from 1.6 x 10(19) cm(-3) to 5.1 x 10(19) cm(-3). Temperature-dependent conductivity measurements of these conducting and transparent films also showed, for the first time, a metal-semiconductor transition (MST). The deposited ZnO films show metallic conductivity above similar to 420 K and semiconducting behavior at temperatures below it. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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