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MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
Volume 3, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/3/12/126402
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ZnO; ALD; SEM; AFM; XRD
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- OU Gallogly College of Engineering
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The work reports experimental studies of ZnO thin films grown on Si(100) wafers using a customized thermal atomic layer deposition. The impact of growth parameters including H2O/DiethylZinc (DEZn) dose ratio, background pressure, and temperature are investigated. The imaging results of scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy reveal that the dose ratio is critical to the surface morphology. To achieve high uniformity, the H2O dose amount needs to be at least twice that of DEZn per each cycle. If the background pressure drops below 400 mTorr, a large amount of nanoflower-like ZnO grains would emerge and increase surface roughness significantly. In addition, the growth temperature range between 200 degrees C and 250 degrees C is found to be the optimal growth window. And the crystal structures and orientations are also strongly correlated to the temperature as proved by electron back-scattering diffraction and x-ray diffraction results.
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