Effect of excimer laser annealing on the properties of ZnO thin film prepared by sol-gel method

Kyoungwon Kim; Sangsig Kim; Sang Yeol Lee

doi:10.1016/j.cap.2011.09.006

Effect of excimer laser annealing on the properties of ZnO thin film prepared by sol-gel method

Kyoungwon Kim, Sangsig Kim, Sang Yeol Lee

School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Pristine ZnO thin films have been deposited with zinc acetate [Zn(CH ₃COO)₂], mono-ethanolamine (stabilizer), and isopropanol solutions by sol-gel method. After deposition, pristine ZnO thin films have been irradiated by excimer laser (λ = 248, KrF) source with energy density of 50 mJ/cm² for 30 sec. The effect of excimer laser annealing on the optical and structural properties of ZnO thin films are investigated by photoluminescence and field emission scanning electron microscope. As-grown ZnO thin films show a huge peak of visible region and a wide full width at half maximum (FWHM) of UV region due to low quality with amorphous ZnO thin films. After KrF excimer laser annealing, ZnO thin films show intense near-band-edge (NBE) emission and weak deep-level emission. The optically improved pristine ZnO thin films have demonstrated that excimer laser annealing is novel treatment process at room temperature.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	585-588
Number of pages	4
Journal	Current Applied Physics
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2011.09.006
Publication status	Published - 2012 Mar 1

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Keywords

Excimer laser
Laser annealing
ZnO

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Kim, K., Kim, S., & Lee, S. Y. (2012). Effect of excimer laser annealing on the properties of ZnO thin film prepared by sol-gel method. Current Applied Physics, 12(2), 585-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2011.09.006

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