TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Straube, Thomas
A1  - Linders, Jürgen
A1  - Mayer-Gall, Thomas
A1  - Textor, Torsten
A1  - Mayer, Christian
A1  - Gutmann, Jochen
ED  - Barcikowski, Stephan
T1  - Polyol synthesized aluminum doped zinc oxide nanoparticles - influence of the hydration ratio on crystal growth, dopant incorporation and electrical properties
JF  - Materials Today : Proceedings
N2  - The wet chemical deposition of solution processed transparent conducting oxides (TCO) provides an alternative low cost and economical deposition technique to realize large-areas of conducting films. Since the price for the most common TCO Indium Tin Oxide rises enormously, Aluminum Zinc Oxide (AZO) as alternative TCO reaches more and more interest. The optoelectronical properties of nanoparticle coatings strongly depend beneath the porosity of the coating on the shape and size of the used particles. By using bigger or rod-shaped particles it is possible to minimize the amount of grain boundaries resulting in an improvement of the electrical properties, whereas particles bigger than 100 nm should not be used if highly transparent coatings are necessary as these big particles scatter the visible light and lower the transmittance of the coatings. In this work we present a simple method to synthesize AZO particles with different shape and size, but comparable electronical properties. We use a simple, well reproducible polyol method for synthesis and influence the shape and size of the particles by adding different amounts of water to the precursor solution. We can show that the addition of aluminum as dopant strongly hinders the crystal growth but the addition of water counteracts this, so that both, spherical and rod-shaped particles can be obtained.
KW  - aluminum zinc oxide
KW  - AZO
KW  - nanoparticles
KW  - polyol process
KW  - 27Al-NMR
KW  - crystal growth
KW  - conductivity
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-15607
SN  - 2214-7853
SS  - 2214-7853
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.09.196
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.09.196
VL  - 4
IS  - Supplement 2
SP  - S253
EP  - S262
S1  - 10
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -