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Polyol synthesized aluminum doped zinc oxide nanoparticles - influence of the hydration ratio on crystal growth, dopant incorporation and electrical properties

  • 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.

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Author of HS ReutlingenTextor, Torsten
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-15607
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2017.09.196
ISSN:2214-7853
Erschienen in:Materials Today : Proceedings
Publisher:Elsevier
Place of publication:Amsterdam
Editor:Stephan Barcikowski
Document Type:Journal article
Language:English
Publication year:2017
Tag:27Al-NMR; AZO; aluminum zinc oxide; conductivity; crystal growth; nanoparticles; polyol process
Volume:4
Issue:Supplement 2
Page Number:10
First Page:S253
Last Page:S262
DDC classes:600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
Open access?:Ja
Licence (German):License Logo  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International