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Surface Origin of High Conductivities in Undoped In2O3 Thin Films Público Deposited

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  • The microscopic cause of conductivity in transparent conducting oxides like ZnO, In₂O₃, and SnO₂ is generally considered to be a point defect mechanism in the bulk, involving intrinsic lattice defects, extrinsic dopants, or unintentional impurities like hydrogen. We confirm here that the defect theory for O-vacancies can quantitatively account for the rather moderate conductivity and off-stoichiometry observed in bulk In₂O₃ samples under high-temperature equilibrium conditions. However, nominally undoped thin-films of In₂O₃ can exhibit surprisingly high conductivities exceeding by 4-5 orders of magnitude that of bulk samples under identical conditions (temperature and O₂ partial pressure). Employing surface calculations and thickness-dependent Hall measurements, we demonstrate that surface donors rather than bulk defects dominate the conductivity of In₂O₃ thin films.
  • Keywords: Single crystals, Indium oxide, Electrical properties
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  • Lany, S., Zakutayev, A., Mason, T. O., Wager, J. F., Poeppelmeier, K. R., Perkins, J. D., . . . . (2012). Surface origin of high conductivities in undoped In2O3 thin films. Lany, S., Zakutayev, A., Mason, T. O., Wager, J. F., Poeppelmeier, K. R., Perkins, J. D., . . . . (2012). Surface origin of high conductivities in undoped In2O3 thin films. Physical Review Letters, 108(1), 016802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.016802, 108(1), 016802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.016802
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  • 108
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  • This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 to NREL.
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