Nano Express
Indium tin oxide exhibiting high poly-crystallinity on oxygen plasma-treated polyethylene terephthalate surface
1 Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information & Electronics, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea
3 Regional Innovation Center-Components and Materials for Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, 446-701, Republic of Korea
Nanoscale Research Letters 2012, 7:118 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-7-118
Published: 13 February 2012Abstract
Low-resistivity indium tin oxide [ITO] film was successfully deposited on oxygen plasma-treated polyethylene terephthalate [PET] surfaces at room temperature. X-ray diffraction [XRD] measurements demonstrated that the film deposited on the PET surface that had not been treated with oxygen plasma had an amorphous structure. In contrast, after the low-power oxygen plasma treatment of the PET surface, the ITO film deposited on the PET surface had a poly-crystalline structure due to interactions between electric dipoles on the PET surface and electric dipoles in the ITO film. The minimum resistivity of the poly-crystalline ITO was about 3.6 times lower than that of the amorphous ITO film. In addition, we found that the resistivity of ITO film is proportional to the intensity of the (400) line in the film's XRD spectra.
