{"id":1216,"date":"2013-07-25T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T18:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2013-07-25T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T18:27:16","slug":"utilization-of-doped-zno-and-related-materials-systems-for-transparent-conducting-electrodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/utilization-of-doped-zno-and-related-materials-systems-for-transparent-conducting-electrodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Utilization of Doped-ZnO and Related Materials Systems for Transparent Conducting Electrodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efficient transparent electrode materials are vital for applications in smart window, LED display, and solar cell technologies.\u00a0 These materials must possess a wide band gap for minimal optical absorption in the visible spectrum while maintaining a high electrical conductivity.\u00a0 Currently, tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) is the industry standard for transparent electrodes, but limitations in both deposition temperature and use of the rare element indium has led to a search for better material alternatives.\u00a0 Doped ZnO represents one of the most promising alternatives, but the mechanisms by which processing conditions and defect chemistry affect the final material properties are not well understood.\u00a0 Reported values of the electrical conductivity for doped ZnO span orders of magnitude for seemingly similar processing conditions performed by different experimental groups.\u00a0 This work seeks to better understand the relationships between processing, defect chemistry, and material properties through <i>in situ<\/i> and <i>ex situ<\/i> optical and electrical investigation of doped ZnO, deposited by pulsed laser deposition and magnetron sputtering methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efficient transparent electrode materials are vital for applications in smart window, LED display, and solar cell technologies.\u00a0 These materials must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5532],"tags":[70,12671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}