Pulsed laser deposition of indium tin oxide films on flexible polyethylene naphthalate display substrates at room temperature

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• 作者：Konstantinos A. Sierros ; Darran R. Cairns ; J. Stuart Abell ; Stephen N. Kukureka
• 关键词：Flexible devices ; Polyethylene naphthalate ; Indium tin oxide
• 刊名：Thin Solid Films
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：1 March 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：518
• 期：10
• 页码：2623-2627
• 全文大小：435 K

文摘

Pulsed laser deposition was used to deposit high-quality indium tin oxide (ITO) thin solid films on polyethylene napthalate (PEN) flexible display substrates. The electrical, optical, microstructural, mechanical and adhesive properties of the functional thin layer were investigated as a function of a narrow range of background oxygen gas pressure at room temperature, which is the most desirable thermal condition for growing transparent conducting oxides on flexible display polymer substrates. ITO films (240 ± 35 nm thick) deposited on PEN at room temperature in the range of 0.33 to 2.66 Pa background oxygen pressure are observed to exhibit low electrical resistivity (~ 10^− 4 Ω cm) and high optical transmission (~ 90 % ). Electromechanical uniaxial tensile testing, of the hybrid thin structures, results in crack onset nominal strains of around 2 % . The ITO surface adhesion reaches a maximum at 1.33 Pa deposition pressure.