Synthesis of high-transmittance zinc oxide by oxidation of evaporated zinc films

Abstract

ZnO films were prepared on glass substrates by two different methods. One is a spin-coating method followed by annealing in oxygen gas. The other is an evaporation of zinc metal followed by oxidation. The crystal structure was characterized by X-ray diffraction. The optical transmittance was recorded by a spectrophotometer in the visible range (400-800nm). It was found that the normalized optical transmittances of the ZnO films prepared using vacuum evaporation method were over 90% which were much larger than those of the films using spin-coating method.