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The effect of annealing temperature on the characterization of Al/PbTe films

HUIFEN LU1, WENTIAN CAO1,* , SHUYUN WANG1, WEI REN1, HAO ZHUANG1

Affiliation

  1. College of Physics and Electronic, Shandong Normal University, 250014 Jinan, PR China

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to study the effect of annealing temperature on the characterization of Al/PbTe films. The Al/PbTe films were prepared by RF magnetron sputtering and then annealed in the vacuum resistance furnace at different temperatures. The thicknesses of Al and PbTe are 20 nm and 300 nm respectively. Effect of annealing temperature on the characteristics of Al/PbTe films was investigated. We choose 1173 K, 1223 K and 1253 K as our annealing temperatures. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) were carried out to characterize the deposited films. The sheet resistance of the samples was measured with a four-point probe. The experimental results show that annealing treatment has very big effect on the surface morphology, transmittance and resistivity of the Al/PbTe thin films..

Keywords

Al/PbTe, Thin film, Magnetron sputtering, Annealing temperature.

Citation

HUIFEN LU, WENTIAN CAO, SHUYUN WANG, WEI REN, HAO ZHUANG, The effect of annealing temperature on the characterization of Al/PbTe films, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 5, 10, October 2011, pp.1069-1071 (2011).

Submitted at: Aug. 27, 2011

Accepted at: Oct. 20, 2011