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Chemical and Thin-Film Strategies for New Transparent Conducting Oxides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

A. J. Freeman ,
K. R. Poeppelmeier ,
T. O. Mason ,
R. P. H. Chang  and
T. J. Marks
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Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have been known and employed technologically for more than 50 years, primarily in the form of doped single-cation oxides such as In2O3 and SnO2. Beginning in the 1990s, however, multi-cation oxide TCOs began to be developed in Japan (see the article by Minami in this issue and the references therein) and at the former Bell Laboratories. Since then, new TCO phases are being reported with increasing frequency as technological interest in this area heightens. At the same time, our fundamental understanding of the chemical and structural origins of transparent conductivity continues to expand and promises a pathway to dramatically improved materials for a host of applications. This article describes a collaborative, multi-investigator bulk an d thin-film research effort at Northwestern University aimed at the synthesis, characterization, and enhanced understanding of multi-cation (compound and solidsolution) TCOs, and provides a brief account of what we are discovering about this important class of materials.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 25 , Issue 8: Transparent Conducting Oxides , August 2000 , pp. 45 - 51
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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