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ACS Omega
; 9(6): 7262-7268, 2024 Feb 13.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38371851
RESUMEN
Amorphous transparent conducting oxides (a-TCOs) have seen substantial interest in recent years due to the significant benefits that they can bring to transparent electronic devices. One such material of promise is amorphous ZnxSn1-xOy (a-ZTO). a-ZTO possesses many attractive properties for a TCO such as high transparency in the visible range, tunable charge carrier concentration, electron mobility, and only being composed of common and abundant elements. In this work, we employ a combination of UV-vis spectrophotometry, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy, and in situ scanning tunneling spectroscopy to investigate a 0.33 eV blue shift in the optical bandgap of a-ZTO, which we conclude to be due to quantum confinement effects.