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Integration of Zinc Oxide Thin Films with Polyimide-based Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Masashi Matsumura ,
Zvonimir Bandic  and
Renato P. Camata
Masashi Matsumura
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
Zvonimir Bandic
Affiliation:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA 95120, U.S.A.
Renato P. Camata
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Zinc oxide (ZnO) films were deposited on polyimide-based substrates by pulsed laser deposition. The ZnO films and the underlying polymer layers were studied using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) and Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopies. FTIR measurements in structurally well-characterized samples exhibiting all X-ray reflections of crystalline hexagonal ZnO show absorbance bands around 405 cm-1(Zn-O stretching vibration) and 1110 cm-1 (in-plane C-H vibrations on aromatic rings of polyimide). Observed shifts in both absorption features as a function of deposition temperatures can probably be attributed to thermal stress in the layers. PL measurements showed broad spectra centered around 3.35 eV from ZnO excitonic emission and a broader PL band from 2.7 to 3.1 eV defect complex emissions. The appearance of these peaks was consistent for depositions of ZnO on non-organic substrates, which indicates that the integration of ZnO thin films on polymer based substrate preserved the characteristic optical properties of ZnO.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 869: Symposium D – Materials, Integration and Technology for Monolithic Instruments , 2005 , D1.7
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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