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Application of nano-copper oxide film in optoelectronic devices, surface acoustic wave devices, solar cells

August 2,2020.
Application of Nano Copper Oxide Film

Nano copper oxide film has good transparent conductivity, piezoelectricity, photoelectricity, gas sensitivity, pressure sensitivity, and is easy to integrate with a variety of semiconductor materials. Due to these excellent properties, it has a wide range of uses and many potential applications, such as optoelectronic devices, surface acoustic wave devices, planar optical waveguides, transparent electrodes, transparent conductive films, piezoelectric devices, gas sensors, and buffer layers of GaN Wait.

(1) Application of nano-copper oxide film in optoelectronic devices

The direct band gap (3.37 eV) and higher exciton binding energy (60meV) of nano-copper oxide make it theoretically able to obtain efficient ultraviolet exciton emission and laser at room temperature. At the same time, the tunable band gap (2.8-4.2eV) can be obtained through the alloy film composed of CdO and MgO, covering the spectral range from red light to ultraviolet light, and it is expected to develop ultraviolet, green, blue and other light-emitting devices . In particular, the preparation of p-CuO paves the way for the application of nano-copper oxide in ultraviolet detectors, LEDs, LDs and other fields. At present, ZnO photoelectric devices that have been reported to be developed include ultraviolet detectors and light-emitting diodes.

(2) Application of nano-copper oxide film in surface acoustic wave devices

Nano-copper oxide film has excellent piezoelectric properties, good high-frequency characteristics, high electromechanical coupling number and low dielectric constant. It is an ideal material for surface acoustic wave (SAW), and with digital transmission and The increase of mobile communication information transmission requires SAW to exceed 1 GHz high frequency. Therefore, nano-copper oxide piezoelectric film has very broad development prospects in high-frequency filtering, resonators, optical waveguides and other fields. SAW requires nano-copper oxide film with c-axis preferred orientation, high resistivity, and high acoustic-electric conversion efficiency; and requires small crystal grains, flat surface, and few crystal defects to reduce the scattering of SAW and reduce loss.

(3) Application of nano-copper oxide film in solar cells

Nano-copper oxide film, especially AlO (CuO: Al) film, has excellent transparent and conductive properties. In Japan, Murata has produced low-loss 1.5 GHz RF SAW filter by epitaxial nano-copper oxide film on sapphire substrate. It is currently researching and developing 2GHz products. The transmittance in the wavelength range of visible light can reach more than 90%, which is comparable to ITO (In2O3: SnO2) film. Compared with ITO film, AlO film is non-toxic, rich in raw materials, cheap, and high stability (especially in hydrogen plasma). It is gradually becoming an alternative material for ITO film and is used in displays and solar energy. At present, nano-copper oxide films are mainly used as transparent electrodes and window materials for solar cells, and nano-copper oxide is less damaged by high-energy particle radiation, so it is particularly suitable for use in space. Croenen et al. used diffusion thermal plasma beam technology to prepare nano-copper oxide: Al thin film (ρ<10-3Ωcm, T>80%), which is used in amorphous amorphous silicon solar cells with an efficiency of 7.7%. Nano copper oxide treated with hydrogen plasma: Ga thin film is used as a window material for solar cells, and its efficiency can reach 13%.

(4) Application of nano-copper oxide film in gas sensor

Nano-copper oxide film materials have good gas-sensing characteristics. When the film is exposed to gases of different compositions and concentrations, its resistivity will change accordingly. Generally speaking, when reducing gas is adsorbed on the surface of the film, the resistivity of the film will decrease due to the reduction reaction. The higher the gas concentration, the lower the resistivity; on the contrary, when the oxidizing gas is adsorbed on the surface of the film, it is due to oxidation. The film resistivity will increase with the increase of gas concentration. According to this characteristic, various gas sensors can be manufactured. Nano-copper oxide is a typical surface-controlled gas-sensitive material. Generally, the smaller the particle size, the larger the specific surface area, the greater the oxygen adsorption capacity, and the higher the gas sensitivity of the material; in addition, noble metals are incorporated or coated with noble metals Catalytic coating can improve its sensitivity and selectivity. The nano-copper oxide film prepared by the sputtering method is very sensitive to H2, NO2, CO, and has a particularly high sensitivity to NO2 at low temperatures; the Al-doped nano-copper oxide film can be at 400℃ The sensitivity to CO reaches 61.6%.


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