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1N-SITU Ellipsometry Study of Pulsed Laser Deposited ZnO Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Shakil Pittal
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, and Center for Microelectronic and Optical Materials Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588–0511
L. A. McConville
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, and Center for Microelectronic and Optical Materials Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588–0511
N. J. Ianno
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, and Center for Microelectronic and Optical Materials Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588–0511
P. G. Snyder
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, and Center for Microelectronic and Optical Materials Research, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588–0511
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Abstract

Ellipsometry is normally used to characterize layered structures that have uniform properties laterally across the area of the probe beam. In this study, pulsed laser deposition of ZnO films was found to have highly nonuniform growth properties in the lateral directions. We were able to account for the effects of the nonuniform growth on in-situ ellipsometric data, by considering two dynamic growth models.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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