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Transparent Conductive Oxides

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Transparent conducting oxides (GlossaryTerm

TCO

s) such as doped ZnO, In2O3 and SnO2 play important roles as transparent electrodes in commercial applications such as display and lighting devices. Although transparency and electrical conductivity are inherently conflicting, TCOs possess both properties simultaneously. To understand the fundamentals of TCOs, the essetials of the transparency and electrical conductivity are reviewed simply. Comprehension of the essentials enables us to develop novel TCOs following the principles of the materials design that carrier conduction paths should be constructed in wide-gap oxides. Because the electronic structure of oxides is considerably different between the conduction band and the valence band, procedures to form the conduction paths for electrons are in contrast to those for holes. In n-type TCOs, only isotropically spread ns0 orbitals of heavy cations such as Zn2+, In3+ and Sn4+ are necessary to form conduction paths for electrons at the bottom of the conduction band. In p-type TCOs, however, hybridization of orbitals between oxygen 2p6 orbitals and other orbitals such as Cu 3d10, Sn 5s2 and S 3p6 orbitals is essential to shape conduction paths for holes at the top of the valence band.

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  1. Materials Research Center of Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

    Hideo Hosono

  2. Dept. of Materials Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan

    Kazushige Ueda

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    Peter Capper

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Hosono, H., Ueda, K. (2017). Transparent Conductive Oxides. In: Kasap, S., Capper, P. (eds) Springer Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48933-9_58

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