A kind of high work function transparent conductive oxide film electrode and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The invention belongs to Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLEDs) technical field, be specifically related to a kind of high work function transparent conductive oxide film electrode and application response direct current magnetron sputtering process thereof and prepare high work function platinum, tungsten and mix indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the method for the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO).
Background technology
Organic electroluminescence device (OLEDs) has potential application in a lot of fields owing to have characteristics such as high efficiency, high brightness, wide visual angle, low-power consumption, self-luminous, response speed be fast, has therefore obtained people and has paid close attention to widely.And OLEDs has different requirements to the work function of yin, yang transparency electrode.Electrode material as negative electrode will have the injection that low surface work function is beneficial to electronics; Help improving the injection efficiency in hole when being complementary as the HOMO of its work function of electrode material of anode and anode organic material.And the performance of OLEDs and hole injection process have very confidential relation, use tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) to do the anode of OLEDs usually, and as the ITO of hole injection layer among the OLED, it plays a part crucial to the OLED performance.This is because in the OLED device, the work function of ITO (be typically 4.5~4.7eV) and not matching of organic layer (organic molecule or polymer) ionization gesture (about 5.4eV) cause between anode ITO and the hole transmission layer forming an energy barrier, this energy barrier directly influences the efficiency of transmission in charge carrier (hole).Therefore the electrode material as hole injection layer should have higher work function, reduce even elimination contact berrier, improve the injection efficiency of anode charge carrier to greatest extent, thereby improve the internal quantum efficiency of whole OLEDs, reduce the operating voltage of OLEDs device simultaneously, greatly improve efficient, life-span and the stability of OLEDs device.Therefore count to about 5.4eV as if further improving as the work content of hole injection layer, the injection efficiency in hole can further promote so, and the threshold voltage of device can reduce, and luminous efficiency can be improved.Therefore, the research that preparation has high work function transparent conductive oxide film electrode has very big using value, does not still have the correlative study report at present.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind ofly have industrial production, high work function platinum tungsten that technology stability is good is mixed indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO) and preparation method thereof.
The present invention proposes a kind of high work function transparent conductive oxide film electrode, and it is In that this electrode is mixed indium oxide altogether by platinum tungsten
2O
3: it is the two-layer composition of IWO, wherein In that Pt, W/ mix the tungsten indium oxide
2O
3: Pt, W bed thickness 0.1-10nm, IWO bed thickness 50-200nm, its work function is 4.5-5.5eV.
The preparation high work function platinum tungsten that the present invention proposes is mixed indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/method of mixing the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO) is to utilize the dc magnetron sputtering method of prior art to prepare high work function platinum tungsten to mix indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the double-deck transparent conductive film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO).Preparation of the present invention is to be target to mix tungsten indium metal mosaic target and platinum+mix tungsten indium metal mosaic target, with common glass is substrate, substrate temperature 200-380 ℃, by the reaction direct current magnetron sputtering process, make Ar ion beam irradiation target, with target as sputter, at sputtering current 100~250mA, operating pressure in the sputtering voltage 300~600V, reative cell is 2.5 * 10
-1~2.5 * 10
0Pa, O
2The dividing potential drop percentage composition P (O of reacting gas
2) [=P
O2/ (P
O2+ P
Ar] be 2.0~20.0%, under aforementioned preparation condition, at first plate electrically conducting transparent IWO film, sputtering time is 5~30 minutes, plates In then on the IWO film
2O
3: Pt, W film, sputtering time are 1-50 second, adopt the last platinum tungsten with high work function that forms of said method to mix indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO).
The above-mentioned tungsten indium metal mosaic target of mixing, i.e. even damascene tungsten wire in the aperture in the magnetron sputtering area on the metal indium circle target; Above-mentioned platinum+mix tungsten indium metal mosaic target is promptly being mixed even metal platinum filament or the platinized platinum placed on the tungsten indium metal mosaic target; Generally platinum filament or platinized platinum are got final product near tungsten wire place.
The present invention's preparation condition preferably is as follows:
Among the present invention, substrate temperature is 150-380 ℃.
Among the present invention, O
2The dividing potential drop of reacting gas is 10-15%.
Among the present invention, during reaction magnetically controlled DC sputtering plated film, sputtering condition is: sputtering current 120-200mA, sputtering voltage 400-450V.
Among the present invention, the 5-10 minute IWO thin film sputtering time of plating, on the IWO film, plate In then
2O
3: Pt, the sputtering time of W film are 1-40 second.
Among the present invention, by variable conductance valve with O
2Feed reative cell with Ar gas, variable conductance valve is the prior art that the magnetically controlled DC sputtering plated film feeds gas.
The high work function platinum tungsten that the inventive method makes is mixed indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/to mix the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode thickness of tungsten indium oxide (IWO) be 50-200nm, can be as required, by control sputter IWO film and In
2O
3: Pt, the W film time is controlled thickness and total film thickness separately.
Experimental result shows, the In that the method for utilization reaction magnetically controlled DC sputtering prepares on common glass substrates
2O
3: Pt, the W/IWO film has the characteristic of high work function, low-resistivity and high visible light transmissivity, and its photoelectric properties can be compared with the ITO product, and its work function (5.5eV) is higher than the work function (4.7eV) of ITO.The inventive method has IP prospecting, and technology stability is good, is that a kind of preparation high work function platinum tungsten is mixed indium oxide (In altogether
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film electrode of tungsten indium oxide (IWO), effective new method of novel photoelectric device premium properties is provided.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 mixes indium oxide (In altogether for the high work function platinum tungsten of the inventive method preparation
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the UV photoelectron spectroscopy figure (UPS) of double-deck transparent conductive oxide film of tungsten indium oxide (IWO) and single-layer and transparent conductive oxide IWO film.
Fig. 2 mixes indium oxide (In altogether for high work function platinum tungsten
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix the transmissivity figure of the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film of tungsten indium oxide (IWO).
Fig. 3 mixes indium oxide (In altogether for high work function platinum tungsten
2O
3: Pt, W)/mix double-deck transparent conductive oxide film of tungsten indium oxide (IWO) and ITO, the electrical property comparison diagram of ZAO film.
Embodiment
The specific embodiment of the present invention is as follows:
Embodiment 1, tungsten indium oxide target is mixed in preparation: with purity is that 99.99% In metal melting becomes the circle target, embedding purity in the aperture in the magnetron sputtering area of circle target symmetrically is that 99.99% 4wt% tungsten filament is prepared from, and target diameter is 51mm, and thickness is 2.5mm.Preparation platinum tungsten is mixed the indium oxide target altogether: mixing the Pt sheet of putting into 10wt% on the tungsten indium oxide target uniformly.Substrate is common slide, successively cleans in each 15 minutes through pure water, alcohol and acetone ultrasonic wave.
Substrate temperature: 380 ℃.
The spacing of target and substrate is fixed as 75mm.
Earlier reative cell is evacuated down to before the thin film deposition and is lower than 2 * 10
-3Pa, then by variable conductance valve with O
2Feed reative cell with Ar gas.Operating pressure in the reative cell is 2.5 * 10
-1Pa, sputtering current are 150mA, and sputtering voltage is 500V, control O
2Percentage composition P (the O of reacting gas
2) [=P
O2/ (P
O2+ P
Ar] be 14.0%.Film promptly prepares on the simple glass sheet.
Plating IWO film, sputtering time 8 minutes, film thickness are 120nm; On the IWO film, plate In then
2O
3: Pt, W film, sputtering time are 40 seconds, film thickness is 10nm; Total film thickness is 130nm.
Embodiment 2, and method makes high work function platinum tungsten under the following conditions and mixes indium oxide (In altogether similarly to Example 1
2O
3: Pt, W)/tungsten mixes the double-deck transparent conductive oxide film of indium oxide (IWO): sputtering current is 250mA, and sputtering voltage is 400V, by variable conductance valve with O
2Feed reative cell with Ar gas, the operating pressure in the reative cell is 1.0 * 10
0Pa, and control O
2Percentage composition P (the O of gas
2) be 4.0%.Plating IWO film, sputtering time 6 minutes, film thickness are 90nm; On the IWO film, plate In then
2O
3: Pt, W film, sputtering time are 10 seconds, film thickness is 2nm; Total film thickness is 90nm.
Utilize the thickness d of surface profiler (Kosaka ET3000 type) MEASUREMENTS OF THIN, at room temperature adopt the electric property of (Bio-RadMicroscience HL5500 Hall system) Hall test macro MEASUREMENTS OF THIN.Adopt the crystalline structure of X-ray diffractometer (XRD) (RigakuD/max-rB type, Cu K alpha ray source) analysed film; Adopt atomic force microscope (AFM) (Park Scientific Instrument, AutoProbe CP, USA) surface topography of analysed film; Utilize the content of energy dispersion X ray (EDX) analysed film; Utilize and do the work function that ex situ measures ultraviolet photoelectron spectrum (UPS) analysed film on the VG ESCA-Lab MK-II electron spectrometer, ultraviolet source is He I (hv=21.2eV).