Abstract
Recently there is tremendous interest in transparent conducting oxides(TCOs) in general and p-type TCOs in particular. Development of p-typetransparent conducting oxides are essential for the oxide electronics andits applications. Although significant advancement has taken place overthe past few years in this field, still a long way is to go to use thesematerials in actual devices. In my research work, I have tried to developsome route for the synthesis of two prototype p-type TCO materials,namely, NiO and CuAlO2. Also one of the major aims is to understand andexplain some experimental findings such as band gap narrowing in NiO dueto heavy doping etc. The synthesized films were characterized by varioustechniques like XRD, SEM, HRTEM, XPS etc. In this presentation, I shallemphasize on the synthesis and characterizations of nickel oxide thin filmas a p-type material.
