Structural and electrical properties of In-doped vanadium oxide thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis

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The In-doped vanadium pentoxide nanostructures with different doping levels including 0, 10, 20 and 30 at.% were prepared by the spray pyrolysis technique. The prepared thin films were characterized by the x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The XRD results revealed that the films were crystalline in tetragonal phase. Increasing the In-doping level made the structure more disordered and decreased the crystallite size up to more than 50% for V2O5: In30at.% with respect to the pristine sample. The SEM results showed single phased nanorod- and nanobelt-shaped V2O5 structures with average diameters of 50-100 nm. The Hall effect measurements showed that all the involved films are n-type semiconductors whose resistance increases with In content; this also can be related to the enhanced structural disorder of the samples.

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  • Receive Date: 04 May 2019
  • Revise Date: 24 June 2019
  • Accept Date: 17 August 2019

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