Improving the performance of nickel-coated fluorine-doped tin oxide thin films by magnetic-field-assisted laser annealing》.pdf

Applied Surface Science 351 (2015) 113–118 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Surface Science j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: w w w. elsev /locate/aps usc Improving the performance of nickel-coated fluorine-doped tin oxide thin films by magnetic-field-assisted laser annealing Bao-jia Li a,b,∗ , Li-jing Huang a,b , Nai-fei Ren b,c , Xia Kong d , Yun-long Cai d , Jie-lu Zhang d a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China b Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Centerfor Photon Manufacturing Science and Technology,Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China c School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, PR China d Jiangsu Tailong Reduction Box Co. Ltd., Taixing 225400, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Nickel-coated fluorine-doped tin oxide (Ni/FTO) thin films were prepared by sputtering Ni layers on Received 21 February 2015 commercial FTO glass. The as-prepared Ni/FTO films underwent nanosecond pulsed laser annealing in Received in revised form 9 May 2015 an external magnetic field (0.4 T). The effects of the presence of magnetic field and laser fluence on Accepted 17 May 2015 surface morphology, crystal structure and photoelectric properties of the films were investigated. All the Available online 23 May 2015 films displayed enhanced compactness after magnetic-field-assisted laser annealing. It was notable that